Government, vide G.O.Ms.No.16 dt.25.02.2016 & G.O.Ms.No.103, dt.12.7.2016 of A&C(H&S) Dept., has issued orders for establishment of “Telangana State Horticulture Development Corporation Limited” to promote procurement, storage, processing and marketing of good quality Horticulture Crops and their products and also to facilitate implementation of water saving technologies like Micro Irrigation, Modern Machinery etc. Govt. has also accorded permission for Registration of Telangana State Horticulture Development Corporation Limited under the companies Act, 2013. Accordingly, registration has been completed on 15.07.2016 with Registration No.110936.
Objectives
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The Horticulture Corporation shall aim to enhance the overall income of the farmers by intervening in promoting Agriculture & Horticulture processing of fruits, vegetables, flowers and spices at various levels of crop production and processing.
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The Corporation shall promote the availability of clean and safer (un-adulterated) food products like chilli powder, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, etc., directly to the people for their daily consumption.
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The Corporation shall work in consultation and in coordination with Department of Horticulture, Agriculture, MGNREGS, RKVY, MIDH, Marketing, MARKFED and other related and relevant Government projects.
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The Horticulture Corporation shall take up the Post-Harvest Interventions viz., Cold Chain System and procurement, Pre-cooling chambers, Pack Houses, Cold storage centers and total Supply Chain Management from the farmer to the final consumer.
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The Corporation shall aim at adopting latest mechanization technology in Harvesting and Post Harvesting interventions. The corporation shall explore the possibilities of collaborating with private industries and existing food parks in PPP mode.
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The corporation shall aim at export of the Vegetables, Fruits etc., to neighbouring States and other countries.
The Corporation shall take up the marketing of all Horticulture crops of farmers.
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The Corporation shall also promote Agri/Horticulture produce by
taking up value addition activities such as Grading, Processing,
Packing, Marketing of the finished commodities particularly by
establishing a special brand of its own.
Board of Directors of TGHDCL
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1. Sri.
M.Raghunandan Rao
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Chairman
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2. Smt.
Shaik Yasmeen Basha
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Vice Chairman & Managing Director
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3. Sri.
B. Gopi
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Director Agriculture
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4. Sri.
A.Baghwan
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Director Research, SKLTSHU
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5. Smt. G.
Laxmi Bai
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Director Marketing
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6. Sri.
Ramulu
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Managing Director TSAGROs
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7. Smt. J.
Shailaja
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Dy. Secretary to Finance Department
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8. Sri. R.
P. Naidu
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Asst. Manager, APEDA
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NABARD has sanctioned a term loan of Rs.874.00
crores under NIDA for implementation of Micro Irrigation Project
in the State with approved project cost of Rs.1092.00 crores to
cover an area of 1,26,000 ha. during 2016-17 & 2017-18. Further
NABARD has accorded permission for extension of the project for
2018-19 also and coverage of addl. area of 13,000 ha.
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Govt. vide G.O.Rt.No.6, dt:03.01.2017 of A&C (H&S)
Dept. has accorded permission to borrow the loan from NABARD and
given guarantee for repayment of loan covering principle and
interest with budgetary support till the period of total
outstanding loan along with interest is cleared, accordingly MoU
has been entered with NABARD.
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The project was implemented by making functional
arrangement with TSMIP and implemented the project as per the
TSMIP guidelines in vogue.
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The project has been successfully completed as per
the time lines indicated by the NABARD i.e. physical completion
of the project by 30.09.2018 and disbursement of loan by
31.03.2019.
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The total loan amount of Rs.874.00 crores was
utilised along with state matching share of Rs.126.00 crores and
covered an area of
1,50,462.10 Ha. covering 1,37,427 No. of farmers.
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Out of the total area covered, an extent of 106845
ha. (90371 No of farmers) was covered under Drip Irrigation and
43550.17 ha.(46984 No of farmers) was covered under Sprinklers.
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The KFW, German Team who have funded to NABARD has
inspected the implementation of the project and appreciated the
way the project has been prepared, structured, documented and
commitment of the officials for implementing such a large scale
project across the state.
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The transparency and accountability systems adopted
in implementation of the project was also appreciated by GOI.
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NABCONS the subsidiary unit of NABARD who was
entrusted with 3rd party verification and impact assessment of
the MIP project has submitted the report stating that the
project has made great impact on increase of yield (52%) and
income of the farmers (53%) besides saving of water, power,
labour, fertilizers etc. equivalent to Rs.9455.4 cr.
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Further, an amount of Rs.199.90 Crores was received
from TSMIP for implementation of PMKSY-PDMC-Micro irrigation
during 2018-19 through TGHDCL
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Based on the completed installations and approved
proceedings received from the districts, so far an amount of
Rs.160.46 cr. was released covering 28579.77 Ha. pertaining to
27419 farmers.
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Govt. has nominated the Director of Horticulture,
Telangana, Hyderabad as Nodal department / agency for
implementation of Agriculture Export Policy in Telangana State
with an aim to enhance and facilitate the Agri exports through
Exporters, FPOs and Farmers thereby providing remunerative price
to farming community.
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Further, a state level monitoring committee under
chairmanship of Chief Secretary was constituted to monitor and
oversee the implementation of AEP in the State and 13 potential
District Collectors nominated as crop cluster nodal officers for
implementation of AEP at District level in the 1st phase vide
ref.3rd cited.
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Since the Govt. of Telangana has designated the
Department of Horticulture as the Nodal Dept. for implementation
of AEP, there is a need to develop sufficient infrastructure for
export and also to form FPOs in the state.
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In TGHDCL, one of the objective is
“Organization and promotion of farmers producer
organization to strengthen the Pre-harvesting and post
harvesting interventions”.
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By considering the importance of FPOs and AEP for facilitating collective procurement and marketing through business plan and it is proposed to encourage and facilitate the farmers for the formation of 180 crop specific FPOs i.e., Mango(60), Chillies (60) and Turmeric (60) in 13 potential districts considering the surplus production in the state
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On pilot basis, TGHDCL
has decided to promote 84 FPOs (32 Mango, 29 Turmeric, 23 Chillies) in 13 Districts (newly formed districts). Out of which, 74 FPOs are registered under Companies Act 2013.
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Further Mango farmers are being registered in the
Hortinet (APEDA website) to facilitate marketing linkage between
farmers and exporters.
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Training/ sensitization programmes to farmers &
field functionaries are being organised for formation of FPOs on
pre and postharvest interventions like registration procedures,
dissemination of package of practices, implementation of GAP,
traceability, disease surveillance, processing and value
addition, export standards and market linkages etc.
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Popularized Baneshan and Himayath Varieties of
Mangoes of Kollapur and Jagithyal regions by conduct of sale
counters at Telangana Bhavan, New Delhi during May, 2017.
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Mangoes were procured from the farmers directly
and paid premium price i.e. 25% higher than the market price.
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Mangoes were minimally processed, ripened in
ripening chambers (Carbide free) and sent to New Delhi.
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About 14.37 Mts mangoes were sold and established
the brand image to Telangana Mangoes.
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Participated in Mango Buyer seller meet organized
by APEDA at Mumbai and displayed potential varieties i.e. Baneshan
and Hiamyath varieties to popularize and explore the possibilities
to export the Telangana Mangoes.
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Virtual Buyer Seller meet was organized during 2021 Mango season in collaboration with APEDA and created market avenues to Telangana Mango across the country during COVID pandemic.
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Buyer seller meet was organized during 2022 Mango season in collaboration with APEDA at Hyderabad and created market avenues to Telangana Mango across the country and increased exports.
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