Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday demanded that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government take measures on war footing to provide required cash and other facilities to farmers for Kharif 2017.
Uttam told a gathering of farmers that the farming activities in the ongoing Kharif season were badly hit due to severe cash and credit crunch in rural areas.
Quoting the latest report of Agriculture Department released on July 5, he said in this kharif season, sowing of seeds has only reached 18.81 lakh hectares out of 43.24 lakh hectares so far.
Describing the situation as alarming, he said that the farmers were unable to reap the benefits of a good monsoon due to the negligence of TRS Government.
The TPCC said the farmers were not getting timely help from any quarter. He said neither Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao nor Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy understood the gravity of the situation.
He said ideally the Chief Minister should have convened a special meeting with bankers to bail out the farmers.
Further, he said that the Chief Minister himself should have spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to resolve the problem of cash crunch.
The TPCC Chief also slammed the TRS Government for its anti-farmer policies. He reiterated that the Congress party, if voted to power in 2019, would waive off crop loans up to Rs. 2 lakh in a single take.
He said that Market Intervention Fund would be introduced to provide remunerative prices to farmers for their produce.
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