The Vice-Chairman of State Planning Board S. Niranjan Reddy has requested the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to sanction a research programme on groundnut cultivated during rabi at the Regional Agricultural Research Station at Palem in Mahabubnagar district because the crop area in the district in that season was the highest in Telangana.
In a letter to Mr. Rao, Mr. Reddy said there was no research on groundnut produced in rabi in Telangana. The Palem station earlier took up research in groundnut of kharif in the combined State but the programme was shifted to the agricultural research station at Kadiri due to drastic decline in area under cultivation and yield.
