7 months ago
2
YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of abandoning the farming assemblage and creating a “man-made calamity” successful Andhra Pradesh’s agriculture sector.
Addressing a video league with determination coordinators and territory presidents from the party’s cardinal bureau astatine Tadepalli adjacent present connected Thursday, Mr. Jagan reviewed the cyclone-hit districts successful the aftermath of Cyclone Montha and assessed the information of farmers affected by harvest losses.
Mr. Jagan recalled that during the erstwhile YSRCP regime, the authorities had implemented a escaped harvest security strategy covering 85 lakh farmers and 70 lakh acres, with the State paying the full premium. Over ₹7,802 crore was disbursed arsenic compensation to 54.55 lakh farmers successful 5 years, helium said.
In contrast, helium alleged that nether the contiguous conjugation government, security sum shrunk drastically to 19 lakh farmers and 19 lakh acres, constricted lone to those who took slope loans. “For 2 years, not adjacent a azygous season’s premium has been paid by this government. The remainder of the farmers person been near exposed — wherever is harvest information now? This is intelligibly a man-made calamity,” helium said.
Mr. Jagan charged that the TDP-led authorities failed to supply adjacent basal input subsidies, contempt pending payments of ₹600 crore to 5.5 lakh farmers. Key initiatives specified arsenic e-Crop registration and Rythu Bharosa Kendras were dismantled, and farmers were deprived of just prices and procurement support.
He listed unfulfilled promises, including chilli procurement astatine ₹11,781 per quintal, mango astatine ₹12 per kg, bulb astatine ₹1,200 per quintal, and the promised ₹50,000 per hectare compensation for harvest loss. “Under Annadata Sukhibhava, farmers were expected to person ₹40,000 but got lone ₹5,000, a wide enactment of cheating by Mr. Naidu,” helium said, adding that the government’s publicity during Cyclone Montha was “louder than its alleviation connected the ground.”
Commending YSRCP cadres for helping affected families during the cyclone, Mr. Jagan urged them to show the harvest nonaccomplishment enumeration process intimately to guarantee fairness and forestall manipulation. “No husbandman should beryllium denied compensation. If officials perpetrate mistakes, our leaders indispensable question and close them,” helium said.
