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Andhra Pradesh tops in GGI ranking in agriculture & allied sectors.
Dec 27, 2021

In what could be a shot in the arm for the state, AP topped the charts in Good Governance Index (GGI) ranking in Agriculture and Allied Sectors (AAS) in the country. It was placed second in social development and welfare. While AP achieved 10th rank in overall performance in GGI report released by the Centre on Saturday, the state fared way ahead of many states in AAS.

The GGI report was readied by the department of administrative reforms and public grievances. It is a biannual exercise taken up by the Centre. The Centre has constituted a Group of Secretaries (GoS) to make suitable recommendations to take up the GGI study. The Centre considered the performance of different states in 58 parameters in 10 key sectors before giving the ranks.

The growth rate in agriculture and allied sectors touched a remarkable double-digit at 11.3 from 6.3 in 2019. This is almost 100 per cent growth rate. While the growth in the horticulture produce is 12.3 per cent from a mere 4.7 per cent, milk production set a new record at 11.7. This was around 1.4 per cent in 2019.

It was a bumper-to-bumper record in meat production as it touched 10.3 per cent from minus 6.7 per cent. AP's performance in crop insurance implementation is a model as it scored 26.1 per cent on the table of 30. In the last study, AP's score stood at 20.2 Gujarath is next to AP in crop insurance with 23.1 per cent. Haryana is the leader in the crop insurance indicator as it scored 34 per cent points. Telangana scored just 20.8 in crop insurance segment while its overall growth rate in agriculture and allied sectors is just 2.7 against AP's 11.7 per cent.

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