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Farmers in Telangana are facing fresh crop losses this Vanakalam season while awaiting around Rs 275 crore in input subsidies promised for damage caused by heavy rain last year. The delay has heightened concerns over financial distress and compensation.
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Farmers in Adilabad’s border villages have urged the Telangana government to announce festival relief similar to Maharashtra’s Rs 5,000 assistance for farmers in drought-hit areas. The demand comes amid deficient rainfall, crop losses, mounting debts and growing agrarian distress.
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Telangana Koulu Rythula Gurtimpu Sadhana Committee has demanded identity cards for every tenant farmer in the State. The committee said the cards would help farmers access crop loans, fertilisers and other benefits and sought action under the 2011 Act
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Farmers’ organisations have alleged that tenant farmers in Telangana continue to face exclusion from subsidies, institutional credit, disaster relief and MSP procurement. A survey covering 1,816 tenant farmers highlighted growing distress, while officials assured discussions on welfare measures and policy reforms.
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Farmer suicides in Telangana increased in 2025, with 285 deaths reported, highlighting ongoing agrarian distress. Data points to crop failure, rising lease costs and lack of support as key reasons, with tenant farmers being the most affected
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Rythu Swarajya Vedika raised concerns over poor implementation of the National Family Benefit Scheme in Sangareddy, stating that only 15 applications were cleared while many remain pending, discouraging eligible families from applying despite availability of funds.
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Farmer suicides in Telangana rose to 283 in 2025, up from 256 the previous year, according to Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV). The organisation, which tracks suicides through news reports and volunteer inputs, attributed the increase to heavy and untimely rains, repeated crop losses, and lack of compensation.
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Despite adequate central allocation, NFBS benefits remain largely unutilised in Sangareddy, Medak and Siddipet due to low awareness and poor outreach. While Yadadri-Bhongir crossed 1,700 beneficiaries, the three districts together supported fewer than 100 families, prompting calls for urgent corrective measures.
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The urea shortage in Telangana has hit tenant farmers hard as they lack passbooks to claim quotas. Forced to rely on officials or private vendors, many face reduced supply, inflated black market prices and are left struggling to sustain cultivation
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Several districts impacted, with Siddipet alone seeing nearly 20,000 acres of crop damage following heavy rain on May 4-5
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Government should initiate measures to provide full support to tenant farmers, say Rythu Swarajya Vedika members; demand implementation of Licensed Cultivators Act
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Rythu Swarajya Vedika district president Sangepu Borranna regretted that farmers of the district were distressed by the inordinate delay in extending the crop investment support under the scheme since the last Vanakalam season
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Ground reality is a grim reminder of pre-2015 era; the loss of a protective cover, meticulously planned and extended by the first Chief Minister of the State, K Chandrashekhar Rao, had previously revived the dwindling fortunes of the peasant community
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Voluntary organisations Surge Impact Foundation and Rythu Swarajya Vedika donated seven oxygen concentrators to district headquarters hospitals and primary health centres of Sirpur (U) and Tiryani mandals for the convenience of Covid-19 patients. In-charge Superintendent of Police YVS Sudheendra handed over the devices to the authorities of the hospital here on Thursday. […]
