The bountiful rain at the beginning of the kharif season may have warmed the hearts of the farmers across the State but uncertainty stares at tenant farmers, known as crop cultivators or “Koulu Raithulu.”
There are an estimated 24.25 lakh tenant farmers, of whom, 6.29 lakh are landless tenants and 18.03 lakh are mixed tenants (Radhakrishna Commission, 2014).
Farming in many parts of Krishna and Godavari deltas is done by tenant farmers after taking lease of lands and as fate would have it, they are at the receiving end.
