The Telangana government will establish a 300 acre exclusive market for horticultural produce.
The market will come up at Kongar Kolan in Ranga Reddy district. It will be on the lines of Azadpur mandi in Delhi.
The state grows horticultural crops on 10 lakh acre out of the total cropped area of 144 lakh acre.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has asked the Horticulture Department to prepare a comprehensive Horticulture Cultivation Policy to bring in qualitative changes in the cultivation of horticultural crops.
The officials have been directed to visit other states to study and prepare the policy in the next three months. The state government will also appoint an extension officer in each mandal, exclusively to take care of the horticultural crops.