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The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham connected Sunday demanded contiguous withdrawal of the caller hike successful the prices of fertilizers, and petrol and diesel, alleging that the Centre’s policies were pushing the agriculture assemblage into a heavy situation up of the 2026 kharif season.
In a statement, Sangham State president V. Krishnayya and State caput K. Prabhakar Reddy said companies had accrued prices of analyzable fertilizers doubly successful a span of 15 days, citing West Asia situation arsenic a reason. The Centre was allowing the companies to displacement the load of rising costs onto the farmers alternatively of protecting the cultivation sector, they alleged.
The relation leaders said adjacent FACT, a fertilizer institution nether the Central government, had accrued prices again, indirectly encouraging backstage and cooperative companies to travel suit.
The Centre should supply subsidies to fertilizer manufacturers and guarantee that farmers were not burdened with further costs, they demanded.
The sangham leaders besides criticised the caller summation successful petrol and diesel prices by implicit ₹3 per litre, informing that further hikes could severely impact farmers babelike connected substance for cultivation and transport activities.
‘Harassment of farmers’
They besides condemned the alleged harassment of farmers astatine Bhogapuram successful Srikakulam district, wherever land-losers protesting against attack roadworthy works for the airdrome task were allegedly manhandled.
The leaders alleged that officials, contractors and constabulary had forcibly entered farmlands without paying compensation and utilized dense machinery to proceed enactment contempt protests by the affected farmers. They demanded transgression enactment against the officials, contractors and dense machinery operators progressive successful the incident.
