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The YSR Congress Party wide caput and erstwhile Andhra Pradesh State Agriculture Mission vice-chairman M. V. S. Nagi Reddy has alleged that baccy farmers successful Andhra Pradesh were reeling nether a terrible fiscal situation owing to falling auction prices and rising cultivation costs.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, Mr. Nagi Reddy claimed that baccy farmers had suffered losses of astir ₹3,100 crore during the past 2 rabi seasons compared to the 2023-24 play erstwhile the YSRCP authorities was successful powerfulness nether erstwhile Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He said the mean baccy price, which stood astatine ₹288.65 per kg successful 2023-24 with accumulation of 215.35 cardinal kg, fell to ₹248.86 per kg successful 2024-25 contempt accumulation expanding to 240.64 cardinal kg. According to him, farmers incurred losses of astir ₹1,199 crore during the archetypal rabi play nether the contiguous authorities due to the fact that of little prices and higher cultivation expenses.
For the ongoing 2025-26 season, Mr. Nagi Reddy said accumulation was estimated astatine much than 260 cardinal kg, portion the mean auction terms up to May 25 had declined further to ₹237.21 per kg. In the confederate achromatic ungraded regions of Ongole, prices reportedly fell to astir ₹212 per kg.
Alleging that farmers suffered an further nonaccomplishment of ₹1,901 crore this play owed to declining prices and rising input costs, helium besides expressed interest implicit the expanding rejection of baccy bales astatine auction platforms successful Ongole, Kandukur and West Godavari districts.
Mr. Nagi Reddy criticised the State authorities for failing to intervene contempt the deepening situation and urged it to instrumentality steps to guarantee remunerative prices for cultivation produce. Continued distress successful the workplace sector, helium warned, would adversely impact the agrarian system arsenic good arsenic the State’s revenues.
