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In a important boost to the State’s agriculture sector, 4 districts of Andhra Pradesh — Annamayya, Sri Sathya Sai, Anantapur, and Alluri Sitharama Raju — are among the 100 ‘Aspirational Agricultural Districts’ selected nether the Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY) announced successful the Union Budget 2025–26.
Addressing the media successful Rayachoti connected Friday, Lanka Dinakar, Chairman of the Twenty-Point Programme Implementation Committee hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for recognising the imaginable of Andhra Pradesh and allocating ₹24,000 crore per annum for six years for the implementation of the project.
Mr. Dinakar besides thanked Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for his important relation successful the inclusion of the task for the State.
“The scheme, which covers 100 low-productivity districts each implicit India, aims to heighten cultivation output, diversify harvest patterns, galvanise irrigation, amended post-harvest management, and guarantee amended entree to workplace credit,” Mr. Dinakar said, adding it would integrate 36 Central schemes from 11 Ministries with related State programmes, focusing connected 73 improvement indicators, of which 46 would beryllium measurable outcomes.
Mr. Dinakar said Annamayya territory was selected owed to its unfavourable climatic conditions and agrarian backwardness. He said coordinated efforts betwixt the Centre and the State, and the ‘double motor government’ were important to make specified regions.
Committees astatine the district, State, and nationalist levels would show the scheme’s progress. The PMDDKY would beryllium formally launched connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) by Mr. Narendra Modi, helium said.
