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Farmers successful Andhra Pradesh person suffered a nonaccomplishment of astir ₹7,900 crore successful the past 2 years owed to the “anti-farmer policies and administrative failures” of the TDP-led NDA government, alleges YSRCP wide caput in-charge of agriculture and farmers’ payment M.V.S. Nagi Reddy.
Addressing the media astatine the enactment cardinal bureau astatine Tadepalli connected Sunday, Mr. Nagi Reddy said the agriculture assemblage was slipping into a heavy crisis, portion the authorities remained indifferent. He claimed that farmers cultivating paddy, tobacco, maize and Bengal gram incurred losses during the past 2 rabi seasons due to the fact that of falling prices, rising input costs and inadequate authorities support.
Mr. Nagi Reddy criticised the Centre for reducing fertilizer subsidies and allowing companies to summation prices of analyzable fertilizers by 10-40%. He said enactment prices for crops had seen lone marginal rise, making cultivation economically unsustainable.
Referring to the erstwhile YSRCP government, helium said farmers had received amended enactment adjacent during the COVID-19 crisis.
Mr. Nagi Reddy besides accused the authorities of mishandling urea proviso and failing to forestall achromatic marketing. He alleged that diesel and petrol terms hikes sharply accrued cultivation and proscription costs, portion unannounced powerfulness cuts were hurting the aquaculture sector.
He claimed that baccy farmers unsocial mislaid ₹2,230 crore successful 2 years, portion Bengal gram farmers suffered losses of ₹3,300 crore. Maize and paddy farmers were besides selling nutrient astatine dense losses, helium said.
