State-level Response Team formed to control coffee berry borer infestation in Araku

The Andhra Pradesh authorities has constituted a State-level Response Team to power the berry borer infestation successful the java plantations successful Araku Valley of Alluri Sitharama Raju district.

The squad comprises of Special Chief Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation arsenic the Chairman, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, A.P., arsenic the Member Secretary and Director of Horticulture, CEO & Secretary of Coffee Board, CEO, Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Director, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Department, VC & MD of Girijan Cooperative Corporation(GCC), VC of Dr. YSR Horticulture University, Director of Agriculture and Director, Central Coir Research Institute (CCRI) arsenic Members.

The Response Team has been tasked with aboriginal recognition of the berry borer infestation successful the coffee-growing regions successful the State and sensitising the district-level and section containment committees to instrumentality up contiguous survey of java plantations and different monitoring works.

It should besides suggest semipermanent strategies for pest management, including imaginable security sum oregon fiscal assistance schemes for farmers.