Rajahmundry: TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu regretted that his party could not convince the farming community on the reforms that were brought in the agriculture sector for their welfare. He said that though the Congress Government was adopting some of their policies, yet 50 per cent of farmers in the State had been thrown into a debt trap as they failed to access credit since the last two years.

Mr. Naidu who summarised the resolution on agriculture and farmers' welfare introduced by former Minister Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao, said that improvement in the standard of living of farmers would be his party's policy and they would strive for this through different methods till their goal was achieved. "We introduced many reforms for the welfare of farmers. However, we could not succeed in our efforts to convince farmers to some extent. Now, the farmers are realising about our reforms and welfare measures taken by TDP Government," the TDP president said.

`Suicides continuing'

He said though the Congress Government was also adopting some of their reforms, but had failed to stop farmers' suicides. He recalled that they had introduced new technologies in the agriculture sector like establishing price monitoring cells, setting up processing units for vegetable farmers and procuring onion and tomato from farmers and preserving them in warehouses for better Minimum Support Price.

The TDP president lashed out at the Rajasekhara Reddy Government for failing to supply power to the farm sector for nine hours due to which the agricultural production had come down from last two years.

Senior party leader K. Vidyadhara Rao charged the Government with coming up with tall claims without doing anything for farmers' welfare.

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