The Chittoor district administration on Wednesday launched the strategic summer action plan to counter irrigation water scarcity and fodder crisis in villages in the next four months.
District Water Management Agency (DWMA) Project Director S. Rajasekhar Naidu held an emergency review meeting with officials of agriculture, horticulture, sericulture and animal husbandry departments at the Collectorate here and took stock of the prevailing conditions at the field level in the allied sectors. The meeting discussed steps to salvage tomato cultivation in over 6,000 hectares in the district through drip irrigation.
The action plan includes repairs to bore-wells and supply of water to affected areas using tankers. The DWMA official directed officials to come out with an action plan by Saturday. He said steps were initiated on a war footing to overcome shortage of fodder in the western mandals, by procuring stocks from Srikalahasti and other eastern mandals, and from the neighbouring Nellore district. The officials were also told to extensively tour rural areas.
Officials moot steps to salvage tomato cultivation in over 6,000 hectares
