Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy chairing a evaluate assembly at his camp workplace close to Vijayawada on Monday.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has requested the officials of the Agriculture Department to make preparations to disburse the YSR Rythu Bharosa advantages to the eligible farmers in May, earlier than the graduation of the kharif season. He wished them to take steps to clear the dues of ₹33 crore to the farmers on kharif paddy procurement.
At a evaluate assembly of the Agricultural, Marketing, Cooperation and Civil Supplies Departments at his camp workplace close to right here on April 24 (Monday), Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy requested the officials to put together an inventory of eligible farmers for Rythu Bharosa on the earliest.
“Distribute fertilizers, seeds and pesticides to farmers through Rythu Bharosa Kendras. The quantity of supply has to be increased year after year, taking the growing requirements into consideration. Keeping a track of the functioning of ‘CM App’ for providing improvised services to farmers is necessary. The SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) of the CM App should be improved to ensure that Minimum Support Price (MSP) is paid to farmers,” he stated.
Stressing the necessity to create consciousness amongst farmers on completely different kinds of paddy that are in excessive demand, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy requested the officials to hold the seeds prepared in order that farmers would get them on time. This will assist farmers go for exports which may get the very best costs for his or her produce, he stated.
The officials knowledgeable the Chief Minister that the listing of Rythu Bharosa beneficiaries could be made accessible in any respect village secretariats by May 10. Steps have been taken to assemble 1,005 godowns and 206 of them have been prepared for functioning, whereas the development of 93 godowns was in the ultimate phases. The work on the remaining could be accomplished by July.
Around 7 lakh tonnes of fertilizers have been distributed to farmers final 12 months, whereas plans are afoot to distribute extra this 12 months. e-crop reserving for 48.02 lakh acres has been accomplished to date and the information has been forwarded to the Civil Supplies Department, the officials stated.
The officials stated that the farmers could be skilled on using drones by the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University at Tirupati, Kadapa, Marteru and Vizianagaram, they stated including that the primary such coaching centre is arising at Vizianagaram.
Minister for Agriculture and Cooperation Okay. Govardhana Reddy, Civil Supplies Minister Okay.V. Nageswara Rao, A.P. Agri Mission Vice-Chairman M.V.S. Nagi Reddy, Advisor to Government (Agriculture) I. Tirupal Reddy, Chief Secretary Okay.S. Jawahar Reddy, Principal Secretaries Chiranjeevi Choudary (Marketing and Cooperation) and Gopalakrishna Dwivedi (Agriculture), Agriculture Special Commissioner Ch. Harikiran, Agriculture Commissioner Rahul Pande (Marketing), Horticultural Commissioner S.S. Sridhar, Civil Supplies Commissioner H. Arunkumar, APSSDC VC & MD G. Sekhar Babu, APSCSC VC & MD G. Veerapandyan and different officials have been amongst these current.
