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To: RealMuLan who wrote (4342)	2/6/2005 12:19:54 AM
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YSR finds not just Maoists in China Sunday February 6 2005 00:00 IST HYDERABAD: To give a further fillip to its rural-oriented policies, the Andhra Pradesh government intends to adopt the practices followed by China to enhance agricultural productivity and promote crop diversification. A special cell will be created in the AP Agriculture University here to undertake a micro analysis of the Chinese model and suitably adapt it to the local conditions. Farm sector policies apart, the unique garbage collection and disposal system existing in the urban areas of China will also be studied by a separate team of officials. The proposals were announced by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy at a news conference here on Saturday on his return from a six-day tour of China. According to him, the team led by him noted how the Chinese economy has transformed itself from mandatory controls system to a regime of guided planning with the major focus on agriculture, farmers and rural areas. "What is significant is the per capita arable land is less in China as compared to India. But the productivity per hectare is almost three times higher than us," Reddy pointed out. The Chief Minister said that the special cell proposed in the agriculture university would go into specific details of how China was able to achieve such high productivity levels. Likewise, encouraging diversification of rural livelihood particularly in dryland areas - from farming to animal husbandry - will be the focus of the government in future. Reddy was particularly impressed with the massive Rs 90,000 crore project taken up by China. The Three Gorges project involves increasing the flood control capacity to protect 1.6 million hectares of fertile land, setting up the largest hydropower plant with a capacity of 18,000 MW and providing waterway for navigation. "If they can implement such a huge project which will be completed soon, why can't we build irrigation projects?" the Chief Minister reasoned, in an obvious reply to criticism from Opposition parties that his government would not be able to execute farm schemes worth over Rs 40,000 crore in the next five years newindpress.com