Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Government has prepared an integrated agricultural action plan with a cumulative investment of Rs 32,074 crore for the year 2008-09 across 21 different departments that have a bearing on agriculture.
Releasing the action plan here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister, Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, said the cumulative investment on agriculture was only Rs 4,280 crore in 2003-04 (the last year of Telugu Desam Government).
He said the government set a target of 200 lakh tonnes of food grain production this year as against 190 lakh tonnes last year.
“We have attained a growth rate of 12 per cent in agriculture and allied sectors in the state as against a national average of 4.5 per cent. Overall growth too exceeded the national average of 9.03 per cent with 10.64 per cent in 2007-08,” he said.
Releasing the action plan here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister, Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, said the cumulative investment on agriculture was only Rs 4,280 crore in 2003-04 (the last year of Telugu Desam Government).
He said the government set a target of 200 lakh tonnes of food grain production this year as against 190 lakh tonnes last year.
“We have attained a growth rate of 12 per cent in agriculture and allied sectors in the state as against a national average of 4.5 per cent. Overall growth too exceeded the national average of 9.03 per cent with 10.64 per cent in 2007-08,” he said.
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