AP Agriculture Minister demands Aadhar links to fertilizers

Guntur, June 16: The Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister S.Chandramohan Reddy has announced that The government would link Aadhaar to fertilizers and urea purchases to curb misuse of government subsidies.

He distributed e-PoS machines to the fertilizer dealers at a meeting organized by Coromandel International Limited at Guntur on Thursday.

He said that 10.76 lakh soil samples were collected till June this year in AP and 15 lakh soil health cards were issued to the farmers.

He said that the government has sanctioned Rs 1,680 crore input subsidy to the farmers and urged the farmers to turn into industrialists in the future.

Mentioning about Aadhaar linkage to domestic gas subsidy and ration shops yielding good results, Mr. Chandramohan Reddy said that after observing the success, the state government decided to implement Aadhaar link for fertilizers to restrain misuse of subsidies.