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The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham on with the Andhra Pradesh Tenant Farmers’ Association person urged the State authorities to heighten harvest loans, summation subsidies connected cultivation inputs and supply compensation for harvest losses to farmers’ and tenant cultivators earlier the commencement of the Kharif season.
The associations staged a dharna successful Vijayawada connected Monday and aboriginal submitted a memorandum to NTR District Collector Dr. G. Lakshmisha. Addressing the gathering, Tenant Farmers’ Association State wide caput P. Jamalaiah and Rythu Sangham State vice-president Malneedi Yalamanda Rao demanded that the authorities summation the ‘scale of finance’ successful enactment with rising cultivation costs and widen harvest loans up to ₹2 lakh to tenant farmers without insisting connected collateral oregon guarantees.
They besides sought a proviso of seeds for each large crops, including greenish manure crops, with a 90% subsidy, and called for measures to curb escalating effect prices. The leaders further demanded the contiguous merchandise of funds for the Munneru Barrage, Kanchala–Vedadri and Tarakarama Lift Irrigation projects and urged the authorities to undertake repairs to guarantee capable irrigation h2o supply. They demanded that ‘Operation Budameru’ beryllium taken up connected a warfare footing to support farmers from recurring flooding and drainage issues.
Referring to the predetermination promises of the NDA government, they sought simplified issuance of cultivation designation cards to tenant farmers and compensation of ₹21,000 per acre for maize growers nether the ‘Price Deficiency Payment Scheme’. They besides demanded ₹1 lakh per acre compensation for horticultural crops damaged by the caller unseasonal rains, hailstorms, and beardown winds. Among the different demands were expanding the ‘Annadata Sukhibhava’ assistance to ₹50,000, extending benefits to tenant farmers, reducing fertiliser prices, supplying cultivation substance astatine ₹35 per litre without taxes, and waiving harvest loans up to ₹2 lakh. Farmer and CPI leaders participated successful the protest.
