The chief minister also announced that 2,500 clusters with one cluster for every 5,000 acres will be set up across the state and in every cluster, dais will be constructed for the farmers to interact, an official release said today.
KCR, who had held an extended high-level review meeting on farmers' welfare and agriculture development yesterday, instructed officials that the farmers should be educated about the power of unity and the farmers association should be formed from the village to state level to forge an alliance with other farmers.
He said there is a need to expand the agriculture ministry as more than two-thirds of the population is depending on agriculture in the state.
"If need be services of retired officers and scientists should be utilised and the ministry should be reorganised," Rao said.
"Under the united Andhra Pradesh, Telangana farmers were deceived and they were distressed for irrigation water. Hence we have focused on agriculture and the irrigation sectors and we are getting the results.