https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/andhra-farmers-turn-masons-milkmen-despite-state-getting-decent-rain-here-is-why-84041

R Mallikarjuna Reddy from Gopulapuram revenue village in the Duvvuru mandal (headed by a tehsildar) of YSR Kadapa district, has left farming, having lost hope.

“I sold 1.21 hectares of my land to pay debts over the last three years and have Rs five lakhs in debt still. I am not willing to take up paddy cultivation again even on a tenancy basis and have become a mason now in the near-by Proddatur town,” he told this reporter.

Tenancy in AP is the highest in the country and is pegged at 42.4 per cent according to the 77th Round Survey of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), 2019. Sustaining viability of farming for tenant farmers against this backdrop attains added significance in the state.

 

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They also highlighted the issue of crop insurance schemes. Telangana exited the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana from the kharif season of 2020. However, it had failed to establish its own schemes unlike other states such as Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Its farmers thus had not received any compensation despite heavy losses.

Tamarind trees are grown mostly as avenue or border plantation in the fields and their population has dwindled over the years. But the tree, along with some other species, has lost their role in agriculture since the use of chemical fertilisers became widespread, farmer added. “This is another reason they are thoughtlessly cut down.”

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