DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ACTION PLAN FOR DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH2015-16 *MANDAL : YERRAGUNTLA *DIVISION : KAMALAPURAM *DISTRICT : Y.S.R.KADAPA 2)Mandal Profile: Yerraguntla mandal is having diversified agro climate which comes under semi arid climatic zone with scanty rainfall and soils are of Black cotton soils, loamy soils, and a few red soils areas upto some extent covering a total of geographical area of 24,995 ha cultivating of about 5-6 major crops such as Paddy,Cotton in Kharif and Sesamum, Bengal gram during rabi seasons.A detail mandal profile details as follows : Mandal Profile 1 Total Geographical Area ( in Ha) 24955 2 No of Farm Holdings 8554 3 Forest Area 4403 4 Barren & Uncultivable Land 4049 5 Land Putt to non Agri Uses 6812 6 Culturable Waste 6715 7 Permanent Pastures and Grazing Land 8 Total Cultivable Area (In Ha) 9 No of Revenue Villages 10 No of G.P 177 11170 16 18 11 Mandal Cropping Pattern * G.Nut Kharif * Cotton Kharif * Bengalgram Rabi * Sunflower Rabi * Sesamum Rabi * Jowar Rabi 3) Statement showing the Normal areas ,production &productivity for the year 2013-14 & 2014-15-Yerrguntla mandal SL. NO. Name of the mandal 2013-14 Prod Produ uctivi ction ty in in Kgs./ MTs. Ha Name of the Crop ` 1 `2 `3 1 Yerrag untla Paddy 2 Yerrag untla Bengal Gram 5127 1310 6716 25.52 3 Yerrag untla Cotton 221 415 92 0.39 4 Yerrag untla Grond nut 266 785 209 0.94 5 Yerrag untla Sunflow er 538 988 532 2.13 6 Yerrag untla Sesamu m 0 0 0 0 7 Yerrag untla Jower 467 2960 1382 2.21 8 Yerrag untla Other cops 1005 0 820 3.16 7841 11865 10924 36.23 TOTAL : Area in Ha `5 217 5407 `6 1173 2014-15 Produ ctivity Product in ion in Kgs./ MTs. Ha GVA in Crs. Area in Ha `7 `8 `9 `10 `11 727 5185 3769 5.65 4021 990 3981 15.13 1586 435 690 2.93 143 558 80 0.36 265 425 113 0.46 211 438 92 0.50 154 435 67 0.11 1214 0 1120 4.32 7097 8466 9912 29.00 GVA in Crs. 1.88 5. Soil samples have been drawn to know the fertility status of soils @26 per revenue village and a total of 480 samples are drawn and sent to lab for analysis and the details are as follows : S.No Name of the Mandal Target No. of samples sent 1 Yerraguntla 480 480 No. of Results samples achieved uploaded 480 480 Result pending No. of SHC s distributed No of revenue villages covered 0 410 16 Based on soil sample results it is noticed that Yerraguntla Mandal soils are poor in Micro and macro nutrients and their results as follows : Major nutrients Organic carbon :Low Nitrogen: :Low Phosporous :Low to medium Potash :Medium Micro nutrients: ZN : Low Boron : Low Iron : Low To overcome nutrient deficiencies the following steps has been adopted : S.No Name of the Micronutrient. 1 Gypsum 2 3 Quantity alloted in M.Tons Distributed No of villages covered 169 20 16 0.92 0.01 4 38 20 16 Boron Zinc Sulphate Remedies adopted to overcome soil problems : S.No Type of fertility status Strategy adopted to overcome problem 1 High P.H containing soils Application of Ca containing fertilizer such as Gypsum at an average of 200 kg /acre or chamomile etc 2 low P.H containing soils Application of lime @ of 200 to 300 Kg/acre 3 Low nitrogen content in soil *Seed treatment with azatobacter ,azosporillum *Cultivation of leguminous crops such as pulses. 4 Low Organic carbon content Application of vermicompost, farm yard manure 5 Micronutrient deficiency Application of Boron,Feso4,Znso4,mgso4,Cuso4 as per soil frtility status during land preparation 6 Low p in soils soil Application of VAM fungi PSB which increase uptake of p by plant 7 Low k in soils soil Application of vermicompost, farm yard manures,boi fertilizers 6 . II. Statement showing the Seed Distribution particulars during Kharif-2015 under Seed Management Plan in Yerraguntla Mandal S.No Name of the Crop/S.Treatment chemical Allotted (Qtls) Positioned (Qtls) Distributed (Qtls) 1 Ground Nut 1035 915.6 915.6 Red gram 25 23.4 23.4 3 Daincha 105 95.4 95.4 4 Greengram 5 14.4 14.4 5 T.Viridae 0.5 0.5 0.5 2 Yerraguntla