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TS Govt subsidy for fruit cultivation
To cope with the losses incurred on agriculture, the farmers are slowly turning towards horticulture, especially by growing fruits like mango, papaya, guava, banana and other varieties of fruits in their gardens. To encourage growing fruits, the State government is extending subsidies to farmers. To encourage setting-up of fruit gardens in 2015-16, officials have already set their goals.
Sangareddy: To cope with the losses incurred on agriculture, the farmers are slowly turning towards horticulture, especially by growing fruits like mango, papaya, guava, banana and other varieties of fruits in their gardens. To encourage growing fruits, the State government is extending subsidies to farmers. To encourage setting-up of fruit gardens in 2015-16, officials have already set their goals.
The government is giving a part of the initial investment to the farmers as subsidy for growing fruits. Guava fruit gardens are getting the maximum subsidy. Depending on the spacing between the plants and the method of cultivation, guava farmers are being given either Rs 48,000 or Rs 17,600 per hectare as subsidy.
As banana gardens are not seen much in the district, this year, the goal is to cultivate them in 199 hectares. Consequently, Rs 30, 739 per hectare are being given as subsidy. The goal for papaya cultivation is being set for 50 hectares. It has been decided that Rs 11.56 lakh would be given as subsidy in total.
Depending on the method of growing mangoes, anything between Rs 9,840 to Rs 26,880 is being given as subsidy per hectare. Subsidy is being given to custard apple, citrus fruits, pomegranate and other fruits as well. For farmers growing banana, mango, guava, citrus fruits and pomegranate, operational costs would be very high for the first three years.
After that the costs would come down and the farmers can see good returns. Keeping this is mind, the government is not only providing subsidy for the first year, but is also offering help in the form of subsidy on operational costs. The situation in the district for growing fruit gardens is ripe. By 2014-15, there were 15,428 hectares of fruit gardens across the district.
Of them, mangoes were grown in 9,712 hectares, bananas in 2,858 hectares, papaya in 966 hectares, guava in 1,426 hectares, pomegranate in 182 hectares, citrus fruits in 25 hectares, anjeer in 85 hectares, grapes in 82 hectares and kiwi in 65 hectares.
