Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the agricultural division officers to equip all Rythu Bharosa Kendras (RBKs) within the state with soil testing gear by March subsequent to assist farmers resolve on the suitability of crops to be cultivated and the quantum and high quality of fertilisers for use in cultivation.

Through the overview assembly of the agricultural division held on Monday, the Chief Minister advised officers that soil testing would go a great distance in preserving soil fertility whereas decreasing the enter price and rising productiveness. Therefore, each RBK must be outfitted with soil testing gear.

He additionally ordered them to make sure that the RBKs are outfitted with drones whereas making the agricultural equipment equipped via group hiring centres out there to all farmers. He advised them to have at the very least one drone in each RBK to assist the farming group.

The officers of the civil provides division ought to work in shut coordination with the agricultural division to assist farmers promote their produce for Minimal Assist Value (MSP) whereas engaged on paddy procurement utilizing e-cropping knowledge, he stated. Enter subsidy and zero-interest farm loans shall be credited to the financial institution accounts of farmers on November 29.

Insisting that officers ought to take the paddy procurement as a problem, he stated that no farmer ought to promote his agricultural produce beneath the MSP. Within the backdrop of the millers’ function being eradicated, farmers ought to profit to the utmost in paddy procurement.

Beneath the YSR Polambadi programme, Agricultural College college students must be requested to endure apprenticeship in agricultural fields as it may well assist farmers acquire some new data from them.

When the officers knowledgeable that Rabi could be cultivated in 22.92 lakh hectares, he advised them to be prepared with required fertilisers and high quality seeds for distribution. When advised that e-KYC was accomplished as much as 93 per cent, the Chief Minister instructed that the remaining 7 per cent additionally must be expedited by sending SMSs to the farmers.

The officers additionally advised him that the state has skilled 775 mm rainfall from June until date and the manufacturing of meals grains in Kharif season is estimated to be 186 lakh metric tonnes.

He was additionally knowledgeable that the AP Seeds Improvement Company received the ICFA (Indian Chamber of Meals and Agriculture) India Agri Enterprise-2022 Award within the seeds class.