Action plan for agriculture to be launched on March 1: AP CM

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said that an action plan for agriculture will be launched on March 1.
"An action plan for agriculture would be launched on March 1 with thrust on modernisation with best practises. It would be a vision for agriculture in the state," Naidu said on his return from Davos where he took part in the World Economic Forum.
"My vision includes modernisation of cultivation from sowing to harvest and post harvest and by providing networking of markets with public and private partnership," he said here.
About his visit to Davos, the Chief Minister said he interacted with many national and international industrialists and invited them to invest in the state.

According to the Chief Minister, some of the agro-based industries are "willing" to set up their units in the state.
The agriculture scenario in the state would be more attractive and remunerative with the support of agro-based industries, he said.

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Asked about the Government Order (GO) issued by the
Endowments department stating that endowment lands can be cultivated by Hindu farmers only, and amid allegations that livelihoods of several farmers have been snatched away by the move, Prabhakar said the Endowments Act should be understood in spirit.
"This kind of Act is in place only in the southern states. In the northern states, each temple or each place of worship is administered by the respective faiths. Here, the government has come forward to be a custodian and a facilitator in so far as the administration is concerned.

"The government and its machinery should be respectful to the faith when it is managing the properties belonging to persons of a particular faith. That would be in accordance with the spirit of Endowments Act," he said.
The GO was issued in accordance with the spirit of Endowments Act, he said.