Minister for agriculture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy said
state government will promote organic farming on big scale to reduce the
investment cost and achieve good yields and prevent the farmers falling into
debt traps and 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 Pocharam Srinivas Reddy was speaking at a meeting
organized for distribution of soil health cards to the farmers at Indravelli.
He said the progamme will be implemented in 300 clusters in all the mandals and
50 acre in each cluster in the state.
Organic farming would be taken up in 1,600 acres in
34 clusters and meetings with the farmers will be conducted in all the
districts to educate the importance of the organic farming while stressing need
for reducing use of chemicals in the Agriculture.
Minister Pocharam 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 they the company busy
the crop from them. Minister Pocharam
Srinivas Reddy inaugurated the cage culture under which fishes will be raised
in special methods at Kadam project.