KCR Attacks Centre On Farm Policies: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a high level review on the availability of fertilisers, seeds and the agriculture department’s readiness to provide other farm related arrangements with the officials at Pragati Bhavan and it was yet another opportunity for the CM to attack the Union government. He said that the central policies were dampening the agricultural growth of the country.
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“It is unfortunate that the Union government’s haphazard policies are discouraging farmers from continuing farming and have also reduced the country’s farming output,” the CM said. CM KCR made it clear that the state government will keep working towards the consolidation of the agriculture sector in Telangana. He reiterated that the action plan for farmers’ welfare would be strengthened further and that government efforts would be continued.
In view of the Vaanakalam (Kharif season) beginning in a few months, the CM instructed Agriculture Minister, Niranjan Reddy, to make all necessary arrangements in advance. He suggested planting cotton, chilli, red gram and watermelon crops and other alternative ones too. Towards this end, KCR asked the officials have been asked to prepare a special action plan on profit-making crops.
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He instructed the top officials to depute the district officers, village level officials and agriculture extension officers to go on ground level visits and give suggestions to the farmers on cropping patterns. The top officials were also asked to prepare a ‘job chart’ of the responsibilities and duties of the agriculture officials.
The CM also focused on reducing the indiscriminate use of fertilisers. He asked officials to educate the farmers about scientific methods in the use of fertilisers. KCR expressed concerns about the repeated farming of single crops for years, which resulted in the soil health being spoilt. “The need of the hour is to adopt alternative cropping to protect soil quality,” said the CM, asking officials to prepare required plans in this direction also.
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