"rythu-bharosa"

The Agriculture department, which developed a mobile app to help complete the loan waiver process, will train AEOs on how to use and collect the data from Tuesday.

Says while the government has been claiming that there are no deaths in State, at least five were reported on Saturday and three on Monday

Farmers staged dharna blocking roads and raised slogans against the State government for not extending the waiver to them. They said that they were forced to roam around banks to get the scheme. Due to the protest, traffic came to a standstill for a while.

A decision was taken to stage ‘rasta roko’ protest on national highways on Saturday. This apart, they demanded that the State government should waive their crop loans without imposing any terms and conditions.

Around 500 farmers from several villages gathered and took out a massive funeral procession with an effigy of the Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at Talamadugu mandal centre.

The ruing party had not yet implemented its electoral promise of providing Rs 15,000 per acre financial assistance every year to the farmers under Indiramma Rythu Bharosa.

The announcement came as a surprise, as the Chief Minister's prepared Independence Day speech made no mention of extending the facility to 'farm laborers.' Earlier, Revanth Reddy had unfurled the tricolor and reviewed the Independence Day parade at the Golconda Fort on Thursday.

Highlights severe challenges faced by farmers, warns that decrease in cultivated area dangerous sign for survival of ryots

With less than 50 days remaining in the season, the cultivation of major crops like paddy, cotton, and pulses is in jeopardy.

Addressing a programme at his camp office on Saturday, Harish Rao said the Congress government had denied many schemes that they had promised during the election campaign.

The latest BRS initiative to be selected for the name changing game is the Palle Pragathi programme, which has been renamed as 'Swacchadanam – Pacchadanam'.

The government also assured the implementation of a crop loan waiver for farmers with loans up to Rs 2 lakh without any conditions.

Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao on Wednesday hinted that the framework for the scheme would be finalised only after the implementation of the farm loan waiver scheme by the end of August.

Slamming the State government for curtailing the budget session, Harish Rao said the Congress government was not only evading promises made to the people but was also evading facing questions in the Assembly.

Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka is scheduled to present the full-scale budget on July 25, with a reported outlay of more than Rs.2.9 lakh crore.

Reacting to a farmer’s appeal for providing insurance facility to crops, the Minister made these comments while participating in Rythu Bharosa consultation meeting held in a private function hall here on Friday.

Despite Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao’s repeated appeal to farmers for advice on how to extend Rythu Bharosa to tenant farmers, a majority of the farmers skipped the subject.

Mobilizing agriculture investment support from private sources is an uphill task. Loan waiver should have been scheduled after Rythu Bharosa.

Speaking at Telangana Bhavan on Friday, Rajeshwar Reddy criticised the Congress government for its insufficient support to farmers.

In a press statement on Thursday, Prabhakar said the conditions mentioned by the government in the GO would deprive many farmers of the benefit.