Vijayawada, Sept. 15 -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today announced incentives to those farmers who minimise urea usage.
The Chief Minister announced a Rs 800 incentive per bag of urea and directed the officials to distribute the subsidy under the PM Pranam scheme to farmers directly to encourage reducing urea usage. He stated that there is no dearth of urea supply and officials should have planned early for the supply of urea in advance.
Addressing the Collectors conference at Secretariat at Amaravati, near here today, the Chief Minister said recently China rejected India's chilli consignment on the pretext of chemical fertilisers.
Naidu feared that excess use of chemicals and pesticides and urea leads to cancer. C...