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Hans India
09-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Farmers to benefit from free horticultural plantations
Vijayawada: NTR district collector Dr G Lakshmisha on Tuesday urged farmers in the district to leverage the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for free fruit orchard cultivation, highlighting the potential for two to three times higher income from horticultural crops. He encouraged farmers to make the most of these government initiatives. A mega grounding mela for horticultural crop cultivation was held on Tuesday at Gosaveedu of Gampalagudem mandal, organised by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme – District Water Management Agency (DWMA). Collector Lakshmisha launched the programme by planting mango saplings on 1.15 acres of land belonging to Immadi Nagamani. Addressing the gathering, Collector Lakshmisha stated that a Maha Yagnam for poverty eradication is underway in the state. He instructed field-level officials and staff, including MPDOs, MGNREGS APOs, Gram Sachivalayam Horticultural Assistants, Agriculture Assistants, and Field Assistants, to play a crucial role in encouraging farmers towards horticultural crop cultivation. He explained that under MGNREGS, farmers receive free saplings and financial assistance for maintenance. Collector Lakshmisha elaborated on the eligibility for small and marginal farmers (owning less than five acres) to cultivate a variety of horticultural crops, including mango, guava, lemon, sapota, pomegranate, dragon fruit, coconut, oil palm, apple bear, drumstick, jasmine, and rose. He provided examples of the financial assistance available: for mango cultivation, farmers can receive approximately Rs 1,09,950 per acre in various forms; for guava, around Rs 1,46,971 per acre; and for cultivating 1,600 jasmine plants per acre, nearly Rs 1,85,396 in aid. Pomegranate cultivation offers support of Rs 2,16,417 per acre, while dragon fruit receives Rs 2,00,714 for half-an -acre. Tiruvuru RDO K Madhuri, DWMA PD A Ramu, Assistant PD Parthasarathi, DWMA District Plantation Manager K Usha, and other officials participated.
The Hindu
17-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Kadapa Collector inspects MGNREGA works after MP's complaint
Kadapa Collector Sridhar Cherukuri inspected a number of ongoing works pertaining to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGA) in the district, on Friday. Inspecting the works at Vempalli mandal along with District Water Management Agency (DWMA) officials, he interacted with the workers and appealed to them to make use of the scheme. The work sites included water harvesting ponds for sweet lime orchards, where Mr. Sridhar learnt the farm management practices adopted by the orchard owners. The Collector apparently made a visit to the sites after receiving a complaint from Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy on the widespread corruption and irregularities in the implementation of MGNREGA works in the State. In the complaint, Mr. Reddy had accused the TDP-led alliance government of 'systematically subverting' the scheme and resorting to large scale financial fraud, thus leading to exploration of vulnerable labourers. The MP also brought to the notice of the Collector the issue of fake job cards to non-existent or politically-linked individuals by ignoring and threatening genuine job seekers, digital manipulation of attendance records by uploading the same photographs across multiple muster entries with different names, releasing wage payments for the works that have never executed based on forged documents and without proper ground verification. . The Collector later inspected the IIIT campus in Idupulapaya and offered prayers at the famous Gandi Anjaneyaswamy temple.
