The situation was not much better before the pandemic. In 2019, the average household debt of farmers in Andhra Pradesh – Rs. 2.45 lakhs – was the highest in the country. The recently released Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India, 2019 notes that 93 per cent of agricultural households in the state were in debt that year.

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