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
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.
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.
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.
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
Government should initiate measures to provide full support to tenant farmers, say Rythu Swarajya Vedika members; demand implementation of Licensed Cultivators Act
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
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
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. […]
