Andhra Pradesh to Launch GST 2.0 Awareness Drive Targeting Farmers

A major awareness campaign on the benefits of GST 2.0 reforms will be held in Andhra Pradesh on September 30 and October 1, with a special focus on farmers and allied sectors. 

District, mandal and RSK-level seminars, tractor rallies, and farm machinery exhibitions are being organised to explain the extensive tax relief measures. 

Director of agriculture Dilli Rao said on Sunday that under



the new GST policy, effective from September 22, the tax rate on fertilisers, pesticides, micronutrients, and bio-pesticides has been reduced from 12 per cent to 5 per cent. 

Similarly, tractor spare parts will now attract a 5 per cent tax instead of 18 per cent. For agriculture-linked sectors, including fisheries and animal husbandry, 837 items have seen their tax rate reduced from 18 per cent to 5 per cent.