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Now, degree must for pesticide, fertiliser traders: Govt direction
In its effort to help boost agricultural sector, the State government has decided to award licences to fertiliser and pesticide traders only if they possess a degree in any relevant subject.
Nalgonda: In its effort to help boost agricultural sector, the State government has decided to award licences to fertiliser and pesticide traders only if they possess a degree in any relevant subject.
As per the government direction, traders who want to obtain license to sell pesticides or fertilisers must have a degree in Agriculture, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Botany or Zoology.
According to official sources, there are 1,050 fertiliser and pesticide shops across Nalgonda, Suryapet and Yadadri districts. From now onwards, the licences of these traders will be renewed only if they have a degree in any of the related subjects.
For applying a new licence, the traders should produce their certificates. As a result, old as well as new traders are now searching for degree holders to engage them on contract basis.
According to officials, degree has been made mandatory to run pesticide shops as farmers do not have proper knowledge on type of seeds to sow in particular soil and type and quantity and time to spray pesticides.
These new traders would be able to guide the farmers in these issues, they said. Most of the farmers follow traders’ guidelines rather than agriculture officials.
Considering all these factors and other issues at ground level with regard to farming community, the government had made degree qualification mandatory for fertiliser and pesticide traders, the officials added.
