Adilabad: Minister for agriculture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on Saturday said state government will promote organic farming on a big scale to reduce the investment cost and achieve good yield and farmers falling into debt traps and prevent them from committing suicides.
He said they will promote organic farming in 15,000 acres with Rs 21 crore in the first phase this year in the state with the funds provided state and Central government under the Paramparagath Krishi Vikasa Yojana being implemented by the Central government.
Mr Srinivas Reddy was speaking at a meeting organised for distribution of soil health cards to the farmers at Indravelli. He said the programme will be implemented in 300 clusters in all the mandals with 50 acre in each cluster in the state.
Organic farming would be taken up on 1,600 acres in 34 clusters and meetings with the farmers will be conducted in all the districts to educate on the importance of the organic farming while stressing need for reducing use of chemicals in agriculture. Mr Srinivas Reddy promised to send the Poland- based company to Adilabad to establish tomato processing unit here as the company was interested in establishing in food processing units in the state. The minister said farmers will get minimum support price to their tomato crop and they will get profits if the company buys the crop from them. Ministers Jogu Ramanna and Allola Indrakaran Reddy also spoke.
Mr Srinivas Reddy inaugurated the cage culture under which fishes will be raised in special methods at Kadam project. ADCCB chairman Damodhar Reddy and TRS leader Lokbhuma Reddy and others were present.
