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The Andhra Pradesh Tenant Farmers’ Association has powerfully opposed the State government’s projected Urea Card policy, alleging that it would deprive tenant farmers of entree to subsidised fertilisers and propulsion them into deeper fiscal distress.
In a property connection issued connected Thursday, relation State president A. Katamayya and State wide caput P. Jamalayya criticised the authorities for allegedly targeting farmers alternatively of acting against traders and dealers progressive successful the black-market merchantability of fertilisers.
The leaders alleged that the projected strategy of issuing urea cards lone to farmers possessing onshore ownership passbooks and e-Crop registration would severely impact tenant farmers, who cultivate astir 70 to 80% of the cultivation onshore successful the State. They said astir tenant farmers were incapable to unafraid e-Crop registration arsenic landowners often refused to supply passbooks oregon consent for issuing tenant recognition cards.
According to them, the authorities had promised, aft coming to power, to simplify the process relating to tenant husbandman recognition cards, but had failed to fulfil those assurances. They said tenant farmers were already excluded from respective payment measures, including Crop Cultivator Rights Cards (CCRC), organization harvest loans and schemes specified arsenic Annadata Sukhibhava.
The relation leaders warned that denying subsidised urea to tenant farmers would unit them to bargain fertilisers astatine higher prices successful the unfastened market, placing an unbearable fiscal load connected cultivators already struggling with mounting debts and rising input costs.
They demanded that the State authorities instantly retreat the projected Urea Card argumentation and alternatively contented cultivation certificates to each genuine tenant farmers actively cultivating onshore done the Agriculture Department. They said subsidised fertilisers, including urea, should beryllium supplied connected the ground of these cultivation certificates without restrictions.
Warning of statewide protests, the tenant farmers’ leaders said the authorities indispensable retreat what they termed an “anti-farmer” argumentation and guarantee justness to lakhs of tenant farmers babelike connected agriculture for survival.
