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The Telangana Rythu Sangham has said that no farmer should be excluded from from the proposed financial assistance scheme announced by the State government.
The association alleged that the government is trying to exclude tenant farmers and those practising ‘shifting cultivation’ from the purview of the scheme, which will be implemented from next kharif.
The State has decided to give ₹4,000 each for kharif and rabi seasons for every acre a farmer owns to take care of input costs. It, however, excluded tenant farmers from the scheme.
“About one-third of the 56 lakh land holdings will not be covered by the new scheme. There are about 14 lakh tenant farmers in the State who will be left out. They need financial assistance too as cost of production for them is higher than others,” Telangana Rythu Sangham Secretary T Sagar told BusinessLine on Friday.
“The scheme is also not covering about one lakh farmers practising shifting cultivation. Besides, about 20,000 farmers are cultivating 50,000 acres are also not included,” he said.
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