Chickpea Farmers to be Helped : YS Jagan

• Farmers awaiting insurance money
• Thousands of farmers deceived with lame reasons
• YS Jagan mentions the problems faced by chickpea farmers

Hyderabad: Leader of opposition and YSRCP president YS Jagan appealed to the Government to come to the aid of the troubled chickpea farmers. He informed that the farmers in YSR district were facing problems, not receiving insurance amount. YS Jagan mentioned this issue during the question hour of assembly session.

He revealed how the farmers had lost their Rabi season crop in 2012. The relevant insurance amount was to reach the farmers in 2013 but the 56,000 farmers were still waiting to receive it, stated YS Jagan. He added that some of the amount was released to 29,000 farmers recently upon repeated pressure applied on the Agricultural Insurance Corporation. He complained that the application documents of the rest of the farmers were being told to have faults and suggested that such a case should rather have been mentioned in the beginning instead of pushing the farmers into distress now.

YS Jagan revealed that even the 29,000 farmers received Rs.95 crore of insurance instead of the actual amount Rs.132 crore. He questioned how the amount would be enough for them. He suggested the Government to take action pertaining to this issue.