YSRTP president Y.S. Sharmila has asked Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to pay ₹30,000 per acre from TRS party fund to farmers who did not cultivate due to his announcement that paddy would not be procured in summer. She said that farmers had lost heavily due to the signing of agreement between the State and Central governments.
On Saturday, she was furious over the absence of officials at the marketing office at a time when farmers were suffering due to the delay in paddy purchase from procurement centres.
Ms. Sharmila, who is on her padayatra in Nalgonda district, paid a surprise visit to Medak district headquarters on Saturday to meet the district marketing officer. She was informed that the officer was on leave for the last 10 days. There, farmers told her about their problems.
