VIJAYAWADA: YSR Congress rank and file staged rallies and protests throughout Andhra Pradesh on Friday in support of farmers demanding a fair price for paddy. Incidentally, the opposition party’s protest coincided with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s launch of the Swarna Andhra Vision @2047 document in Vijayawada. In Vizianagaram, district president Majji Srinivasa Rao, along with leaders Botsa Appalanarsayya and …
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, …
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Telangana Rashtra Samiti, which opposed the farm bills in Parliament and participated in the farmer’s protests, is making a strategy to implement the bill. A high-level review session was held at Pragati Bhavan where various issues including procurement of various crops, controlled cultivation system, farmer bonding, sale of agricultural produce in the market, purchases, responsibilities …
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