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The archetypal gathering connected the ‘Krushi Road Map’, an inaugural of the Government of India, aimed astatine achieving a 15% maturation successful Gross Value Added (GVA) successful agriculture was held connected Wednesday successful Andhra Pradesh.
The eight-member committee, led by Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, met astatine the Office of the Director of Agriculture, Mangalagiri.
The ‘Krushi Road Map’ was formulated with the enactment of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, pursuing a petition from Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, to accelerate cultivation maturation successful enactment with the State’s Swarna Andhra @2047 Vision.
On the occasion, Executive Officer and Special Chief Secretary (Agriculture & Cooperation) Budithi Rajasekhar, who chaired the meeting, said astir 35% of Andhra Pradesh’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) depended connected the superior sector. While continuing husbandman payment schemes, the State was focusing connected structural translation to heighten workplace incomes and worth addition.
He highlighted plans to make Rayalaseema arsenic a Global Horticulture Hub, with an further six lakh hectares projected to beryllium brought nether horticulture implicit the adjacent 3 years.
Discussions focused connected promoting millets, expanding pulses, oilseeds and lipid thenar cultivation, bringing fallow lands nether use, strengthening worth addition, supporting Farmer Producer Organizations with modern equipment, and improving drought resilience done micro-irrigation, rainwater harvesting and agrivoltaics.
The State besides sought Central enactment for infrastructure instauration and exertion adoption.
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal assured afloat Central assistance, stressing convergence of Central and State schemes, systematic readying and promotion of value-based crops to boost GVA and workplace incomes. The committee besides undertook tract visits successful Guntur district.
