All India Kisan Sabha national president Ravula Venkaiah demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government provide input assistance of ₹10,000 per acre to farmers and tenant farmers and ₹20,000 per acre to those cultivating crops on less than two acres to help them tide over the crisis in the agriculture sector.
He said the farmers were unable to fetch the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for their produce, which the Central and the State governments should take serious note of and take remedial action.
Addressing a demonstration organised by the A.P. Rythu Sangham at Dharna Chowk on Monday to mount pressure on the Central and State governments to take steps for solving the problems faced by the farming community, Mr. Venkaiah said the Telangana government was giving input assistance to the farmers and said the A.P. government should follow suit to enable them to cope with the prevailing distress.
