When farmers S. Surya Prakash and K. Kurmanna saw the concrete canals being laid down at the under-construction ethanol factory near Chittanoor village in Marikal Mandal, Narayanpet district, Telangana, their worst fears were confirmed.

These concrete canals, they believe, will divert their precious agricultural water from the fields to the factory, leaving them in such penury that they will be forced to leave their villages every year to work as ‘Palamuru’ or migrant labour elsewhere in the country.

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Despite the tall promises by the TRS government of KG to PG free education, the allocations to education have left a lot to be desired. The K. Chandrashekar Rao government inaugurated the only model showpiece of the state’s first KG to PG institution in Sircilla, the assembly constituency of K.T. Rama Rao, a state minister and son of KCR. Even the institute was developed by a corporate house under its corporate social responsibility in partnership with the state government.

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Presenting the report, Kiran Vissa of the RSV, said that the claim that tenant farmers cannot be identified as the land they till is ever-changing does not hold because the survey found that 72% of tenant farmers tend the same land for more than three years. Only a minority rent the land for one or two years.

 

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Almost one year has passed since the Andhra Pradesh government promised to build houses for the victims of the floods caused by a breach of the Annamayya project’s earthen bund over Cheyyeru river on November 19, 2021. However, till date, all that G. Siva Reddy, one of the victims of the floods, has to call a home is a makeshift tarpaulin tent erected where his home once stood.

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G. Neelamma, the widow of tenant farmer G. Narasimhulu from Yerraballe village, Duvvuru mandal of YSR Kadapa district, has been denied compensation despite a positive recommendation by the MRO committee. “I had to deposit the Rs 1 lakh I got with a village elder as all of my creditors wanted the money. They are pressuring me to sell the plot of land on which I have a house and repay the money. I hope I get the remaining Rs 6 lakhs to repay the Rs 7.5 lakhs debt left by my husband,” she said.

 

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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.