Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy has asked the farmers who are engaged in paddy cultivation on regular basis to switch to other crops which have good demand in the market such as chilli, redgram and others before the focus on paddy turns into a bane.
Speaking after inaugurating a paddy procurement centre operated by IKP (self-help) groups and a Rythu Vedika building at Kesaram village in Suryapet district along with Minister for Energy G. Jagadish Reddy, Chairman of the Civil Supplies Corporation M. Srinivas Reddy and others, Mr. Niranjan Reddy said the time was ripe to adopt changes in cropping pattern in tune with market demands.
Stating that cultivation of paddy in the vanakalam and yasangi seasons had reached almost similar proportion, the Minister said it was the result of decisions taken and executed by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. Paddy was cultivated in 53.25 lakh acres and 52.8 lakh acres, respectively, in the two seasons of the 2020-21 agricultural…
