“The viability of pro-market economic reforms rests on keeping the farm produce prices low. I am personally in agreement with a crop holiday by farmers across the country. Until they produce enough, governments will never admit there is an agrarian crisis. The absence of a lobby for farmers has allowed the government to look the other way with impunity,” Devinder Sharma said.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/crop-holiday-what-made-these-andhra-paddy-farmers-consider-it-83357

 

Lawyers have questioned the rationale of setting up a special court recently in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh (AP), to try those found guilty of smuggling red sanders wood, endemic to the Seachalam Hills.

They said having a special court would only lead to delay in adjudicating such cases of smuggling and that the new court will be pro-state.

There are 2,348 cases booked against red sanders smugglers in AP. The special court constituted in Tirupati, with its jurisdiction spread across the state, will try these cases which in itself is a problem, the lawyers said.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/forests/red-sanders-in-ap-lawyers-question-rationale-for-special-court-to-try-smuggling-cases-83303

Rayalaseema is a region in Andhra Pradesh that comprises of eight districts that includes Chittoor and Tirupati. Weather experts at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) located in Gadanki, Chittoor district of the Rayalaseema region state that the changes in precipitation patterns have been visible since 2012, owing to a slow change in the IICZ (Inter Tropical Convergent Zone), a result of climate change. They say that the changes caused by anthropogenic activities cannot be denied any more.

https://india.mongabay.com/2022/05/unprecedented-rainfall-and-pesticide-usage-lead-to-low-mango-yields-in-andhra-pradesh-districts/

 

 

 

The problems are multi-dimensional lack of readily available inputs prepared from dung of animals, leaves of trees like neem among others places a limit on the farmers who intend to take it up in a larger area of their land.

https://www.news9live.com/state/andhra-pradesh/impact-of-organic-farming-in-kurnool-farmers-bemoan-shortfalls-in-execution-lack-of-marketing-avenues-168461

https://www.news9live.com/state/andhra-pradesh/impact-of-organic-farming-in-kurnool-farmers-bemoan-shortfalls-in-execution-lack-of-marketing-avenues-168461

The problems are multi-dimensional lack of readily available inputs prepared from dung of animals, leaves of trees like neem among others places a limit on the farmers who intend to take it up in a larger area of their land.

https://www.news9live.com/state/andhra-pradesh/impact-of-organic-farming-in-kurnool-farmers-bemoan-shortfalls-in-execution-lack-of-marketing-avenues-168461

 

 

Lime prices may be burning holes in middle-class pockets, but has that translated into super profits for farmers? Cultivators in Andhra Pradesh, the largest supplier of the citrus, are not exactly a happy lot.

Their experience is another case study of how extreme weather can add to farm worries.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/excess-rainfall-in-nov-dec-early-heat-why-lime-production-was-hit-in-andhra-india-s-largest-producer-82399

The education budget allocation has fallen since the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014 (Table 1). This does not augur well for Andhra Pradesh, which has a literacy rate of 66.4% – lower than Bihar’s 70.9%, as per the National Sample Survey 2017-18. As per the 2021-22 socio-economic survey, the state’s literacy rate (67.35%) is also lower than the national average (72.98%). Moreover, the 2011 census pegged the state at the 31st position in literacy. 

https://thewire.in/education/andhra-pradesh-marginal-rise-education-budget

“By allocating less than 11% of the budget towards education from 2015-16 onwards, the government has diverted Rs 30,000 crore over the years to other areas. By allocating merely one-fourth of that amount, the government is patting itself on the back,” rues K. Venugopal, chief editor of the magazine of Telangana Progressive Teachers Federation (TPTF).

 https://thewire.in/education/telangana-education-gets-a-raw-deal-yet-again-in-the-state-budget