"telangana-farmers"

Farmers believe that the government should have prioritized the continuation of the Rythu Bandhu Scheme, even if it meant deferring the crop loan waiver initiative, which also has not been fully implemented yet

On Wednesday, Rama Rao expressed concerns on X, stating that farmers who were once self-reliant and confident are now struggling with despair due to inadequate support from the State government. He criticized the government for failing to provide Rythu Bharosa financial assistance to farmers for two consecutive crop seasons and offering only partial aid during the previous Yasangi season. He also pointed out that the crop loan waiver, originally announced at ₹31,000 crore, was reduced to ₹17,000 crore, benefiting only a limited number of fa

Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageshwar Rao on Wednesday wanted Agriculture officials to work in coordination with farmers' bodies to address the issue of stubble burning before it turned detrimental to life.

Senior BRS leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao will join the padayatra at Chelgal and walk along with Sanjay Kumar and others up to Jagtial

The BRS working president said farmers are left stranded without buyers for their paddy, even as unseasonal rains were damaging their produce

Harish Rao said that the government had failed to make arrangements to purchase paddy, cotton, and maize, forcing farmers to sell their produce to middlemen at a much cheaper rate than the MSP.

The Civil Supplies department promised to purchase 8.16 lakh tonnes of paddy in October itself. But as on October 28, only 7,629 tonnes of paddy has been purchased from 913 farmers," he said.

"Farmers are being deceived in every way," he said, expressing anger over the government’s failure to commence crop procurement and provide MSP as promised during elections.

Procurement of paddy has not started in many paddy purchasing centers in the erstwhile Karimnagar district.

Farmers were outraged, accusing the Congress government of betraying them by not only delaying the promised financial assistance for the previous Yasangi (Rabi) season, but also denying it for the entire Vanakalam season.

BRS leader and former minister S Niranjan Reddy demanded that the support price given to cotton in Gujarat be extended to Telangana farmers as well.

The committee includes Ministers Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu, N Uttam Kumar Reddy, D Sridhar Babu, and Tummala Nageswara Rao

The Telangana Civil Supplies Corporation is currently gearing up with the necessary infrastructure to commence full-fledged procurement from the third week of October

Thummala Nageswar Rao directed the Agriculture Secretary to write to the Centre in this regard. He wanted the cap on the procurement of farmers produce to go.

The MPs and MLAs of the BJP held a 24-hour protest to force the State government to fulfil the promises made to the farming community, especially the crop loan waiver scheme, at the Dharna Chowk, Indira Park on Monday.

Harish Rao found fault with Priyanka Gandhi for failing to stand by the assurances she gave to the RRR victims during the election campaign.

Nearly 100 farmers from the village arrived at the Collectorate carrying their bank passbook, pattadar passbook and other documents

Centres to be operated through Primary Agricultural Cooperatives (4,496), Indira Kranti Patham centres (2,102), and other agencies (541), to streamline the process for farmers during the harvest season.

The farmers, who borrowed more than Rs.2 lakh, had repaid the additional amount to banks, but many were yet to get the waiver. They also said majority of farmers in the village had not yet got the loan waiver.

The demonstrators, led by former MLA K Prabhakar Reddy, voiced their opposition to the forcible acquisition of their agricultural lands without fair compensation.