Fifty-year-old Dasari Ramanaiah, who grew paddy in five acres of leased land at Kovur village, was getting ready to complete the harvest of the rabi crop and get a decent return. But his hopes were dashed as the untimely rain triggered by cyclonic storm Asani had snatched away his produce.
So is the case with hundreds of farmers in the mandal who have been struggling to get even the minimum support price promised by the State government, leave alone remunerative price for their produce as per the formula evolved by noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan.
