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The YSRCP has accused the NDA authorities of neglecting farmers’ issues and making mendacious declarations successful the Assembly.
Speaking to the media astatine the enactment cardinal bureau astatine Tadepalli connected Sunday, YSRCP wide caput (Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare) M.V.S. Nagi Reddy alleged that the authorities failed to guarantee remunerative prices for farmers, peculiarly chickpea (Bengal gram) cultivators.
Mr. Nagi Reddy said the authorities was insensitive to the distress of chickpea farmers, arsenic prices had sharply declined owed to reduced import duties. While the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for chickpea was announced astatine ₹5,800 per quintal, farmers would inactive incur losses without an further ₹1,000 bonus. The State authorities failed to exert unit connected the Centre to reinstate higher import tariffs, helium said.
According to him, chickpea cultivation had been undertaken successful astir 3.72 lakh hectares this Rabi season, with accumulation expected to transcend 7 lakh tonnes. However, procurement had not yet commenced, and farmers were reportedly selling astatine importantly little prices successful markets specified arsenic Kurnool and Adoni, wherever rates had fallen to astir ₹5,089 and ₹4,939 per quintal, respectively.
Raising concerns astir maize farmers, helium said maize cultivation covered implicit 4.37 lakh hectares this season, mostly successful Rayalaseema. Despite an MSP of ₹2,400 per quintal past Kharif season, farmers reportedly sold maize astatine astir ₹1,400.
The YSRCP person criticised delays successful completing the e-crop registration process, stating that procurement linked to cardinal allocations of 94,500 tonnes astatine ₹8,775 per quintal had not begun. He alleged that the government’s inaction was forcing farmers to merchantability nutrient beneath MSP.
The YSRCP person accused the Agriculture Minister of making misleading statements successful the Assembly regarding escaped energy proviso and cultivation procurement. He asserted that escaped powerfulness to horticulture crops and nurseries was introduced during the erstwhile authorities and that cultivation powerfulness proviso was streamlined to daytime.
“Instead of making expansive announcements successful the Assembly, the authorities indispensable enactment connected the ground,” Mr. Nagi Reddy said, urging contiguous steps to unafraid further procurement approvals from the Centre and support farmers from fiscal distress.
