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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) wide caput M.V.S. Nagi Reddy connected Saturday criticised the conjugation authorities for “pushing the farming assemblage into a heavy crisis” done its negligence and failed cultivation policies.
Addressing a property league astatine the YSRCP Central Office successful Tadepalli, Mr. Nagi Reddy said the State was witnessing 1 of the sharpest declines successful cultivation successful decades. During the five-year tenure of erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, an mean of 32.94 lakh hectares was cultivated each kharif season. Under the contiguous conjugation regime, this has dropped to 28.19 lakh hectares, helium said, adding that the diminution had caused a nonaccomplishment of implicit ₹3,000 crore successful cultivation employment and accumulation value.
He alleged that the authorities had withdrawn the escaped harvest security scheme, leaving farmers helpless successful the look of droughts and floods. Crops specified arsenic paddy, chilli, tobacco, mango, bulb and herb had suffered extended damage, but the authorities failed to supply immoderate compensation oregon relief, helium claimed.
“When Mr. Jagan assumed office, the State treasury had lone ₹100 crore, yet the authorities stood firmly by farmers, who ne'er faced specified hardships. Today, contempt ₹7,000 crore being available, the Chandrababu Naidu authorities has not released adjacent the 2nd instalment of input support,” Mr. Nagi Reddy said.
He besides faulted the authorities for not ensuring minimum enactment prices (MSP) and delaying payments to farmers. The removal of payment measures specified arsenic harvest security and input assistance had forced farmers to dump their nutrient — mangoes, onions and tomatoes — connected roads, helium said, calling it “an unprecedented and tragic situation.”
Revealing that 29 farmers had ended their lives since the conjugation came to power, helium alleged that nary of their families had received compensation. Mr. Nagi Reddy demanded the contiguous restoration of harvest insurance, merchandise of pending fiscal assistance, and revival of procurement operations done MARKFED.
“The agrarian system is collapsing. Farmers and cultivation labourers person mislaid their livelihoods. This is not development, it is destruction,” helium said, urging the authorities to enactment swiftly to support farmers earlier the concern worsens.
