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Farmers forced to store cotton 'gunpowder' at home

Adilabad:Many tenant farmers in the state are storing their harvested cotton in their homes due to delays in obtaining certification from Agriculture Extension Officers, despite the significant fire and health risks this poses. Uppari Ramanna, a tenant farmer from Ankoli who leased five acres to grow cotton, has stored his produce in his small house while awaiting AEO certification to …

Farmers Cotton

3 months ago

Telangana Agriculture Minister’s comments pushes farmers into confusion: KTR

The Hindu

HYDERABAD Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi K.T. He said this pointing at the State Agriculture Minister Tummala Nagerswara Rao’s comments reportedly made in Delhi on Thursday that Rythu Bharosa would not be extended to the tenant farmers. Mr. Rama Rao issued a statement on Friday saying that the Congress Government led by A. Revanth Reddy made tall promises …

Farmers Congress Telangana Rythu Bharosa Rama Rao Confusion Ktr

4 months, 1 week ago

New Law Enables Andhra Pradesh Farmers to Access Lands, Lay Roads

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: Section 251 of the AP Tenant Farmers’ Act prohibits farmers from denying other farmers access to their lands for carrying out agricultural activities. Farmers will have to allow neighbouring farmers to construct new roads for reaching their fields so that they can transport agricultural equipment and carry out their farm work without any impediments. Further, Section 251 enables affected …

Land Act Section 251 Farmers Access Tenant Farmers

4 months, 1 week ago

Telangana Farmer Unions Demand Tenant Rights in ROR Draft Bill Revision

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Farmer unions, while welcoming several provisions of the Record of Rights draft Bill, pointed out to the lack of recognition of tenant farmers' rights. The unions opine that this section is needed to identify tenant farmers in order to help them avail institutional loans, provide crop insurance, procure seeds and other inputs on subsidy. According to the farmer unions …

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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 …

Telangana Farmer Tenant Farmers Farmer Suicides

4 months, 3 weeks ago

BJP Finds Loopholes in Loan Waiver Sop

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: BJP legislature leader A. Maheshwar Reddy criticised the loan waiver scheme, questioning why only 44 lakh farmers are benefiting from a promised Rs 31,000 crore, with actual allocation at Rs 26,000 crore. He also alleged that funds intended for the Rythu Bandhu scheme might have been diverted to loan waivers and highlighted issues with payments to tenant farmers and …

Farmers Bjp Loan Waiver

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: Farmers associations urge resolution of land and Dharani issues

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The majority of applications received during the ‘Praja Palana’ initiative pertained to land issues and errors on the Dharani website. The prominence of land-related issues is evident, as out of the 1.30 crore applications received under ‘Praja Palana’ 70 lakh were related to land and errors on the Dharani website. The CM, revenue minister, advocate general, and officials have …

Farmers Congress Land Brs Dharani Tenant Farmers Section 26

5 months, 1 week ago

Bhatti says Dharani Portal changed the land rights scenario in villages

Deccan Chronicle

Adilabad: Deputy Chief Minister and chairman of the cabinet sub-committee on Rythu Bharosa, Bhatti Vikramarka, said on Thursday that the state government would frame the modalities of its implementation with an open mind. He made it clear that the sub-committee on behalf of the state government was collecting opinions from farmers and “we will judiciously re-distribute the money collected from …

Farmers Land Rythu Bharosa Lands Dharani Rythu Bhatti Vikramarka

5 months, 2 weeks ago

How gangs are turning middle-class landlords' houses into cannabis farms. They use fake IDs to con agencies, then rip down walls and dump tons of soil in every room. And victims say that's not even th

Daily Mail

It wasn’t until he found 10 tons of soil on a bedroom floor that Charles Reeves, 57, realised that the tenants in his £3million London home had turned it into a cannabis farm. Charles Reeves, 57, found 10 tons of soil on a bedroom floor in his £3million London home His neighbours told him that they had seen men acting …

Family London Property Cannabis Tenant Men Tenants

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 …

Farmers Rythu Bima Tenant Farmers

7 months ago

KCR’s protest calls find no takers in BRS

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is being accused of hypocrisy for ignoring farmer issues for a decade and now using the same issues and demanding immediate resolution by the Revanth Reddy government. They cultivate around 20 per cent of agricultural land but the Rao regime denied tenant farmers Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima, crop loan waiver, …

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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, …

Compensation Farmers Brs Suicides Tenant Farmers Rythu Bhima

1 year, 3 months ago

Jagan to release Rs 109.74 crore under YSR Rythu Bharosa to 1,46,324 tenant farmers

Deccan Chronicle

VIJAYAWADA: The state government will release Rs 109.74 crore in aid to tenant farmers under the YSR Rythu Bharosa scheme on August 31, official sources said. They said that similarly, tenant farmers of SCs, STs, backward casts and minority communities cultivating endowment and forest lands also get Rs 13,500 in three instalments. He explained that for the fifth year in …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Kagodu Thimmappa chosen for Devaraj Urs award

The Hindu

The former Minister and socialist leader Kagodu Thimmappa has been chosen for the Devaraj Urs award, which will be presented in Bengaluru on Sunday on the occasion of the former Chief Minister’s birth anniversary. Mr. Thimmappa, 90, told press persons on Thursday that the award brought him a sense of satisfaction as he was in the last leg of his …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Farmers who go green in Natural England scheme face inheritance tax

The Telegraph

The scheme is one of several being rolled out as part of the Government’s overhaul of its £2.4 billion agricultural subsidy regime to help meet its goals to reverse nature loss by 2030 and cut carbon emissions. Tax threat holding farmers back The tax threat is stopping Mr Ruggles-Brise from converting land to scrub or wetland, which Natural England said …

Climate Change England Climate Tax Tenant Farmers Eciu

1 year, 4 months ago

Erratic rain pattern makes farming an unsustainable future in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu

It’s another dry day in Paluvai village in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh. Cotton is usually sown in the first week of June, says Durga Prasad, a functionary of Rythu Swarajya Vedika, a farmers’ rights organisation. “I had to remove all the cotton plants as they developed a red tint due to lack of rain,” says Veeraswamy, his voice dull, …

Climate Change Water Farmers Rain Rainfall State Cotton

1 year, 7 months ago

Medha Patkar plans meet with CM Jagan to discuss tenant farmer issues

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: The Rythu Swarajya Vedika held the first ever public hearing on problems of AP’s tenant farmers in front of a People’s Jury of eminent citizens including activist Medha Patkar here on Wednesday. This is unacceptable.” “Along with Rythu Swarajya Vedika and other farmers’ organisations, I would like to discuss the issues of tenant farmers with the chief minister. After …

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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 …

Farmers Tenant Land Owners Act This Act Crop Loss

1 year, 8 months ago

BJP demands white papers on crop damage compensations

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government’s sudden realisation of the existence of tenant farmers and the promise of crop damage compensation to them is a mere political stunt, the BJP said on Friday. BJP Dubbak MLA M. Raghunandan Rao speaking with reporters that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, who repeatedly disowned tenant farmers, including in speeches in the Assembly, has suddenly started …

Telangana Rao Raghunandan Rao White Papers Bjp Demands Tenant Farmers Sdr

1 year, 8 months ago

Congress party leaders' padayatras highlight tenant farmers' problems

Deccan Chronicle

Adilabad: The ongoing padayatras of state Congress president A. Revanth Reddy and CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka highlighted the tenant farmers' problems in Telangana and explained how they are being denied the various benefits that are given to farmers. The Congress leaders also promised the tenant farmers they would be provided with crop loans on par with the loans given to …

Farmers Congress Tenant Leaders Telangana Crop Bhatti

1 year, 8 months ago

CM raises tenant farmers hopes on Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's announcement on Thursday extending financial assistance to tenant farmers for the first time marks the BRS government's complete shift from its earlier stand that it would not recognize tenant farmers and would only provide government benefits to those who own land. In accordance with the BRS government's stand on tenant farmers, Rythu Bandhu and …

Tenant Land Rythu Rythu Bima Tenant Farmers Rythu Bandhu Bandhu

1 year, 9 months ago

Congress will resurvey lands across Telangana: Jairam Ramesh

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Former Union minister and AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh asserted on Friday that if the Congress was elected to power, the party would hold Dharani Adalats in all 119 Assembly constituencies and all land would be re-surveyed, while claiming that 20 of the 60 lakh landowner accounts on the Dharani portal had several errors and discrepancies. Telangana has 125 …

Congress Land Telangana Ramesh Brs Dharani

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, …

Tenancy Farmers Tenant Land Telangana State Cent

2 years ago

Jagan not to go for early elections, will complete five-year term: Sajjala

Deccan Chronicle

VIJAYAWADA: Adviser to government on public affairs, Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, has said Chief Minister Y.S. He said the Chief Minister would complete the term of five years, fulfilling all his promises and then go to poll seeking a fresh mandate on the basis of his development and welfare initiatives. Reddy however said the Jagan-led government has already implemented all the …

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Farmers forced to store cotton 'gunpowder' at home

Telangana Agriculture Minister’s comments pushes farmers into confusion: KTR

New Law Enables Andhra Pradesh Farmers to Access Lands, Lay Roads

Telangana Farmer Unions Demand Tenant Rights in ROR Draft Bill Revision

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

BJP Finds Loopholes in Loan Waiver Sop

Telangana: Farmers associations urge resolution of land and Dharani issues

Bhatti says Dharani Portal changed the land rights scenario in villages

How gangs are turning middle-class landlords' houses into cannabis farms. They use fake IDs to con agencies, then rip down walls and dump tons of soil in every room. And victims say that's not even th

Farmers bodies seek proper enumeration of farmers suicides

KCR’s protest calls find no takers in BRS

BRS Accused of Downplaying Figures of Farmers' Suicides

Jagan to release Rs 109.74 crore under YSR Rythu Bharosa to 1,46,324 tenant farmers

Kagodu Thimmappa chosen for Devaraj Urs award

Farmers who go green in Natural England scheme face inheritance tax

Erratic rain pattern makes farming an unsustainable future in Andhra Pradesh

Medha Patkar plans meet with CM Jagan to discuss tenant farmer issues

No Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima benefits for tenant farmers

BJP demands white papers on crop damage compensations

Congress party leaders' padayatras highlight tenant farmers' problems

CM raises tenant farmers hopes on Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima

Congress will resurvey lands across Telangana: Jairam Ramesh

Tenant farmers of Telangana still excluded from state-funded schemes

Jagan not to go for early elections, will complete five-year term: Sajjala