Treat agriculture as a business: NAFSCOB chairman

Konduru Ravinder Rao, Chairman of National Federation of State Cooperative Banks (NAFSCOB), Telangana State Apex Bank (TSCAB) and district cooperative central bank (DCCB), has called upon the farmers to treat agriculture as a business enterprise to the reap the riches. “Agriculture is not just a substitute in this present world of competition and the farmers should treat it as a business enterprise. The farmers should double their income by cutting down expenditure in farming with the mechanisation, reducing the use of pesticides and fertilizers and by using organic fertilizers and also by cultivating commercial crops,” he pointed out.