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The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) General Secretary (Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare) M.V.S. Nagi Reddy has urged the State authorities to follow a humane attack and instantly supply input subsidy to each farmers affected by Cyclone Montha, without imposing immoderate restrictions.
Addressing a property league astatine the party’s cardinal bureau connected Tuesday, Mr. Nagi Reddy accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of continuing “anti-farmer” policies by underreporting harvest nonaccomplishment figures and denying rightful compensation.
He alleged that the authorities had deliberately minimised nonaccomplishment assessments to debar paying relief. It was “shocking,” helium said, that farmers were being told their crops would not beryllium procured if they registered for input subsidy. “When farmers endure owed to earthy calamities, it is the government’s basal work to guarantee procurement and support,” helium asserted.
Recalling the erstwhile YSRCP government’s record, Mr. Nagi Reddy said ₹99,734 crore had been straight credited into farmers’ accounts done assorted payment schemes, portion ₹7,802 crore had been disbursed nether the escaped harvest security strategy benefiting 54.55 lakh farmers. “Agriculture flourished similar a festival nether Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, but the assemblage has present been pushed into crisis,” helium remarked.
He further claimed that the contiguous authorities had failed to present the promised ₹20,000 nether the Annadata Sukhibhava strategy and had paid lone ₹5,000 done Rythu Bharosa. The existent crisis—marked by wide harvest losses crossed 24 districts and fodder shortages successful Rayalaseema—was the worst successful 2 decades, helium said.
Mr. Nagi Reddy demanded that the authorities halt manipulating figures and widen afloat compensation and procurement enactment to each affected farmers. “If humanity means anything, this is the clip to basal with them,” helium said.
