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Virginia baccy farmers from Jangareddygudem mandal successful Eluru territory met YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy astatine the party’s cardinal bureau connected Thursday and raised concerns implicit the interaction of accrued Central taxes connected their livelihood.
The farmers told Mr. Jagan that the steep hike successful excise work and GST connected Virginia baccy and cigarettes by the Central authorities has severely affected the sector.
The higher taxes person led to a diminution successful request for tobacco, resulting successful falling prices and reduced procurement, pushing farmers into fiscal distress, they said. Warning that the concern could worsen further if contiguous alleviation measures were not taken, the farmers pointed retired that baccy growers successful respective districts person launched protests, seeking a rollback connected the taxation hikes.
They submitted a memorandum to Mr. Jagan, detailing the difficulties owed to the argumentation changes.
Mr. Jagan assured that the YSRCP would instrumentality up the contented astatine the nationalist level. He said the economical situation faced by baccy farmers would beryllium brought to the attraction of the Central authorities and assured that YSRCP MPs would rise the substance during the Budget Session successful Parliament.
Chintalapudi YSRCP in-charge Kambham Vijayaraju, NLS Virginia Tobacco Farmers’ Association president Satram Venkata Rao, vice-president Atluri Satish, caput Satyanarayana, husbandman leaders Sattenapalli Veeraraju, and Machilipatnam Parliamentary YSRCP perceiver Jetti Gurnadha Rao were contiguous during the meeting.
