Banana farmers are in distress, says Andhra Pradesh Congress chief Sharmila

Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila connected Friday said banana farmers were successful distress successful the State. “The harvest that erstwhile showered wealthiness is present bringing tears to the farmers,” she said connected X. While the farmers drowned successful losses, the conjugation authorities remained indifferent to their distress, she alleged. She pointed retired that the terms crashed from ₹28,000 per tonne to conscionable ₹1,000 per tonne, and accused the authorities of doing thing to alleviate their woes.

Holding the Horticulture Department liable for the crisis, Ms. Sharmila said the farmers were forced to dump the harvest arsenic cattle feed. She demanded that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu nonstop the officials to probe the origin of terms clang and guarantee farmers received astatine slightest ₹25,000 per tonne arsenic a remunerative price.