Businessline dt.5/10/10
Hyderabad, Oct.4
After achieving a record cropped area in the kharif season, the Andhra Pradesh Government has estimated a cover of 1.07 crore acres in the rabi season.
“We are going to distribute 12.16 lakh quintals of groundnut, red gram, maize, sunflower and paddy seeds with a total subsidy of Rs 168 crore,” Mr N Raghuveera Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Minister for Agriculture, said.
Addressing a press conference here after a review of kharif season and preparations for rabi, he said the Department had already made 2.31 lakh quintals of seed available in various districts.
The Union Government had allocated 35 lakh tonnes of fertilisers.
This was highest allocations for the State for any rabi season so far.
Disbursal target
The bankers in the State had been given a crop loan disbursal target of Rs 8,788 crore of crop loans and Rs 3,842 crore of term loans during the rabi season.
Meanwhile, the officials had put the loss to farmers in the kharif season at Rs 128 crore due to excess rains and inundation. In all, crop in an extent of 6.87 lakh acres was damaged across the State.
Those who lost crop in 2009 would get a total compensation of Rs 699 crore by the month end, the Minister said.
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