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The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) wide caput and erstwhile Andhra Pradesh State Agriculture Mission Vice-Chairman, M.V.S. Nagi Reddy, has urged the State authorities to intervene instantly to code the deepening agrarian crisis, peculiarly the difficulties faced by Totapuri mango growers.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, Mr. Nagi Reddy said farmers cultivating chickpea, maize, banana, tobacco, aquaculture products and mangoes were reeling nether falling marketplace prices and rising input costs. Andhra Pradesh, which has astir 3.99 lakh hectares nether mango cultivation and is expected to nutrient astir 53 lakh tonnes of the effect this year, has suffered important losses owing to unseasonal upwind and fungal diseases, helium said.
He said Totapuri mango growers successful Chittoor, Tirupati and Annamayya districts had been deed particularly hard. Lower yields, anemic request from pulp industries and mediocre procurement prices person near galore farmers incapable to retrieve their cultivation costs.
Mr. Nagi Reddy alleged that though the authorities had announced a enactment terms mechanics past twelvemonth with an assurance of ₹12 per kg, pulp factories paid lone ₹5-₹6 per kg alternatively of the promised ₹8.
Expressing interest implicit a reported diminution successful mango acreage successful respective districts, helium said recurring losses appeared to beryllium forcing farmers to wantonness orchards. While cultivation expenses person accrued substantially, procurement prices person dropped to ₹5-₹6 per kg this season, helium added.
Demanding a minimum procurement terms of ₹16-₹17 per kg, Mr. Nagi Reddy called for contiguous authorities intervention, fiscal assistance for affected farmers and the constitution of a high-level committee to urge alleviation measures and support the livelihoods of mango growers.
