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HYDERABAD
The Telangana authorities has planned to present earthy farming from the coming kharif play by encouraging farmers to instrumentality up farming successful the earthy farming methods successful 61,125 acres nether the National Mission connected Natural Farming.
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao interacted virtually with the farmers selected for taking up farming successful earthy methods connected Tuesday (March 17) and learnt astir their experiences with earthy methods, if any, and their problems. He stated that earthy farming was being encouraged successful the ngo mode arsenic determination was expanding request for earthy grown crops worldwide.
The Minister explained that it would beryllium implemented successful 489 clusters with a outgo of ₹42 crore and the farmers selected for the ngo would beryllium archetypal trained astatine immoderate identified Rythu Vedikas. Two persons each with cognition connected earthy farming and selling would beryllium appointed successful each clump to assistance the farmers and they would beryllium paid a monthly honorarium of ₹5,000.
To marque 3 basal requirements for taking up earthy farming — ‘beejamrutham, jeevamrutham and dashaparni’ (bio inputs - pesticides and fertilizers) — the authorities would acceptable up bio-input assets centres (BRCs) astatine a outgo of ₹1 lakh each to assistance farmers who are not successful a presumption to marque them connected their own.
The Minister stated that the 61,125 farmers selected for the ngo were handed implicit farmers’ kits astatine Rythu Vedikas connected Tuesday.
