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TJAC chief pitches for new farm policy
Prof Kodandaram observed a one-day Rythu Deeksha at Indira Park here on Sunday alleging that the TRS government left the problems of the farmers to the wind. Speaking on the occasion, Kodandaram stated that 60 per cent of the people were dependent on agriculture and the agriculture sector was the main pillar
Hyderabad: Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Sunday demanded the State government to come up with comprehensive agriculture policy’ on the lines of IT and Industrial policy in Telangana and setting up of agriculture commission for the welfare of farmers and to prevent them from resorting to suicides despite achievement of the new State.
Prof Kodandaram observed a one-day Rythu Deeksha at Indira Park here on Sunday alleging that the TRS government left the problems of the farmers to the wind. Speaking on the occasion, Kodandaram stated that 60 per cent of the people were dependent on agriculture and the agriculture sector was the main pillar of State economy. “The businesses will run only when agriculture sector was good,” he said.
Demanding that the State government bring out a Comprehensive Agriculture Policy, Seed Act and Farmers’ Income Security Act, Kodandaram asked the State government to provide social security to the farmers. He also demanded that the government refrain from acquiring lands indiscriminately and made it clear that the government had to give land to the farmers when land was acquired from the farmers. Prof Kodandaram asked the government to waive off the loans of the farmers and control the flow of the spurious seeds in the market.
He said that the government made every farmer in the State to bear the burden of debt of Rs 93,000 with its policies though the farmers didn’t receive any benefit from it.Finding fault with the TRS government for stating that it was implementing several schemes for the welfare of the farmers, Justice Chandra Kumar, who visited the Deeksha camp, alleged that in practice nothing had happened.
Several Rythu Union leaders Prof Haragopal and Prof Rama Melkote, former MLCs Chukka Ramaiah and Prof Nageshwar, senior journalists Potturi Venkateswara Rao, Dr K Ramachandra Murhty, K Srinivas Reddy, former MLAs Gummadi Narsaiah, Janardhan Reddy and several other leaders visited the Deeksha camp and extended their solidarity to Kodandaram’s Rythu Deeksha.
