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APCLC terms farmers' suicides ‘State murders'

TIRUPATI: The Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) has said that the suicides in the State by the farmers—nearly 170 in the last ten days alone, was nothing short of State murders in as much as they were caused by the alleged failure of the government to provide them the required succour in time in the form of MSP for their produce, procurement, marketing facilities, supply of farm inputs at subsidised rates besides, farm loans.

The Chittoor district convenor of the APCLC, Kumar has in a statement said that the very fact that nearly 75 per cent of the farmers in the State have degenerated to the status of ‘tenant farmers' in the recent times, was itself a sad commentary on the government administration and the emergence of much-hyped SEZ's in the name of economic reforms and globalisation.

Crop loss

Holding the government squarely responsible for the tragic manner in which the farmers were ending their lives caught as they were in the debt-traps and the crop loss due to serial cyclones, the APCLC demanded providing lands to all farmers ending the tenant land system, implementation of Swaminathan Committee reports, and ex-officio payment of Rs.1.5 lakh each to the families of the farmers who ended their lives and so on.

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