The State government has pushed the common farmer into a state of distress with its flawed policies and with paltry allocations that are nowhere a match to that made during the previous regime, said Telugu Desam Party (TDP) politburo member and former Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy.
Addressing the district-level convention of the party’s farmer wing ‘Telugu Rythu’ at Srikalahasti on Wednesday, he said the YSRCP government had allocated ₹20,000 crore for the year 2020-21, but spent a mere ₹7,000 crore.
“It is a blatant lie that the government has spent ₹1.28 lakh for the farm sector in three years,” he fumed. He said it was unfortunate that the State was claiming the amount paid to farmers towards procurement of grains as investment into the farm sector.
