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The Andhra Pradesh Tenant Farmers Association has demanded the contiguous enactment of a ‘truth-finding committee’ to analyse the suicides of farmers and tenant farmers successful the State, highlighting the deepening agrarian situation and debt-related distress.
In a property merchandise connected Monday, relation State president A. Katamayya and wide caput P. Jamalayya called connected the authorities to see representatives of husbandman associations successful the committee to guarantee transparency and accountability. They pointed retired that since the conjugation authorities took power, implicit 300 farmers and tenant farmers had committed suicide, however, the medication has recognised lone 112 victims, ignoring galore deserving families.
The leaders criticised the authorities for recognising lone those with Koulu recognition cards (CCRC), arguing that galore affected families deficiency these cards owed to administrative lapses. They urged authorities to verify suicides based connected village-level records, assemblage testimonies, and constabulary reports alternatively than sole reliance connected authoritative cards.
The relation blamed authorities policies for pushing farmers to despair, citing uncontrolled increases successful input costs — fertilisers, seeds, and pesticides — arsenic good arsenic the removal of escaped harvest security schemes, deficiency of minimum enactment prices, and non-availability of input subsidies.
The leaders demanded contiguous ex gratia compensation of ₹10 lakh for each termination victim’s family, continuous inclusion of affected families successful payment schemes, enactment of a Kerala-style indebtedness alleviation law, and proactive measures to support agriculture and enactment farmers from indebtedness traps.
