The Minister of Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender said that the State government was taking all measures to unite the farmers by constituting the farmers’ coordination committees in all the villages and empower them with modernisation of farm operations to make them economically strong.
He participated in separate meetings for the constitution of village-level farmers coordination committees in Kanukulagidde village of Huzurabad mandal in Karimnagar district and Itharajpalli village of Sultanabad in Peddapalli district on Friday. The Minister said that the government was committed towards making agriculture the most feasible enterprise by empowering them through the farmers’ coordination committees. He said that the committees would have ₹ 6,500 crore at their disposal for bringing changes in the agriculture sector.
Informing the authorities to ensure that members of all the communities were included in the farmers’ coordination committees in the villages, he said that each farmer should strive to transform agriculture on par with the Ankapur farmers of Nizamabad district and reap rich dividends.
He highlighted the achievements of the TRS government for the welfare of the farmers including waiver of crop loans to the tune of ₹ 17,000 crore. He said that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao was striving hard to make Telangana great.
He stated that the completion of Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project would completely transform the agriculture scenario in the integrated Karimnagar district. The govt. was taking all measures to provide drinking water tap connections to each and every household in the district by the next summer, he added.
The village farmers’ coordination committee members would be selected at the grama sabhas from September 1 to 9.
Peddapalli legislator D. Manohar Reddy was present.