Team visits Gujarat to study food processing units

Agri Minister urges IFFCO to set up nano urea plant in State

As part of the State government’s plans to establish agriculture and food processing industries on a large scale, a delegation led by Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy visited a peanut butter making unit at Oran in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat on Saturday. During his Gujarat visit, the Minister stated that Telangana was known for quality and aflatoxin-free groundnut production after Gujarat, where peanut based food processing industries were in large numbers. Establishment of food processing industries would not only add value to the farm produce but would also increase the income of farmers, he said, adding that there is a huge demand in the international market for aflatoxin-free peanut. Earlier, Mr. Niranjan Reddy visited the IFFCO plant at Kalol in Gandhinagar district and felicitated scientist Ramesh Ralia, who developed liquid (nano) urea with the help of biotechnology. Mr. Ralia had worked in the US in the field of biotechnology for 7 years and returned to India to develop liquid urea after 3 years of hard work, he said.