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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Thursday (December 18) lauded SPSR Nellore District Collector Himanshu Shukla’s conception of ‘Champion Farmers’, calling it an innovative inaugural and a bully experiment. He congratulated Mr. Himanshu Shukla for designing this programme to straight payment the farmers by comprehensively connecting each the departments.
On the 2nd time of the Collectors’ Conference held nether the chairmanship of the Chief Minister astatine the Secretariat successful Amaravati, Mr. Himanshu Shukla presented the details of the ‘Champion Farmers’ programme, explaining h2o reserves, harvest patterns and the measures taken to summation farmers’ income.
“Champion Farmers programme has been launched with an purpose of bringing broad reforms successful the cultivation assemblage of the district. Although the country nether cultivation has decreased successful the past fewer years, the concern has changed from 2024. This year, determination is 75 TMC of h2o retention astatine 100-meter level successful Somasila Reservoir.”
“Under these circumstances, the main nonsubjective of the ‘Champion Farmers’ programme is to redirect the farmers towards alternate crops. This programme besides addresses issues specified arsenic shortage of cultivation labourers, deficiency of workplace mechanisation, excessive usage of fertilizers and pesticides, deficiency of marketplace linkages and deficiency of concern successful nutrient processing and worth addition,” helium said.
One ‘Champion Farmer’ has been identified successful each colony crossed 727 panchayats of the district, and helium volition enactment arsenic a relation exemplary and ambassador for that village, the Collector said, adding that these Champion Farmers volition beryllium trained to usage the latest cultivation techniques and continuously guided by the section Village Agricultural Assistants (VAAs) for the adjacent mates of years.
The Chief Minister lauded Mr. Himanshu Shukla for designing the programme to efficiently utilise the quality resources. He said, “The self-help groups should beryllium formed done ‘Champion Farmers’ oregon they should beryllium transformed into MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises). There is simply a request to widen these policies to horticultural crops arsenic well, not conscionable seasonal crops.”
“The intent of programmes similar ‘Rythanna Mee Kosam’ is besides to supply eventual payment to the farmers,” helium said, advising the Collectors of each districts to rise consciousness astir the authorities policies for the payment of the farmers done Rythu Seva Kendra (RSKs) and Swarna Andhra Vision Action Plan Units.
“All measures should beryllium taken to marque cultivation mechanisation clusters easy accessible to the farmers arsenic good arsenic to trim the cultivation costs and maximise their incomes,” the CM suggested.
