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The Andhra Pradesh Tenant Farmers’ Association (APTFA) has urged the State authorities to guarantee that the precocious announced fiscal assistance for bulb cultivation reaches tenant farmers.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, relation president A. Katamayya and wide caput P. Jamalayya welcomed the government’s determination to supply fiscal enactment of ₹50,000 per hectare to bulb faqrmers.
However, they pointed retired that a bulk of those cultivating onions are tenant farmers, galore of whom person not been issued tenant designation cards owed to restrictive provisions successful the Andhra Pradesh Crop Cultivators Rights Act.
They requested the authorities to place tenant farmers who person cultivated onions, contented them cultivation certificates, and widen the announced fiscal enactment straight to them.
Highlighting the economical load connected tenant farmers, the leaders said that cultivating 1 acre of onions costs astir ₹1.5 lakh, including implicit ₹20,000 paid arsenic rent. With falling marketplace prices, tenant farmers are suffering dense losses. To forestall further distress, they urged the authorities to acquisition onions astatine ₹3,000 per quintal to safeguard tenant farmers’ livelihoods.
