Telangana government is planning to promote one of the popular tuber crops tapioca cassava, karra pendalam, with a view to encourage farmers to diversify from water-intensive paddy crop and cultivate it as a commercial horticultural crop in the irrigated-dry method. Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy along with a team of officials visited the Tapioca and Castor Research Station of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University at Yethapur near Salem on Tuesday to study the cultivation of crop. He was accompanied by Managing Director of Telangana State Seed Development Corporation K. Keshavulu and others.