Along with a focus on industrialisation, Andhra Pradesh will stay as the State with double-digit growth in agriculture and allied sectors, according to the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

“Ours is an agriculture-oriented State. In the last four years, Andhra Pradesh has been the only State that has achieved double- digit growth in agriculture. The average growth in the past four years is about 10.5 per cent,” he told after laying the foundation stone for the new factory of Hero MotoCorp in Chittoor district.

He also said the agricultural income growth in the State will be about 18 per cent this year as against the all-India average growth of about three per cent. “We have more or less stabilised agriculture and allied sectors. It will grow by about 15 per cent over the next 5-10 years,” he said.

Naidu said the State will also go in for an industrialisation in a big way by attracting investments from across segments in order to create more jobs.

‘Biggest investment’

He vowed to make Andhra Pradesh a major auto hub. His confidence stems from the fact that the State can attract investments to the tune of about ₹35,000 crore in the automotive sector during the past three-and-a-half years of his latest tenure.

“This is the biggest investment we have attracted in any segment,” he said adding that those investments had been brought into the backward areas of the State — Anantapur, Chittoor and Rayalaseema.

“We are able to provide adequate water to industries apart from 24/7 power assurance. This is our major USP,” he said.

Highlighting the investments across sectors, Naidu said that his government was working towards making Andhra Pradesh a distant No 1 in terms of ease of doing business by benchmarking it with other States, which the State has already achieved.

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