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Climate of Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh is situated on the south eastern coast of India and is the eighth largest state in India. Hyderabad is the capital of both Andhra Pradesh as well as Telangana but it remains the de jure capital for Andhra Pradesh. The state is planning to make Amravati its new capital. … Read more
Irrigation and Hydropower Projects of Andhra Pradesh Geographically, Andhra Pradesh is in peninsular India consisting of coastal belt on the east and Rayalaseema in the south-west. Therefore, Andhra Pradesh has the advantage of having most of the east flowing rivers in the state bringing in copious supplies from the Western and Eastern Ghats and up … Read more
The State is endowed with a wide variety of soils having less fertile coastal sands to highly fertile and productive deltaic alluviums of major river basins developed from different parent materials. The major Soil groups are red and laterite, black, alluvial and coastal soils occupying 66, 25, 5 and 3 per cent of the … Read more
Wildlife of Andhra Pradesh is very rich and the various sanctuaries and national parks protect it. These are good source of ecotourism in the Andhra Pradesh. Ecotourism have potential in Andhra Pradesh due to various wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. National parks of Andhra Pradesh S. No. Name of National Park State Total Area (In … Read more
Andhra Pradesh is well connected to other states with road, rail. It is also connected to other countries by means airways and seaports as well. With a long seacoast along the Bay of Bengal, it also has many Ports for sea trade. The state has one of the largest railway junctions at Vijayawada and … Read more
Andhra Pradesh has varied topography. It varies from the hills of Eastern Ghats and Nallamala Hills to the shores of Bay of Bengal. Fig: Andhra Pradesh-Political Map Two main river of Andhra Pradesh;Krishna and Godavari, flows through the state. The state has two regions Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema. The plains to the east … Read more
Andhra Pradesh is very rich in terms of Minerals availability. Andhra Pradesh is first in production of below minerals in India: Asbestos Limestone Mica Barytes Now we will see status of Andhra Pradesh in various minerals Mica: Andhra Pradesh is the largest mica producing state of India.The mica mining area lies in Nellore … Read more
INFRASTRUCTURE for Post Harvest Management and providing access to domestic, and export markets.Horticulture sector contributes approximately 5.16% of the State GSDP. Horticulture sector identified as one of the Growth engines to contribute GSDP growth in state of Andhra Pradesh Five Layer Model of Horticulture crops: To boost horticulture production and to keep a … Read more
Introduction: Andhra Pradesh occupies an important position in the fishing sector of India. The State has the longest coastline (982 kms.) spread over eight marine districts next to Gujarat. Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of fishermen villages (408) in the East Coast . It occupies second and third position in the size of … Read more
The total notified forest area of the State is 36914.69 Km2 , which is 22.73 % of the geographical area. They include Reserved, Protected- and UN-classed forests. The Kadapa has the highest notified forest area of 5041.26Km2 and the Krishna has the lowest notified forest area of 664.28 Km2 in the State. As regards … Read more