Horticulture has over the years emerged as an indispensable part of agriculture by offering a wide range of crop diversification choices to farmers and providing opportunities for sustaining large number of agro-industries, which have created employment opportunities to a semi-skilled and unskilled labour force. In fact, horticulture as a sub-sector is a revelation - benefiting from an impressive base has shown remarkable signs of progress in Telangana.
Horticulture is identified as one of the growth engines in the farm sector. It has been identified as one of the “focus areas” for development of the state. Being traditionally rich with horticulture resources, the state has favourable climatic conditions suiting various horticulture crops, these resources are further blended with latest technology and practices to meet the global demand for qualitative produce, thus making a favourable destination for global sourcing.