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Andhra Pradesh BJP president P. V. N. Madhav has urged Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to intervene instantly to enactment mango farmers facing a terrible situation successful the Rayalaseema region, peculiarly successful Chittoor district.
In a missive to the Chief Minister, Mr. Madhav said mango cultivation covers astir 2.5 lakh acres successful Chittoor district, with the Totapuri assortment accounting for astir 70% of the acreage. Farmers walk betwixt ₹35,000 and ₹45,000 per acre connected cultivation, but are presently getting little than ₹4 a kg for their produce, resulting successful dense losses, helium said.
The BJP person said the crisp autumn successful prices had pushed thousands of mango-growing families into fiscal distress and warned that the concern could worsen if contiguous corrective measures were not taken.
Mr. Madhav urged the State authorities to measurement successful and guarantee that mango pulp units and processing industries connection remunerative prices to farmers. He besides sought an introspection of the feasibility of introducing a Minimum Support Price (MSP) for mangoes and measures to amended returns to growers done the pulp-processing sector.
Calling for a broad strategy to code the problems faced by mango farmers, helium urged the authorities to supply contiguous alleviation and dainty the contented arsenic a priority. He expressed anticipation that the State authorities would respond positively and denote alleviation measures astatine the earliest to safeguard the interests of mango growers crossed the region.
