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The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham has urged the State authorities to instantly widen enactment to banana and maize farmers who are facing distress owed to the deficiency of remunerative prices and marketplace facilities for their produce.
In a connection connected Wednesday, Sangham State president V. Krishnaiah and wide caput K. Prabhakar Reddy said banana farmers successful Anantapur territory were being forced to destruct their crops arsenic they were incapable to unafraid the minimum prices for their produce. The authorities indispensable guarantee marketplace facilities and a enactment terms of ₹15,000 per tonne done Markfed to forestall further losses of farmers, they said.
Maize growers successful Nandyal, Sri Sathya Sai, Kurnool and Anantapur districts were not receiving the government-declared Minimum Support Price (MSP), they claimed and demanded that the authorities unfastened procurement centres instantly and acquisition maize done Markfed astatine the MSP of ₹2,400 per quintal.
They criticised Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, saying his declaration that Rayalaseema would beryllium developed into a ‘fruit basket’ had turned into a ‘fruit dustbin’ owed to the deficiency of authorities involution during this situation situation.
Urging the authorities to enactment the tenant farmers, they said that the concern assistance of ₹20,000 per twelvemonth being provided to farmers should besides beryllium extended to those cultivating connected lease.
They reminded the authorities that the TDP had promised afloat enactment to tenant farmers earlier the elections, including implementation of a tenancy law. “The authorities indispensable guarantee enactment for tenant farmers nether the Annadata Sukhibhava strategy and guarantee they get the assistance of ₹20,000,” they said.
