Overview
- Top state leaders opened a three-day farmer outreach fair on the factory premises in Narmetta, using the event to promote oil palm adoption.
- Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is scheduled to inaugurate the factory on March 22 and to lay the foundation for a refinery estimated at Rs 40 crore.
- Former minister T. Harish Rao said local KLIP-linked reservoirs enabled the Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research to grant permission in 2021 for Siddipet cultivation.
- Rao credited past government support with rapidly expanding acreage to about 12,000 acres and claimed only around 2,000 more were added after the Congress took office.
- Officials urged farmers to register for subsidies, cited intercropping options in early years, and said the plant could generate up to 4 MW of power.