The Telangana government has requested the Centre to permit the movement of raw (unprocessed) seed produced in different States to Hyderabad and other places in Telangana for their processing and storage and to make them available to the farming community across the country for the next kharif season. In a letter addressed to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday, Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy explained that there were about 400 seed companies operating from Telangana and they have their processing plants and storage points here. Seed of various crops produced in the neighbouring as well as far-off States would start reaching Telangana from late-February every year.