Exhorting the Agriculture division officers to maintain adequate inventory of seeds and fertilizers required for the subsequent kharif season in advance, Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari has requested them to make sure that there was no scope for provide of spurious seeds to farmers.
The State authorities had initiated stringent steps in opposition to advertising and marketing of spurious seeds and arrested 551 individuals up to now registering 347 circumstances. Cases underneath Preventive Detention Act have been registered in opposition to 16 individuals and 11,872 quintals of spurious seeds have been seized from their possession. The officers involved ought to take steps to make sure efficient linkage between business and agriculture moreover making certain campus recruitments to college students passing out of agricultural college.
The State authorities had constituted a steering committee headed by the Chief Secretary to advertise agri-startups and meals processing models as half of efforts to supply expertise help to farmers and the officers involved ought to take steps accordingly. Ms. Santhi Kumari, nevertheless, burdened the necessity for additional progress in the horticulture sector and steps ought to be taken to advertise cultivation of greens by farmers.
She expressed concern over stories about provide of spurious edible oil and needed the officers involved to advertise the merchandise marketed underneath the Vijaya model to keep away from such incidents. She recalled that the proactive insurance policies of the federal government ensured that the aim of cultivation in over one crore acres was realised. Steps like introduction of Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima and provision of 24×7 uninterrupted energy provide ensured cultivation of paddy on a large scale and the State was ranked second in the nation in this regard. Equal emphasis was laid on cotton cultivation too ensuing in the State being ranked third in the nation in phrases of manufacturing.
