The farmers, in their letters have also demanded the government to announce Rs.25,000 as compensation for each acre of crop that suffered damages due to unseasonal rains or went dry due to water shortage.
Published Date – 15 April 2024, 04:07 PM
Postcard Campaign
Siddipet: Farmers in Siddipet have launched a postcard campaign demanding that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy implement the schemes that the Congress had promised during the Assembly election campaign. On Monday, several farmers came together to write on postcards and send to the Chief Minister’s Jubilee Hills residence.
Writing a letter at the Cotton marketyard in Siddipet, paddy farmer K Srinivas Reddy, a resident of Lingareddipally, urged the government to extend the bonus of Rs.500 per quintal of paddy apart from giving the financial assistance of Rs.15,000 under Rythu Bharosa, waiver of loans up to Rs.2 lakh and Rythu Bima.
The farmers, in their letters have also demanded the government to announce Rs.25,000 as compensation for each acre of crop that suffered damages due to unseasonal rains or went dry due to water shortage. They also demanded that the government implement all the schemes at one go for the benefit of the farming community.
Farmers from Raghapur, Chinnakodur and other places also wrote similar letters to the Chief Minister.
