Overview

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the new office, release its logo and address local turmeric growers on June 29.
• Union Minister Piyush Goyal will outline the board’s action plan on support price mechanisms, value-added processing and export strategies during the event.
• Nizamabad secured the board headquarters over competing bids from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and other states in a move hailed as a win for the region’s farmers.
• P. Gangadhar Reddy, a member of the local farming community, has been appointed as the first chairman of the National Turmeric Board.
• The ceremony will include the unveiling of former Congress leader D. Srinivas’s statue at the request of his son, MP D. Aravind.