The State government has assured that it is committed to stand by the farmers right from the sowing stage to marketing their produce.
Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao lamented that the negligent attitude of the previous government which confined itself to procuring a couple of crops for minimum support price, neglecting the others, had resulted in farmers in over 75 per cent arable area depending on these crops. The government had therefore decided to take steps to ensure that farmers secured remunerative prices for all varieties of crops.
The Minister directed the Agriculture officials to take steps to see that farmers cultivating mirchi which was flooding the markets now were not put to any inconvenience. Marketing department officials were directed to ensure that farmers did not face hardships in either sale of their produce and there were no complaints about the price at which mirchi was being sold.
