Pawan calls for efforts to increase green cover in A.P. to 50% by 2047

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Forest & Environment K. Pawan Kalyan has said that a people has been acceptable to summation the greenish screen successful the State to 50% by 2047.

Emphasising that the Horticulture Department plays a cardinal relation successful achieving that goal, Mr. Pawan called upon the authorities departments to determination guardant successful coordination with the Forest Department. 

Addressing a reappraisal gathering connected the activities undertaken to summation the greenish screen successful the State, astatine the Secretariat connected Wednesday, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said the authorities has contemplated to make the ‘Great Green Wall of Andhra Pradesh’ arsenic a surviving ecological shield comprising mangroves, shelterbelt plantations and inland vegetation on the seashore to withstand climate-induced risks. 

Collective efforts were required to execute the goal, helium said, and stressed the request for the horticulture and different departments to hole plans to boost ungraded fertility and farmers’ income. 

Mr. Pawan Kalyan besides discussed with the officials the steps taken to support the situation and biodiversity. He suggested that farmers should beryllium encouraged to follow intercropping and that consciousness beryllium raised astir the harmful interaction of synthetic chemic fertilizers. 

Special Chief Secretary (Agriculture & Horticulture) B. Rajasekhar, Rythu Sadhikara Samstha Executive Director T. Vijay Kumar, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests P.V. Chalapathi Rao and Natural Farming Society Director Srinivasulu were among those contiguous successful the meeting.