Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy has called upon the field staff and the officials of the Agriculture Department to work in tandem to ensure speedy completion of the collection of data of nominees of the farmers to be covered under the proposed life insurance scheme for farmers by this month end.
All the 233 officials of the Agriculture Department and 1,833 members of the Rythu Samanvaya Samithis in the undivided Khammam district should contribute their mite for the betterment of farmers, he said.
Addressing the members and coordinators of the Rythu Samanvaya Samithis and the employees of the Agriculture Department at a meeting here on Tuesday, he said the multiple initiatives taken by the State government for the welfare of farmers and overall growth of the farm sector earned wide appreciation.