Businessline Hyderabad, Oct. 12
Andhra Pradesh will introduce mechanical harvesters to help resource-starved groundnut farmers. Mostly focussed in Anantapur district, farmers grow groundnut in 23 lakh acres.
“A Kolkata-based manufacturer has introduced a harvester for Rs 1.80 lakh. But farmers cannot afford to buy the machines at this price. We have asked the university (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University) to develop an affordable price of Rs 70,000. We will subsidise the machines when they are ready,” Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, Minister for Agriculture, said.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said the district, second only to Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) in terms of poor rainfall, had suffered drought in 74 years in the last 120 years
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