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2018 will be natural farming year: AP CM

Vijayawada, Dec 31 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced the year 2018 as "natural farming year" and reiterated that the government's commitment to encourage organic farming in the state.
Inaugurating the training programme for the farmers on the natural farming, being organised by the farmers empowerment corporation with the association of eminent organic farming scientist and Padmasri recipient Subhash Palekar in the Bible Mission ground, near here, in Guntur district, the Chief Minister said that he had christened the year 2018 as natural farming year. He said that he was striving to make the state as natural farming state and as part of this, farmers were being trained on natural farming at the training centre, which would last till January 8, 2018.
The Chief Minister said that 8,000 farmers from Andhra Pradesh and 500 from Telangana State had attended the training programme. As many as 300 technical professions had also attended the training programme to impart training to the farmers. “Andhra Pradesh should be a hub for natural farming and farmers should take part to achieve aim. The farmers, in future, will yield benefits, if they adopt organic farming methods. Organic farming will help to reduce production cost and earn more profits” the Chief Minister said.
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