AP Government succeeded in making the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation a partner for the development of the Agriculture Sector.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conducted research in Africa using advanced technology for soil profiling. With this technology, the soil profile of landholders could be recorded through Spectroscopy and Digital Mapping. Fertility of the Land, Crops suitable & kind of Seeds required will be analyzed. Now, The Foundation will be offering this technology for Andhra Pradesh.
A 2-day event named ‘AP Smart Landholder Summit’ will be conducted in AP by the end of September. Bill Gates will grace the Summit as a keynote speaker.
In the first quarter of the 2017-18 financial year, AP achieved a growth of 27.60% in Agriculture & Allied Sectors.
