The Hindu Business Line : Call for more support to fisheries

The working group of the sub-committee of the National Development Council on Agriculture and related issues has called for increase of Budgetary outlay for fisheries from 0.22 per cent to 0.88 per cent and for animal husbandry from 0.4 per cent to two per cent. Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Chairman of the group, wanted the Government to peg institutional credit at not less than Rs 1 lakh crore, with interest subsidy from the Government. He called for `agriculture' or `indirect agriculture' status to poultry sector.

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