ASR district officials have included avocado, a new variety of alternative crop, as part of efforts to check ganja cultivation in Andhra Pradesh. Accordingly, the departments concerned have targeted to distribute 20 alternative crops including avocado in 10,290 acres of crop area in 11 mandals in the 2023-24 financial year. Visakhapatnam Range Deputy Inspector General Gopinath Jatti recently held a …
Hyderabad: Ganja cultivation is quickly turning into ‘opium’ for farmers who are lured by the quick money the sale of narcotics brings. Due to a lack of coordination among police, revenue, and agriculture department officials, the police have been unable to stop ganja cultivation. During a video conference, senior officials instructed all district police officers to be vigilant on ganja …
