The Agriculture Department has identified 1,332 clusters for encouraging cotton cultivation, over 1,000 clusters for paddy and 82 for redgram as part of the plans to take up crops in the next Kharif season in about 1.42 crore acres.
The Kharif 2022-23 plan was discussed at a meeting held by Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy here on Saturday. According to the plan, cotton is likely to be encouraged in 70 lakh to 75 lakh acres, paddy in about 50 lakh acres, redgram in 15 lakh acres and horticultural crops in 11.5 lakh acres.
The Minister felt that the farming community suffered loss of prospective income by not cultivating cotton in the extent suggested by the State Government and asked the authorities to encourage them to go for the fibre crop in the planned extent during the next Kharif. He stated that cluster (5,000 acres) wise crop plans were prepared to make arrangements for supply of seed and fertilizer and green manure seed.
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