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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has asserted that the NDA authorities is committed to payment of the farmers, and owed precedence has been fixed to guarantee Minimum Support Prices (MSP) to assorted crops.
Participating successful the 125th commencement day celebrations of Acharya N.G. Ranga, astatine Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) astatine Lam successful Guntur territory connected Friday, Mr. Naidu said the agriculture assemblage achieved a maturation complaint of 16.60% successful GSDP betwixt 2014-2019, and it dropped to 10% successful 2019-24.
The conjugation authorities accrued it to 15.45% in 2024-25. In spite of fiscal constraints, the authorities cleared dues to the farmers that were piled up during the YSRCP rule. In 2024-25, the authorities purchased 55.79 lakh MT of paddy for ₹12,857 crore.
Payments were made into the farmers’ accounts wrong 24 hours. Also, a sum of ₹7,000 was fixed to each husbandman nether the Annadata Sukhibhava scheme.
Mr. Naidu said the authorities could importantly mitigate the damages caused by Cyclone Montha to the workplace assemblage with concerted efforts by the authorities machinery and by utilizing precocious technologies. In 2014-19, a sum of ₹20,000 had been paid per hectare to farmers towards cyclone damages. It was reduced to ₹17,000 by the YSRCP Government. Now it was accrued to ₹25,000. The conjugation authorities paid 95% of the harvest security upon coming to power, helium observed.
Mr. Naidu said the authorities saw to it that 95% of the reservoirs were afloat during the caller spate of rains done businesslike h2o management, and it could flooded drought successful Rayalaseema.
He promised to widen each imaginable enactment to the tenant farmers and called for promotion of integrated farming. He recalled that helium had a peculiar enslaved with Acharya N.G. Ranga and was inspired by his writings.
He pointed retired that the Hyderabad Agricultural University was named aft him (Acharya N.G. Ranga) and the Agricultural University successful the caller State of Andhra Pradesh was besides fixed his sanction successful designation of his stellar contributions to the agriculture sector.
“Acharya N.G. Ranga led the Andhra Peasant Movement from the beforehand and was a large Parliamentarian. He was a multifaceted personality, whom people, particularly farmers, volition ne'er forget,” Mr. Naidu stated.
Agriculture Minister K. Atchannaidu, MP Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, officials from ANGRAU and others were present.
