Telangana bets big on oil palm to cut $19 billion vegetable oil imports

[psycopk]

2 hours ago, Android_Halwa said:

Paddy nundi kastha divert ayi...commercial and cash crops ki alavatu padithe naa yaldi telangana villages anni golden villages ayitayi...

Okappudu sunflower, castor oil seeds baaga esetollu...iyalarepu aithe sunflower aithe chusinattu kuda gurtu ledu ekada kuda..

Ee matram daniki bokka tg ne avasaram ledu.. ollu baddakam lekunda pakkodi meda padi edava kunda evadi pani vadu chesukunte chalu

[Android_Halwa]

8 minutes ago, psycopk said:

Ee matram daniki bokka tg ne avasaram ledu.. ollu baddakam lekunda pakkodi meda padi edava kunda evadi pani vadu chesukunte chalu

Atla edichinanduke kada Andhra’s Ki kuda oka identity vachindi…atarvata Andhra Pradesh ane state migilindi…maaku bokka or pedda bokka, we are fine..

[psycopk]

2 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

Atla edichinanduke kada Andhra’s Ki kuda oka identity vachindi…atarvata Andhra Pradesh ane state migilindi…maaku bokka or pedda bokka, we are fine..

Lol u wish.. 

[kevinUsa]

1 hour ago, argadorn said:

5 years antunavu mari mango ayina ye kaya ayina antay time padythadhi vayya  money unnoduu veyyali normal people need to wait until proven in telangana anni kavali antay ela that is how the world is .. it is for rich people 

10 acres mango plantation with 1000 trees and with 7 year trees how Much do u get in a good season ??

[AndhraneedSCS]

4 hours ago, JackSeal said:

If you take care of plantation very well you will get harvest in 5 years. So 5 years you have to feed it without any income from it. Intercrop annaru kani due to pests farmers hardly seeing profits.

1-2 acre unna small farmer next 5 years ela survive avvalo vadilesi Dora cheppina sweet words and subsidy ke padipothunnaru and by the time they realize it’s too late. They themselves are surviving on schemes inka palm oil plantation em take care chestharu ?

first 3 years you can grow other crops. Ma side they grow it with Sugarcane for 2-3 years. 

[hyperbole]

5 hours ago, JackSeal said:

Aa dora gadu chesina wrong propaganda valla palm oil ante free money anukoni fertile lands are getting converted into palm farms. Due to which huge pest infestation in my village. Chebthe vinakunda ma vallu kuda subsidy ani 10acres ke saplings kosam apply chesaru… baga pressure mount chesi educate chesthe venakki thaggaru but still oka 5 acres pettaru… every season income vache land went dormant now

Instant gratification ante ela man, you sow you reap benefits, pest problem is real but south East Asian countries are printing money with exports now, for a country the size of India the demand is going to go up but not come down.

Like every and anything it is a demand supply thing, you or anyone can only anticipate and plan positively, and it is upto what you want. Government is not forcing you, they are trying and helping people to diversify so that there is enough supply for everything than oversupply paddy

[MRI]

20 hours ago, argadorn said:

5 years antunavu mari mango ayina ye kaya ayina antay time padythadhi vayya  money unnoduu veyyali normal people need to wait until proven in telangana anni kavali antay ela that is how the world is .. it is for rich people 

bro, palm oil is unhealthy antaaru kada.. restaurants annitilo avey vadataru!! identi mari??

[FLraja]

22 hours ago, hyperbole said:

Telangana bets big on oil palm to cut $19 billion vegetable oil imports

 

The recent rally in palm oil prices has more than doubled prices of fresh fruit bunches, which farmers sell to oil mills. (Bloomberg)

Pullarao Daravathu and thousands of fellow farmers from Telangana in India's south are busy planting oil palms as their home state aims to add more area under the controversial crop within four years than the entire country has in decades.

Telangana is targeting 2 million additional acres under oil palm cultivation in the next four years, and is going to great lengths to achieve this goal - from building large dams and irrigation canals to importing millions of germinated sprouts.

Generous government subsidies and bumper profit potential compared to other crops are also encouraging farmers like Daravathu to shift to oil palms.

"Oil palm is giving more than 200,000 Indian rupees ($2,536) per acre return to farmers who planted the crop some years back. In rice, I am struggling to earn 40,000 rupees even after putting in lots of effort," said Daravathu, who was planting oil palm on his 5-acre farm at Sathupally, nearly 300 km (186 miles) east of Hyderabad, the state capital.

The recent rally in palm oil prices has more than doubled prices of fresh fruit bunches, which farmers sell to oil mills.

For years, price volatility, water scarcity and a gestation period of nearly four years limited oil palm plantation in India to less than 1 million acres, mostly in coastal Andhra Pradesh, the state that Telangana was carved out of in 2014.

But Telangana, which occupies an inland region on the Deccan Plateau, is now keen to emerge as India's main palm oil hub, with an area target that would place the state as the fifth largest oil palm grower globally – from a negligible base currently.

The drive could reduce India's mammoth vegetable oil imports, which cost the country a record $18.9 billion a year ago and widened the national trade deficit.

India fulfils two-thirds of its vegetable oil demand through imports of around 14 million tonnes annually, including around 8.5 million tonnes of palm oil.

The federal government is keen to increase palm oil output to slash those expensive imports, which lifted inflation this year to multi-year highs after top supplier Indonesia abruptly halted exports.

"In the next four years, most of the palm planting would be done, and after 7-8 years Telangana could be producing 4 million tonnes of palm oil," L Venkatram Reddy, director of Horticulture at the state government told Reuters.

India currently produces less than 300,000 tonnes of palm oil and relies on imports from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to fulfil its requirements.

Even if Telangana manages to grow oil palm on only 1 million acres and produces 2 million tonnes of palm oil, it would be a huge achievement, said Chava Venkateswara Rao of Godrej Agrovet Ltd, the country's biggest palm oil producer.

Until last year, the country was adding around 35,000 acres under oil palm every year.

Water first

Some areas in Telangana have sufficient water for thirsty oil palms thanks to the rivers such as the Godavari, Krishna and Bhima. But many pockets lacked sufficient water to cater to the oil palm's need of up to 265 litres per tree per day.

To overcome that, the state has built massive lift irrigation projects and a canal network that is now allowing farmers to plant oil palms across most of the state.

"We used to face water scarcity in summer season. Now, with the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project, we have ample water for oil palm," said farmer Bollampalli Venkateshwar Rao, who planted oil palms on 12 acres.

The Kaleshwaram irrigation project, which is nearly complete, cost the state 1.15 trillion rupees ($14.44 billion).

Authorities are giving permission to cultivate oil palms only after farmers install water-conserving micro irrigation systems, said Reddy, adding "The central and state government's subsidies are covering almost the entire cost of drip irrigation system."

The shift towards oil palm from paddy rice and other crops could help the state to bring down annual paddy procurement by around 2.5 million tonnes, and trim the electricity bill for lift irrigation projects by 15 billion rupees as drip-fed oil palms need less water than paddy, Reddy said.

Ravi Mathur, who heads the Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research (IIOPR), a government-backed body spearheading the oil palm push, said the lift irrigation project has made oil palm planting feasible in areas previously unsuitable for the crop because of water scarcity.

Planting Material Scarcity

While thousands of farmers are keen to shift to oil palm, the availability of seedlings is limited, and preparing them is a lengthy process which takes almost a year.

Companies operating in Telangana imported 12.5 million sprouts last year and made seedlings for around 200,000 acres this year, said an official with the state-run TS Oilfed, the country's biggest importer of germinated sprouts

The state is aiming to import 15 million sprouts this year - mainly sourced from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Costa Rica - and 50 million next year to achieve the target, he said.

But only handful of companies are supplying germinated sprouts.

"There is sudden surge in demand following a rally in palm oil prices. Companies are not able to supply as much we need this year," said Sougata Niyogi, a top official at Godrej Agrovet. "The supply situation would become more comfortable next year."
 

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/telangana-bets-big-on-oil-palm-to-cut-19-billion-vegetable-oil-imports-11659494205094.html

Correction its central govt scheme and push to stop imports and reduce deficit.tg is no special or doing nothing additional to central subsidies 

[hyperbole]

47 minutes ago, FLraja said:

Correction its central govt scheme and push to stop imports and reduce deficit.tg is no special or doing nothing additional to central subsidies 

It’s both actually, additionally it is gaining prominence in TG north districts is because of abundant water availability from KLIS, they are even going beyond their means to import seedlings from south east asian countries. 
 

To support farmers, Government may give subsidy of Rs.36,000 per acre

1. Year 1: Rs 26,000 per acre
2. Year 2: Rs 5,000 per acre
3. Year 3: Rs 5,000 per acre

11. The subsidy will be paid directly into the accounts of the farmers under the DBT mode like in Rythu Bandhu

12. Total funds required will be Rs 780 Cr during 2022-23, Rs 1,970 Cr in 2023-2024, Rs 3,100 Cr in 2024-25, Rs 850 Cr in 2025-26 and Rs 500 Cr in 2026-27. (See Table below)

13. Government of India offers subsidy support under National Food Security Mission in the Centre (60%) State (40%) ratio which during the current year is Rs 21600 and Rs 14400 respectively. The support received from GoI will be adjusted to the State Government account

[Telugodura456]

17 hours ago, hyperbole said:

Instant gratification ante ela man, you sow you reap benefits, pest problem is real but south East Asian countries are printing money with exports now, for a country the size of India the demand is going to go up but not come down.

Like every and anything it is a demand supply thing, you or anyone can only anticipate and plan positively, and it is upto what you want. Government is not forcing you, they are trying and helping people to diversify so that there is enough supply for everything than oversupply paddy

intant gratification aa ? will you wait for 5 years for your paycheck when you are 40 ? dora kaburlu bhale untai.

[hyperbole]

12 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

intant gratification aa ? will you wait for 5 years for your paycheck when you are 40 ? dora kaburlu bhale untai.

4 year gestation period lo GOI/State governments yearly payments istunnadi, you can do inter crops during these 4 years. Current prices lo 2 lakhs/acre/years ee crop paina vatstayi?

[argadorn]

2 hours ago, MRI said:

bro, palm oil is unhealthy antaaru kada.. restaurants annitilo avey vadataru!! identi mari??

yup not healthy but infia lo vadutharuuu 

[FLraja]

34 minutes ago, hyperbole said:

It’s both actually, additionally it is gaining prominence in TG north districts is because of abundant water availability from KLIS, they are even going beyond their means to import seedlings from south east asian countries. 
 

To support farmers, Government may give subsidy of Rs.36,000 per acre

1. Year 1: Rs 26,000 per acre
2. Year 2: Rs 5,000 per acre
3. Year 3: Rs 5,000 per acre

11. The subsidy will be paid directly into the accounts of the farmers under the DBT mode like in Rythu Bandhu

12. Total funds required will be Rs 780 Cr during 2022-23, Rs 1,970 Cr in 2023-2024, Rs 3,100 Cr in 2024-25, Rs 850 Cr in 2025-26 and Rs 500 Cr in 2026-27. (See Table below)

13. Government of India offers subsidy support under National Food Security Mission in the Centre (60%) State (40%) ratio which during the current year is Rs 21600 and Rs 14400 respectively. The support received from GoI will be adjusted to the State Government account

Correction, it doesn’t need water to cultivate ( excess water kills plants so KLS has opposite effect) so tg lost lot of suitable land 

state govt not giving a penny subsidy 

its the same suitable land exists before tg formed 

nothing new here to advertise, central govt is taking care of everything like subsidy , seeds etc..

[FLraja]

59 minutes ago, hyperbole said:

4 year gestation period lo GOI/State governments yearly payments istunnadi, you can do inter crops during these 4 years. Current prices lo 2 lakhs/acre/years ee crop paina vatstayi?

Did they give you? 
can you buy my crop for 1.5 lac per acre and you can make 50k per acre profit? Gaali matalu voddu , maaku already vunay sanka nakistunnaru barely profitable with pain. Issue is with labor , tempadaniki ravatle evadu kuda

[MRI]

54 minutes ago, argadorn said:

yup not healthy but infia lo vadutharuuu 

not healthy and also very negative on environment antaru.. enduko ivi manaki ippudu..