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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) wide caput M.V.S. Nagi Reddy has alleged that much than 300 farmers person ended their beingness aft the NDA authorities came to powerfulness successful the State arsenic the agriculture assemblage has plunged into a crisis.
The conjugation authorities failed to amended the batch of farmers, and, arsenic a consequence, astatine slightest 2 farmers were committing termination each week, Mr. Nagi Reddy said portion addressing the media astatine the enactment bureau successful Tadepalli connected Saturday. Demanding that remedial enactment beryllium taken forthwith, helium said farmers were successful distress due to the fact that of unremunerative prices.
He said the YSRCP authorities had paid ₹5 lakh each to the families of 474 farmers who ended their beingness successful 2014-19. Mr. Nagi Reddy said the NDA authorities should wage an ex gratia of much than ₹7 lakh connected humanitarian grounds. He demanded that the farmers’ payment schemes introduced by the YSRCP beryllium restored. He said that the prices of chilli, tobacco, banana, maize, cotton, onion, tomato, sugarcane and mango declined steeply, causing immense losses to the farmers.
