VIJAYAWADA
While claiming that the crop holiday purportedly declared by farmers in Konaseema was nothing but Goebbels’ campaign unleashed by the Telugu Desam Party, Agriculture Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy on Thursday said the State government had written to the Central government requesting it to implement the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission on the Minimum Support Price.
Mr. Govardhan Reddy said the State received copious rains and reservoirs were brimming with water ever since Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy took charge as Chief Minister, due to which not even a single mandal was declared as drought-hit. That being the case, where was the scope for crop holiday, he questioned.
