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VIJAYAWADA
The Andhra Pradesh Tenant Farmers’ Association connected Wednesday accused the State authorities of neglecting tenant farmers and failing to fulfil predetermination promises, adjacent aft being 22 months successful power.
Association State wide caput P. Jamalaiah alleged that nary of the assurances made to tenant farmers person been implemented and demanded the contiguous instauration of a caller tenancy instrumentality to safeguard their rights and livelihoods.
Responding to a Statewide call, protests were held astatine territory Collectorates, with memorandums submitted to officials. In Vijayawada, a objection took spot astatine the Collector’s office, wherever a practice was handed implicit to District Revenue Officer M. Lakshmi Narasimha.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Jamalaiah called for simplified issuance of individuality cards to tenant farmers from April 1 and demanded harvest loans up to ₹2 lakh without surety, successful enactment with RBI norms. He criticised the authorities for allocating lone ₹1,500 crore to tenant farmers portion extending implicit ₹2 lakh crore successful harvest loans, alleging that landowners payment much than existent cultivators.
He said tenant farmers person suffered terrible losses owed to earthy calamities and pest attacks, portion trader syndicates exploit them with debased prices. Citing distress, helium claimed implicit 300 husbandman suicides, mostly tenant farmers, and alleged deficiency of ex gratia enactment to affected families.
The relation urged the authorities to guarantee just procurement, support farmers from lenders, and found a monitoring strategy for payment schemes.
