YSRCP chief Jagan accuses CM Naidu of abandoning farmers, calls agrarian disaster man-made

YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of abandoning the farming group and creating a “man-made calamity” in Andhra Pradesh’s agriculture sector.

Addressing a video convention with regional coordinators and district presidents from the get together’s central workplace at Tadepalli close to right here on Thursday,  Mr. Jagan reviewed the cyclone-hit districts within the aftermath of Cyclone Montha and assessed the situation of farmers affected by crop losses.

Mr. Jagan recalled that through the earlier YSRCP regime, the federal government had applied a free crop insurance coverage scheme protecting 85 lakh farmers and 70 lakh acres, with the State paying all the premium. Over ₹7,802 crore was disbursed as compensation to 54.55 lakh farmers in 5 years, he mentioned.

In distinction, he alleged that beneath the current coalition authorities, insurance coverage protection shrunk drastically to 19 lakh farmers and 19 lakh acres, restricted solely to those that took financial institution loans. “For two years, not even a single season’s premium has been paid by this authorities. The remainder of the farmers have been left uncovered — the place is crop safety now? This is clearly a man-made calamity,” he mentioned.

Mr. Jagan charged that the TDP-led authorities failed to supply even fundamental enter subsidies, regardless of pending funds of ₹600 crore to five.5 lakh farmers.  Key initiatives equivalent to e-Crop registration and Rythu Bharosa Kendras have been dismantled, and farmers have been disadvantaged of truthful costs and procurement help.

He listed unfulfilled guarantees, together with chilli procurement at ₹11,781 per quintal, mango at ₹12 per kg, onion at ₹1,200 per quintal, and the promised ₹50,000 per hectare compensation for crop loss. “Under Annadata Sukhibhava, farmers have been speculated to obtain ₹40,000 however acquired solely ₹5,000,  a transparent act of dishonest by Mr. Naidu,” he mentioned, including that the federal government’s publicity throughout Cyclone Montha was “louder than its aid on the bottom.”

Commending YSRCP cadres for serving to affected households through the cyclone, Mr. Jagan urged them to watch the crop loss enumeration course of carefully to make sure equity and forestall manipulation. “No farmer must be denied compensation. If officers commit errors, our leaders should query and proper them,” he mentioned.