CMJagan is known for his revolutionary measures to put Andhra Pradesh on the world map. According to the latest, CM Jagan gave a call to revolutionalize the agriculture sector. Speaking with the officials of the Agriculture Department, while reviewing the activities, Jagan said “Now we are using drones for spraying pesticides but they should be used for multi-purposes so that it would be more helpful to the farmers,”
He directed the officials to take steps to equip 10,000 RBKs with drones. He asked them to extensively use drones in soil testing by RBKs will also help implement the Plant Doctor concept successfully besides arriving at correct estimates of productivity and maintaining related data.
Jagan went on to add “There should be more cold-storage rooms, go-downs and collection centers for encouraging the horticultural farmers,” Jagan continued "Steps also should be taken to establish onion and tomato food processing units in constituencies where there is more cultivation of such crops. To help women gain self-sufficiency, they should be encouraged to establish secondary food processing units helping them with loans under the YSR Cheyuta scheme,"
Those who attended the meeting included Agriculture Minister K. Govardhan Reddy, Agri Mission Vice Chairman MVS Nagi Reddy, Advisor to Government I. Tirupal Reddy (Agriculture), Chief Secretary Dr. KS Jawahar Reddy, Special Chief Secretary Gopalakrishna Dwivedi (Agriculture), Principal Secretary Chiranjeevi Choudary (Marketing and Cooperation), Agriculture Special Commissioner C. Harikiran, Horticultural Commissioner SS Sridhar, MARKFED MD Rahul Pandey, APSSDCS VC & MD Dr G. Sekhar Babu, Finance Secretary KVV Satyanarayana, APDDCF MD Ahmad Babu, and others.
