Vijayawada: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy extended the input subsidy to farmers affected by the rain and ensured that no farmer will have to cry out for government support. He also promised to release insurance claims worth 12,027 million rupees on December 15.
Explaining the relief that is being given to farmers affected by cyclonic storm Nivar in the Assembly here on Monday, the CM said that it was the first time that aid and input subsidy were provided to affected farmers in the same season, Unlike the previous practice of doing it after a long time. He also announced the purchase of discolored and germinated rice from farmers by paying them appropriately.
The Chief Minister said that Cyclone Nivar not only damaged several crops but also infrastructure in the state, adding that clear instructions were given to list the extent of the loss, especially in crops, before December 15, so that could provide relief to affected farmers. by December 31st. He promised seeds with an 80 percent subsidy to affected farmers to help them grow crops again.
He took shots at the former Telugu Desam regime led by N. Chandrababu Naidu for delaying aid payments, input subsidies and settlement of insurance claims from affected farmers for a year and a half and said his government cleared arrears worth millions rupees. pending even since 2014 as they were committed to the welfare of farmers.
He said that beyond the promises of the survey, his government promised to extend financial assistance to farmers in the amount of ‘13,500 per year for five years as opposed to the previous plan of giving only ‘12,500 for four years under the Scheme Rytu Bharosa added that in the Solo in the last 18 months, they spent `13 billion rupees under the plan.
The CM stated that they had started drilling wells and repairing electric motors for farmers with the goal of completing 50,000 per year at an estimated total cost of 4 billion rupees. It blamed the TD regime for failing to settle farmers’ energy arrears of Rs 8,655 million, rice purchase arrears of Rs 960 million, seed subsidy arrears of Rs 384 million and Agricultural loan arrears since 2014 worth Rs 1,030 crore and said all of those were approved by the YSR congressional government.
He promised to guarantee the supply of quality power for nine hours during the day for the farmers as they had upgraded the capacity of the power feeders at a cost of Rs 1.7 billion. The CM said that its government had paid Rs 510 crore as bankers granted farmers interest-free agricultural loans to grow kharif in 2019, adding that the Rs 1,030 crore insurance premium was paid on behalf of farmers for the 2019 kharif crop, as each beneficiary farmer paid only ‘1.
Explaining about a series of efforts that his government is making to benefit farmers in the dairy and aquatic sectors, the CM said that his government always wanted to provide benefits to farmers, as opposed to the practice of the previous TD regime to exploit them. .
The CM criticized Supreme TD Chandrababu Naidu for shedding crocodile tears by not providing any help to the farmers and described his act of squatting in the house well as unprecedented. In a clever way, the CM described CBN as ‘Coronavirus Bhayapade Naidu’ and flayed him for staging a drama only to get the attention of a section of the media to highlight it as if he was fighting for the interest of farmers as a publicity stunt. . .
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