Telangana Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageswara Rao today directed officials to finalise all the preparations for the reintroduction of the farm mechanisation scheme, which he said would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in January.
During a review meeting with officials from the agriculture and allied departments at the Secretariat, the minister said that the Chief Minister had decided to revive the scheme, under which various modern tools and machinery would be provided to 1.31 lakh farmers at subsidised rates.
He said that applications were already being received from farmers across the State for the scheme. He instructed officials to complete the process by January and prepare an action plan to launch the scheme in the first week of the month through the CM.
He also directed district agriculture and allied department officials to tour mandals in the first week of January and gather field-level feedback on various issues including subsidies received by farmers, applications under the farm mechanisation scheme, and the implementation of the urea app. He focused on the need to directly understand the farmers' problems and provide immediate solutions.
Rao added that the Congress government was systematically reinstating Central government programs that were discontinued by the previous administration. He recalled that subsidised pulse seeds had already been supplied under the National Food Security Mission.