The Hindu Business Line : AP action plan to boost crop production

THE Andhra Pradesh Government has announced an Agriculture Action Plan for the current financial year, seeking to increase production and productivity of various crops and reduce cost of cultivation.

Releasing the action plan here, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister, said the State would promote crop diversification towards remunerative crops and impart scientific knowledge on dry land area farming to farmers.

The plan also aimed at promoting organic farming that would substantially reduce the burden of input costs.

The plan targeted a crop area of 81.29 lakh hectares in the kharif season in 2005-06 as against 78 lakh hectares last year.

For rabi season, the targeted crop area was 40.21 lakh hectares (30.97 lakh hectares). "We pin our hopes on a good monsoon," he said.

The rice production would go up to 101.05 lakh tonnes from 93.88 tonnes. The forecast for food grain production was put at 165 lakh tonnes from 131.41 lakh tonnes.

The Chief Minister said the Government proposed to develop 1,100 seed villages each in kharif and rabi seasons.

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