| Post: | Minister of Agriculture and Co-operation |
| Incumbent: | Thummala Nageswara Rao |
| Incumbentsince: | 7 December 2023 |
| Department: | Department of Agriculture and Co-operation |
| Abbreviation: | A&C |
| Member Of: | State Cabinet |
| Reports To: | Governor of Telangana Chief Minister of Telangana Telangana Legislature |
| Appointer: | Governor of Telangana |
| Appointer Qualified: | on the advice of the Chief Minister of Telangana |
| Inaugural: | Pocharam Srinivas Reddy |
| Formation: | 2 June 2014 |
Department of Agriculture and Co-operation is a cabinet level ministerial post in the Government of Telangana. First held on 2 June 2014, this ministry has one of the important portfolios in the cabinet of the state. The incumbent Minister for the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation for the state of Telangana is Thummala Nageswara Rao.[1]
The department was created mainly to provide agricultural extension services to farmers and to transfer the latest technical knowledge to the farming community.[2] Telangana's agriculture department separated from Andhra Pradesh as part of Andhra Pradesh bifurcation.[3] [4] It aims to promote agricultural trade and to boost agricultural production and productivity in Telangana.
The economy of Telangana is largely dependent on agriculture and most people have taken farming as a profession. The podu system is used in some areas.
| Portrait | Minister | Term of office | Election | Party | Ministry | Chief Minister | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term start | Term end | Duration | ||||||||||
| 1 | Pocharam Srinivas Reddy | 2 June 2014 | 6 September 2018 | 2014 | Telangana Rashtra Samithi | Rao I | Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao | |||||
| 2 | Singireddy Niranjan Reddy | 19 February 2019 | 3 December 2023 | 2018 | Rao II | [5] [6] [7] | ||||||
| 3 | Thummala Nageswara Rao | 7 December 2023 | Incumbent | 2023 | Indian National Congress | Reddy | [8] [9] | |||||