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, …
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 …
Hyderabad: BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday demanded that the state government conduct an all-party meeting to discuss the problems being faced by tenant farmers, who are deprived of benefit from any welfare scheme being extended to the agriculture sector. Sanjay said there were around 14 lakh tenant farmers who were dependent on cultivation taken on lease from …
