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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Lack of integrated farm policy decried

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Speakers at the inaugural of a two-day National Farmers’ Conference here on Wednesday regretted the lack of an integrated ryot-friendly agriculture policy even after six decades of independence.

An unequivocal demand was implementation in full of the nine recommendations made by the National Commission for Farmers headed by M.S. Swaminathan, especially the one on the minimum support price (MSP) for major crops.

Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu spoke on social and economic equity for farmers. He regretted that while successive Governments went all out to give incentives to industrialists, they did not do much on subsidy for ryots.

BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu advised farmers to pressure political parties to adopt agriculture as first priority, alongside industrial development.

He said the basic flaw was that not enough care was taken to improve the rural infrastructure, while every government appeared to be going all-out to do everything in urban areas.

Animal Husbandry Minister Mandali Buddha Prasad spoke.

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