Welfare schemes should cover tenant farmers: Uttam
2 years, 4 months ago

Welfare schemes should cover tenant farmers: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Demanding that the welfare schemes should cover tenant farmers, Congress MP and former PCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy accused both the Telangana government and the BJP-led Union government of neglecting tenant farmers. The state Congress leader claimed that Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar responded to a question he asked in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday with a "generalised reply" and "misleading facts," claiming that this only highlighted the central government's indifference and injustice toward tenant farmers. Uttam further pointed out that the Union minister did not respond to questions regarding the exclusion of tenant farmers in the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi. Uttam stated that the Union Minister shared a chart showing figures of JLGs, but the data did not indicate how many of them were made up of tenant farmers or Bhoomiheen Kisan.

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Unable to repay loans, farmer ends life in Telangana
18 hours, 29 minutes ago

Unable to repay loans, farmer ends life in Telangana

New Indian Express  

MAHABUBABAD: Allegedly unable to bear the pressure of mounting debts, a 38-year-old farmer died by suicide in Seerole mandal on Sunday. Police said the victim, Thejavath Sreenu, a resident of Sakaram Naik Thanda, consumed pesticide at his agricultural field the evening before. Facing crop losses and struggling to repay the loans, Sreenu became increasingly distressed. Seerole Sub-inspector Ch Nagesh stated …

Over 62,000 farmers in AP excluded from PM Kisan Nidhi benefits
5 days, 23 hours ago

Over 62,000 farmers in AP excluded from PM Kisan Nidhi benefits

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada:Telugu Desam floor leader and Narasaraopet MP Lavu Srikrishna Devarayalu has informed the Lok Sabha that over 62,000 farmers in Andhra Pradesh are not receiving benefits from the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Though 41,84,000 farmers are eligible for the scheme, only 41,22,000 are currently getting the benefits, he said. During the session, the MP pressed the central government …

Telangana: Teacher Working for Farmers in Distress Wants Sops to Cover Tenants
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: Teacher Working for Farmers in Distress Wants Sops to Cover Tenants

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In the heart of Telangana, where lush fields mask a growing crisis, government school teacher Puli Raju, 52, has become an unexpected ray of hope for countless families. His mission is to ensure government schemes include tenant farmers, who are disproportionately affected by borewell failures and systemic neglect. Raju, a teacher from Etigadda Kistapur village in Toguta mandal of …

Farmers bodies seek proper enumeration of farmers suicides
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Farmers bodies seek proper enumeration of farmers suicides

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Farmers’ bodies are seeking revival of the earlier system when a three-member committee used to visit mandals and districts to determine the reasons behind farmers’ deaths by suicide. After Rythu Bima was introduced, the system of verification at the mandal level by a team comprising a tahsildar, mandal agriculture officer and a sub-inspector as mandated by GO 194 to …

Farmer attempts suicide over land dispute with ex-RTI commissioner in Khammam, Telangana
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Farmer attempts suicide over land dispute with ex-RTI commissioner in Khammam, Telangana

New Indian Express  

KHAMMAM : Alleging that former RTI commissioner Gugulothu Shankar Naik encroached his 1.50 acres of land, Pacchipala Bhadraiah, a 60-year-old farmer attempted suicide by consuming pesticide in his field at Aliatanda village in Karepalli mandal of Khammam district on Thursday. According to Bhadraiah’s nephew P Venkat, the dispute revolved around a 1.50-acre patch of the 5 acres owned by the …

Day after his death, speculation abounds over suicide of farmer in Telangana
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Day after his death, speculation abounds over suicide of farmer in Telangana

New Indian Express  

KHAMMAM : There are several doubts circulating on social media regarding the suicide of farmer Bogedla Prabhakar. Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vkramarka on Wednesday assured people that the government will not spare anyone responsible for the farmer’s suicide. Family members of the farmer on Wednesday staged a protest before Mandal Revenue Officer K Ramesh at the water tank …

Suicides by Farmers: Telangana HC Awaits Response from State
8 months, 1 week ago

Suicides by Farmers: Telangana HC Awaits Response from State

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Advocate-general A. Sudarshan Reddy on Monday sought time to get instructions from the state government on the rising incidences of suicides by farmers. Take recourse to Customs Act, HC tells petitioner and officials A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court directed the parties to seek recourse to the Customs Act for release of 932 grams of seized gold. …

BRS Accused of Downplaying Figures of Farmers' Suicides
9 months, 1 week ago

BRS Accused of Downplaying Figures of Farmers' Suicides

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Farmer organisations are castigating the BRS regime for having systematically playing down the figures with regard to farmers dying by suicide across the state, after the launch of the Rythu Bhima life insurance scheme on August 15, 2018. The BRS government had abandoned the process of enumerating farmer deaths and verification to settle family debts mandated under GO 194, …

Karnataka: 1,219 farmers dies by suicide in 18 months due to crop loss caused by drought
1 year, 2 months ago

Karnataka: 1,219 farmers dies by suicide in 18 months due to crop loss caused by drought

India TV News  

In yet another tragic incident, a farmer in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru district took his own life on Monday. Farmer had a loan of Rs 3 lakh According to the police, Naik, was residing in Lingadahalli, Kadur taluk. 1,219 farmers have committed suicide According to officials, in Karnataka, a total of 1,219 farmers have lost their lives in the past 18 months …

Telangana farmers in dire straits, KCR cheated them: Kishan
1 year, 4 months ago

Telangana farmers in dire straits, KCR cheated them: Kishan

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana farmers are in dire straits and the fact that more than 6,000 farmers committed suicide in the last nine years speaks volumes of the plight of farmers in the state,” Union minister and state BJP president G. Kishan Reddy said on Thursday. Addressing a gathering of farmers at Shamirpet to mark the launch of PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendra …

Farmer's Suicide Note Leads to Controversy
1 year, 5 months ago

Farmer's Suicide Note Leads to Controversy

Deccan Chronicle  

Anantapur: A farmer's suicide note blaming Chief Minister Y.S. The farmer, Subba Reddy, from Tudumulapalli in Khazipet mandal of Kadapa district consumed pesticide in his fields on outskirts of the village on Thursday night and died. With Subba Reddy leaving a suicide note holding CM responsible for his death, the area revenue divisional officer released a statement saying the farmer …

No Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima benefits for tenant farmers
1 year, 8 months ago

No Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima benefits for tenant farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: While Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has announced crop loss aid of Rs 10,000 per acre to tenant farmers for the first time, they will continue to lose the benefits of Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima, crop loans, and crop loan waiver schemes until the state government amends the 'Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act 2018'. The state …

Farm suicides have come down, says Shobha Karandlaje
1 year, 9 months ago

Farm suicides have come down, says Shobha Karandlaje

The Hindu  

The number of farmers suicides has come down after the BJP came to power at the Centre and in the State, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje said on Sunday. Addressing a rally of farmers and women in Raibag in Belagavi district, she said that farmers suicides reached a peak during the Congress regime. “The …

Kin of farmers who died by suicide await compensation from the govt
1 year, 9 months ago

Kin of farmers who died by suicide await compensation from the govt

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The families of hundreds of farmers who died by suicide said they had been denied ex gratia compensation under Government Order 194, despite the police certifying in the investigation reports that the suicides were due to debt. Rythu Swarajya Vedika, a farmers’ forum, conducted a survey of cases of the final reports from the police for about 100 farmers …

Tenant farmers of Telangana still excluded from state-funded schemes
1 year, 9 months ago

Tenant farmers of Telangana still excluded from state-funded schemes

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST The continued exclusion of Telangana’s tenant farmers from state-funded schemes is making tenancy more insecure in the state. The Rythu Swarajya Vedika, a farmers’ rights organisation working in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, released a survey in December 2022 on the situation of tenant farmers in Telangana. “Apart from being excluded from Rythu Bandhu, …

Palla slams Bandi\'s claim of 10,000 farmer suicides in TS
1 year, 10 months ago

Palla slams Bandi\'s claim of 10,000 farmer suicides in TS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Rythu Bandhu Samithi chairman and BRS MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy on Monday strongly refuted comments made by BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar that almost 10,000 farmers had committed suicide in the last eight years while the TRS was in power as a result of debt, a lack of MSP, and procurement issues. Speaking to media along with MLA …

Take more steps to prevent farmer suicides, Revanth to KCR
1 year, 11 months ago

Take more steps to prevent farmer suicides, Revanth to KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Alleging that 7,069 farmers had committed suicide in the state since 2014, TPCC chief A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday demanded that tenant farmers be given due recognition in all government schemes as almost 80 percent of those who ended their lives were from this category. In an open letter addressed to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, the Congress leader …

Nearly a million farmers losing out on MSP in Telangana
2 years ago

Nearly a million farmers losing out on MSP in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Almost a million farmers in Telangana, classified as tenant farmers, are being robbed of their right to sell their crops at the minimum support price. Crop procurement is tied to land ownership, and tenant farmers, who are already out of the Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima safety nets, are having to contend with this additional challenge of not being …

Farmer suicides in Telangana drop drastically
2 years ago

Farmer suicides in Telangana drop drastically

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The number of farmers and cultivators committing suicide in Telangana fell by about 59 per cent from 2017 till 2021, but the state still accounted for over 10 per cent of such incidents nationwide during that period, the Centre said on Friday. Presenting the data to Parliament, the Union agriculture and farmers welfare ministry said that from 2017 till …

RSV, HRF say farmers’ families denied mandated compensation
2 years, 4 months ago

RSV, HRF say farmers’ families denied mandated compensation

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: Rythu Swarajya Vedika and Human Rights Forum have demanded that state government extend financial aid to families of farmers who have committed suicide but have not yet received financial compensation from the state as envisaged under G.O. A three-member fact-finding team comprising RSV state committee member B. Kondal, HRF state executive committee member K. Madan Sekhar and HRF’s AP …

Steep decline in farmers’ suicide in Telangana: Tomar
2 years, 8 months ago

Steep decline in farmers’ suicide in Telangana: Tomar

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that farmers' suicides in Telangana witnessed a steep decline since 2015. Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar gave a written reply in Lok Sabha to this effect to the question raised by Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president and MP A. Revanth Reddy. Revanth Reddy sought to know the details of the number of …

Andhra Pradesh tenant farmers in dire situation: Study
2 years, 9 months ago

Andhra Pradesh tenant farmers in dire situation: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The situation of tenant farmers in Andhra Pradesh is in a dire situation with only 9.6 per cent receiving Crop Cultivating Rights Cards and only three per cent landless tenant farmers getting Rythu Bharosa scheme, said a study conducted by Rythu Swarajya Vedika, which released a report at a round table meeting in Vijayawada on Monday. The RSV activists …

Widows, Sisters & Mothers of Farmers, Who Died by Suicide Due to Debt Issues, Join Protest at Tikri Border
4 years ago

Widows, Sisters & Mothers of Farmers, Who Died by Suicide Due to Debt Issues, Join Protest at Tikri Border

News 18  

Several family members, including widows, mothers and sisters, of Punjab farmers who committed suicide due to rising debt, joined the protesters at Tikri border on Wednesday. Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and elsewhere have been protesting near various border points of Delhi, including Singhu and Tikri, for over a fortnight demanding that the Centre repeal three new farm laws. …

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