INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S
Jagan Mohan Reddy has said the state government will set up multi-purpose facility centres including for agricultural marketing and food
RBKs, agricultural marketing, food processing and Amul project here on Thursday that the construction of multi-purpose facility centers
would start in March and be completed in a year
The facilities would include warehouses, drying platform, collection centers, cold rooms for storage, custom hiring centers, primary
processing centers, assaying equipment, Janata Bazaars, bulk milk cooling units, cattle sheds and aqua infra, in select villages,
Farmer should be informed when seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and the like will be delivered and the schedules should be displayed in RBKs
as well.The CM said quality aqua feed and aqua seed should be provided through RBKs
The labs to be established at the constituency level to determine the quality of feed and seeds should be linked with RBKs
The products of organic and natural farming methods should be brought under RBKs and well publicised
Agriculture university should prepare an action plan for effective functioning of RBKs and a curriculum should be prepared on marketing,
before harvest and after harvest
It was important for officials to focus on completing the construction of Rytu Bazaars in the fixed timeline.The CM said the Nadu-Nedu
scheme should be implemented in market yards and the proposals were laid out with a Rs212 crore budget
RBKs would be set up along with 10,641 RBKs and the vehicles count in RBK hubs has been increased to 154 from the existing 65
Some 147 constituency level integrated labs will start functioning from March 31 and 13 district-level integrated Agri labs will be set up
by June 30.Agriculture minister Kurasala Kannababu, agriculture special chief secretary Poonam Malakondaiah, Zero Budget Natural Farming
Adviser and vice-chairman T Vijayakumar, agriculture commissioner Arun Kumar, special commissioner for marketing PS Pradyumna, horticulture
commissioner Chiranjeevi Chowdary, AP dairy development cooperative federation MD Babu A, AP AGROS MD Srikesh Balaji Rao, civil supplies
