VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy sought a national policy for pure farming and sought weightage within the Finance Commission to states with sizable areas beneath pure farming. He became as soon as speaking online at a Niti Aayog meeting on pure farming on Monday.
The CM mentioned 6.31 lakh farmers tilling 2.9 lakh hectares in AP — five per cent of the land beneath cultivation — had enrolled for pure farming in 2021-22 and the federal government became as soon as encouraging the follow.
He mentioned farmers practising pure farming desires to be rewarded. The strategy of certification of pure and natural farming desires to be farmer-pleasant, and the follow desires to be added to the curriculum of agriculture universities.
Institutional analysis desires to be performed on pure farming and its advantages, he mentioned. The allocations of subsidized projects were being performed in 60: 40 ratio by Central and relate governments and it desires to be changed to 90: 10 for pure farming.
Jagan Mohan Reddy mentioned there became as soon as a need for quality harvest to attend society healthy by lowering dependency on artificial chemicals in agriculture. Pure farming became as soon as a main innovation for bettering the livelihood of the farmers, for conserving meals and nutrition security of the of us, heading off chemical consumption by the meals, regenerating soil, making improvements to water conservation and to boot for a big fluctuate of eco pleasant advantages.
Jagan Mohan Reddy mentioned pure farming became as soon as being practiced in 3,009 of 10,778 Rythu Bharosa Kendras (RBKs) and. He mentioned RBKs are taking part in a essential role in extending enhance to the farmers practising pure farming. They were also maintaining programmes.
Jagan Mohan Reddy mentioned the German government had agreed in notion to fabricate monetary attend of Euro 20 million over five years to promote pure farming. The Indo-German Global Academy on Agro Ecology Review and Studying would be region up, which would work to utter knowledge of scientific systems in pure farming.
He mentioned partnership with world institutions adore FAO, UNEP, ICRAF, College of Reading, College of Edinburgh, CIRAD ( France), GIZ, KFW and certification to the pure farming merchandise at RBK level will amplify pure farming.
Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Dr Rajeev Kumar thanked the Chief Minister for taking measures to implement pure farming systems and making a separate division for it within the agriculture division. He mentioned he had visited RBKs and praised the Chief Minister for its services.
Chief Secretary Dr Sameer Sharma, Chief Minister’s Particular Chief Secretary Dr Okay.S. Jawahar Reddy, Agriculture Particular Commissioner C.H. Hari Kiran and diverse officials were point out within the meeting.
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