Focus on developing fishing harbours: CM
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Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday reviewed the tasks of the Agri Infra Fund with the Ministers and senior officers of the departments of Agriculture and its allied sectors corresponding to Marketing, A.P. Dairy Development Cooperative Federation, Fisheries, Food Processing Society and Animal Husbandry.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officers to focus on developing fishing harbours at Kakinada, Kothapatnam (Prakasam district) and Pudimadaka (Visakhapatnam district).
The officers defined that the tasks had an outlay of ₹15,743 crore.
“I want complete integration of facilities provided to the farmers. Multi Purpose Facility Centres should be set up at the Rythu Bharosa Kendras. Farmers should get access to dry storage facilities, drying platforms, PDS warehouses, Janata Bazaars, and all these 16 projects should be taken up on a war-footing. We are setting up 4,277 dry storage facilities, drying platforms, 60 PDS warehouses, 1,483 milk procurement centres, cold rooms, turmeric boilers, 10,678 milk collection points,” stated Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He stated that 9,899 Bulk Milk Cooling models and eight,051 Automatic Milk Cooling models could be constructed over the following one 12 months, and the estimates have been ₹1,885.76 crore for the BMCs and ₹942.77 crore for the AMCs. Land acquisition would begin for the development of those models, he stated.
Milk procurement
The officers defined that milk procurement via Amul Dairy was going on, and thus far 50.01 lakh litres was procured from 12,342 farmers and payments price ₹23.42 crore have been paid.
In the primary part, 4 fishing harbours – Uppada (East Godavari), Nizampatnam (Guntur), Machilipatnam (Krishna), and Juvvaladinne (Nellore), could be accomplished by December 2022, the officers stated.
In the second part, fishing harbours could be constructed at Budagatlapalem (Srikakulam), Pudimadaka (Visakhapatnam), Biyyaputippa (West Godavari), and Odarevu (Prakasam).
Food processing
The State authorities would additionally construct 10,111 meals processing models in each parliamentary constituency and would additionally start millet processing models.
The authorities would additionally construct 10,750 customized hiring centres on a par with the Rythu Bharosa Kendras. Hightech farm mechanisation hubs could be arrange at 175 locations within the State.
Minister for Agriculture K. Kanna Babu, Special Chief Secretary Poonam Malakondaiah, Special Chief Secretary (Industries) Karikala Valavan, Secretary (Finance) S.S. Rawat, Principal Secretary (Marketing) Y. Madhusudana Reddy, Commissioner (Marketing) P.S. Pradyumna, and APDDCF Director Ahmed Babu have been current.
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