CM calls for change in crop cultivation strategies to suit El Nino conditions

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to alteration harvest cultivation strategies to suit the conditions arising from El Nino, and asked them to analyse the scope for harvest diversification.

At a reappraisal gathering connected the agriculture, horticulture and aqua sectors astatine the Secretariat connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026), Mr. Naidu told officials to usher farmers connected increasing agricultural, commercialized and horticultural crops, and to absorption connected shifting to earthy farming connected a overmuch larger scale.

He said farmers should accommodate to the concern arising from the increasing planetary absorption connected the certification of seeds and of agriculture and horticulture produce.

The Chief Minister said farmers should beryllium educated connected technological cultivation methods and helped to woody with problems successful increasing chilli, baccy and mangoes, peculiarly Totapuri.

He told officials to gully up plans for increasing pulses, which were successful precocious request successful the market, to payment farmers, and to clasp meetings with aqua farmers and aqua provender manufacturers to resoluteness their problems.

Agriculture Minister K. Atchannaidu, Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad and different elder officials were present.