Vijayawada, Feb. 4 -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has directed officials to take steps to transform Andhra Pradesh into the largest natural farming hub in the country.
The Chief Minister said 1.8 million farmers have come forward to practise natural farming across 2 million acres and asked companies to take up saffron crop cultivation in Lambasingi under the PPP mode.
Addressing a review meeting on agriculture and allied sectors at the Secretariat at Amaravati, near here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister stressed the need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers. He announced that training programmes on natural farming would be conducted statewide.
Recalling that Rayalaseema earlier faced severe water scarcity, he h...