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‘What happened to the promise of ₹10,000 per acre to farmers?’

YSRTP president Y.S. Sharmila said that farmers in almost all the districts in Telangana lost crops due to heavy rains that took place recently and government must come forward to the rescue of farmers. She said that farmers had almost collapsed financially due to the rains time and again in the past few days. She demanded a compensation of ₹ 30,000 per acre to farmers

The YSRTP president also sent a truck-load of damaged crop to the Chief Minister explaining the severity of the crop loss to the farmers.

Ms. Sharmila recently visited several districts including Khammam and Warangal where there was huge crop loss.

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