International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE) ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-7, Issue-6C2, April 2019 Development of Agri Infrastructure Model for Tadikonda Mandal, Guntur, District, Andhra Pradesh K. Lokesh, K. Rajasekhara Reddy Abstract: In India approximately Rs.92,000 crores worth aggregators or processors. Being an agrarian country Indian Agricultural produce is damaged. About 35% of perishable farmer require long term strategic and sustainable solutions, Agricultural products (fruits, vegetables, meat, milk) and non- minimizing risk instead of short-term rhetorical promises of perishable Agricultural products are damaged annually before the government such as loan waiver and subsidized inputs. reaching consumer due to lack of proper infrastructure facilities such as transportation, storage facility, processing, packing, etc. This process involves addressing challenges such as weak Hence, there is an immediate need to improve the Agricultural producer-consumer linkage, weak supplier power, infrastructure to prevent loss, meeting food requirements of the technology starved, lack of adequate Agriculture country, improving the income of farmers. On an average about infrastructure along value chain, customized approach to 12,000 farmers are committed suicide per annum since 2013 as different crop groups, focus on Agricultural extension, the farming has become non- remunerative which has led to debit availability of quality inputs in right time. trap. This paper aims at understanding the infrastructure need for Agriculture and come up with an infrastructure model for Every year throwing of tomato is common in Madanapalli Tadikonda Mandal of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh which will of Chittor district, Andhra Pradesh as and when prices clash. help in meeting the ambitious objective of government of India in Prices fluctuates from Rs.1 to Rs.20 in whole sale market. doubling the farmers income by 2022. Agricultural infrastructure Same is observed in the case of onion in Kurnool district of involves water for irrigation, transport facility, post harvesting Andhra Pradesh and Nasik district of Maharashtra. facilities, grading, processing, packing, marketing, etc. The In India the capacity of storage godowns available for existing infrastructure for Agricultural, Agricultural production in the study area is understood, questionnaire survey is carried food storage is around 95 million metric tons and around 45 out among the various concern stakeholders to understand their million MT capacity is estimated to be required for storing needs and expectations, identified the gap between the existing food products [1]. The increase in Agricultural productivity and expectations of the stakeholders. Also identified the depends on well rural infrastructure, well domestic markets infrastructure required for sustainable green revolution, and approach to these technologies [2]. Rural roads are not collected the information regarding various schemes of central only connecting the rural areas but also helps in changing and state government that are suitable for the identified infrastructure and modes of finance for the identified the crop pattern due to easy access of Agricultural inputs infrastructure are evolved. and outputs from Agricultural fields to markets [3]. The Index terms: Agricultural infrastructure, doubling farmers nutrients and fertility of the soil are the keys to the yield of income, schemes, modes of finance the Agriculture [4]. Farmers suicides as a percentage of total suicides are 23.5 % in Maharashtra [5]. Farmer S. Raju who I. INTRODUCTION lives in Ananthapur district has thrown away about 2 tonnes More than 60% of population in India is depending on of tomato after realized that he won’t get the transportation Agriculture and allied activities directly or indirectly. Agri charges even if he sells it in the market [6]. infrastructure is the vital input for development of In 2018 farmers burnt chilli without even plunk from the Agriculture in India. India’s major Agriculture produce fields in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states due to crash losses estimated at Rs. 92,651 crores per year according to of prices of chilli [7]. It is reported that only 10-11% of data published by the Ministry of food processing industries. fruits and vegetables cultivated in India use cold storage due About 16% of fruits and vegetables valued at Rs. 40,811 are to expenses involved and lack of suitable facilities [8]. damaged every year, according to an analysis of production Finance is another set-back. Due to lack of finance and data between 2012 and 2014 at whole sale price by Central liquidity, farmers are compelled to sell their produce Institute of Postharvest Engineering and Technology, immediately, within days of harvest, at any prevailing rate. Ludhiana. According to report by the National crime records bureau Be it out-break of pests at production, erratic rainfall, [9] total farmers committed suicide are shown in table.1 natural calamities, poor quality of seeds, indefinite power Table.1 Statistics of farmers committed suicide supply or losses in storage and transport or price uncertainty. While marketing, the risk is not distributed Year Total farmer suicides in India evenly among the other stakeholders like grain traders, 2005 17,131 2006 17,060 Revised Manuscript Received on April 15, 2019. 2007 16,632 K. Lokesh, PG Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation Deemed to be University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, A.P, India K. Rajasekhara Reddy, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation Deemed to be University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, A.P, India Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering Retrieval Number: F11510476C219 /19©BEIESP 813 & Sciences Publication International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE-2019) | 21-23 March 2019 | K L Deemed to be University, Vijayawada, A.P. India 2008 16,796 Collection of literature 2009 17,368 2010 15,964 2011 14,024 Selection of study area 2012 13,754 2013 11,772 2014 12,360 Identifying existing infrastructure 2015 12.602 Tadikonda Mandal of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh is Conducting questionnaire survey taken as study area and it is having 12 villages with a population of 67,962 as per 2011 census with an area 194.23km2. Area under commercial crops is highest in Identifying gap between existing and expectations of Tadikonda in Guntur district. The major crops cultivated in the Tadikonda Mandal are paddy, Chilli, cotton, black gram, the stakeholders chickpea, etc. II. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE AND OBJECTIVES Mapping of schemes and financial sources Farmers are continuing the profession as they can’t do any other job, have no alternatives in spite of getting debit Cost estimation for the identified infrastructure trapped due the losses or migrating to urban areas in search of jobs. Quality of power supply is very poor and sometimes power is supplied to pumps during nights. Cost of storage of Proposing suitable Agri infrastructure model Agri produce in cold storage is very high and the crops are getting effected to attack of pests. There is no value chain, Fig.1- Flow chart of methodology adequate market infrastructure, storage facility is inadequate. Producer and consumer linkage are very weak. IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION In the view of the above there is a need to identify A. Existing Infrastructure infrastructure needs of the selected area and develop a The existing infrastructure related to Agriculture is model for Agricultural infrastructure to address the issue. presented in table. 2 There is also a need to improve infrastructure in line with the ambitious objective of “doubling the farmers income in Table-2 Existing infrastructure related to Agriculture India by 2022” of government of India and converting 100% Sector Infrastructure of the farmers in Andhra Pradesh to ZBNF to make Water for irrigation No canals, no bore wells for Agricultural sustainable and prevent farmers suicides. irrigation, few small tanks are The main objective of this study is to identify the existing catering to irrigation water for infrastructure in Tadikonda Mandal and to conduct a paddy questionnaire survey to identify the infrastructure needs of Value addition/ Rice mills – 6no. cotton jinning the farmers and to come up with an Agri infrastructure primary processing units – 2no, markets – 20%. model that is suitable to Tadikonda Mandal. The various Conventional storage Bulk storage godowns -2 no. for schemes of state and central government that are best suited facility individual storage, 80% of for funding the identified infrastructure are also presented. farmers are storing using The approximate estimation of cost of the infrastructure is tarpaulins in open place also prepared. Cold storage Nil Road connectivity for Kaccha cart tracks are available III. METHODOLOGY transportation of farm to 70% of the region but it is The literature review is carried out, the existing inputs and Agri difficult to transport the Agricultural infrastructure, facilities and services are produce fertilizers, other inputs and collected from various concerned offices. The various Agricultural outputs during rainy stakeholders involved in the study area are identified. A days questionnaire survey is carried out among the identified Consumer market for Markets – 20 stalls other than stakeholders to collect the expectations and requirements. Agri produce kerana shops, good access to The gap between the existing and