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Andhra Pradesh is a leading performer in agriculture and allied sectors excluding forestry and logging, with a compound annual growth rate of 8.8 per cent from 2011-12 to 2020-21. AP was followed by Madhya Pradesh with 6.3 per cent and Tamil Nadu with 4.8 per cent, among major performers. This was revealed in the Economic Survey 2025 presented in Parliament on Friday, prior to Saturday’s presentation of the Union Budget, by Finance Minister Nirmala
According to the survey report, the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme aims to create advanced industrial cities in the country, positioning them as major manufacturing and investment hubs. Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is one such city to be developed. AP has adopted diversification of crops where yield is high. It has taken up jowar, given its significant potential to enhance productivity and to reduce the yield gap.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research calculates the composite index of agriculture sustainability by using 51 indicators related to environmental health, soil and water quality and socioeconomic development. The average estimated value of the index is 0.49, suggesting that Indian agriculture is moderately sustainable. AP is one of the states performing better than the national average. The ‘Prerana Model of Education’ is being implemented in AP through the Sikshana Foundation and it lays stress on peer learning and group work.
AP along with 16 other states/UTs have increased the threshold for applicability of the Factories Act from 20 to 40 (without power) in order to extend the protection of the Factories Act to a large number of workers and to ensure workplace safety. This apart, AP is one state that has relaxed the prohibition to employ women in night shifts for IT-enabled services industries by instituting conditional exemptions. The state started to deregulate women’s opportunities by moving to a permission-based system and to a condition-based system, the survey report noted
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