Minister Kakani Govardhana Reddy together with Tadikonda MLA Undavalli Sridevi trying on the reveals at a stall at AgTech-2022 at Lam in Guntur on Saturday. – T. VIJAYA KUMAR PHOTO: T. VIJAYA KUMAR / THE HINDU STRINGER
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Efforts are wanted to make the technological developments accessible to farmers in order to assist them reap the advantages, Kakani Govardhan Reddy, Minister for Agriculture and Cooperation, has mentioned.

He addressed the inaugural session of the three-day AgTech-2022 Conference and Exhibition on the newest agricultural applied sciences at Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University (ANGAU), Lam in Guntur on Saturday.

About 63% of the folks within the State have been depending on the agriculture sector and a minimum of 70% of them have been small and marginal farmers having one or two acres of cultivable land who couldn’t afford to accumulate the newest applied sciences. In order to assist them, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the RBKs throughout the State to ship the newest know-how at farmers’ doorstep. The authorities was offering insurance coverage to farmers in two classes, on crop yield and weather-based calamities. It was giving 75% subsidy on godown development with a view to add worth to farmers’ produce. 

At the RBKs, soil well being playing cards have been being offered to each farmer within the State by means of which officers would be capable of counsel the proper crop for his or her lands, the Minister mentioned.

YSRCP MLA Undavalli Sridevi and ANGRAU Vice-Chancellor A. Vishnuvardhan Reddy have been amongst these current.