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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Tuesday directed the Agriculture and Horticulture Departments to hole a broad harvest calendar covering Kharif–Rabi–Kharif seasons to maximise benefits for farmers. He said harvesting and selling activities indispensable beryllium aligned with the calendar to guarantee amended returns to cultivators.
Reviewing paddy procurement and the selling of assorted harvest nutrient astatine a gathering held astatine the Secretariat, the Chief Minister asked officials to make consciousness among farmers astir suitable crops for each season, with a absorption connected prime betterment and due guidance during harvesting. Ministers K. Atchannaidu and Nadendla Manohar participated successful the reappraisal virtually.
Mr. Naidu called for strengthening acold concatenation infrastructure, improving entree to home and planetary markets and encouraging processing of cultivation produce. He besides suggested optimal usage of logistics facilities, including obstruction cargo, for transporting workplace nutrient crossed markets successful the country.
Directing officials to implicit paddy procurement wrong stipulated timelines successful each districts, the Chief Minister addressed slope guarantee-related issues successful North Andhra districts by speaking straight to the State Level Bankers’ Committee Convener during the review. He instructed banks to supply azygous slope guarantees crossed the State truthful that farmers bash not look inconvenience. Emphasising the Speed of Delivering Governance approach, helium warned millers against immoderate irregularities successful procurement.
Despite fiscal constraints, the State authorities has extended ₹184 crore successful subsidies to enactment mango farmers and is paying an further ₹4 per kg, a payment not offered by immoderate different State, the Chief Minister said. He urged pulp processing units to enactment responsibly and enactment farmers, informing of strict enactment against anyone deliberately causing losses to mango growers.
Mr. Naidu directed District Collectors to resoluteness farmers’ grievances wrong 10 days. He pointed retired that farmers successful Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are compelled to merchantability mangoes astatine prevailing marketplace prices, portion Andhra Pradesh is providing incentives to support its growers. The government, helium said, is moving to make a beardown ecosystem for Totapuri mango farmers by bringing successful much nutrient processing units and has instructed officials to organise a horticulture products accumulation successful January.
