Groundnut farmers demand compensation for crop loss
The Hindu
Instead of 15 bags of yield per acre, we got only 5 bags this time, they say
Farmers in Bukkarayasamudram questioned the State government’s lack of initiative to provide compensation to them for the groundnut crop they had lost in the kharif last year and also not providing remunerative price for their produce. A groundnut farmer, Nagamuni, from Siddharampuram in Bukkarayasamudram mandal on Tuesday asked Ambati Krishna Reddy, Agriculture Advisor to State Government, for compensation for the loss of groundnut crop to farmers in their mandal.More Related News
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