AMARAVATI: Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday will release input subsidy of Rs 534 crore to farmers who lost crops due to heavy rains and floods during November 2021.
He will also release Rs 29.51 crore to various farmers groups under YSR Yantra Seva Pathakam (farm mechanization scheme). About 5.71 lakh farmers would receive the input subsidy directly into their bank accounts soon after the chief minister releasing the input subsidy from the camp office. Similarly, 1220 farmers groups would get the benefit under farm mechanization scheme.
Agriculture minister Kurasala Kannababu said chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is very particular about clearing the input subsidy to the farmers who lost their crops due to natural calamities even before the completion of the crop season.
He said no government in the past had processed input subsidy claims so fast as the present government. "We wanted to help the farmers who lost their crop due to the natural calamities without any delay. Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's humanitarian approach is aimed at making the farmers do not lose trust in the governments," said Kannababu.
He said that the state government has been keeping its promise of extending financial assistance through input subsidy in the same crop season for the past two and half years.
The state government had so far extended Rs.1605 crore of financial assistance through input subsidy to about 19.67 lakh farmers since YS Jagan Mohan Reddy took over the reins of the state, said Kannababu.
He explained that the government had also supplied 1.21 lakh quintals of seed with 80 percent subsidy to help the farmers go for sowing operations after losing the crop. "The farmers were made to wait for years together to get the subsidized seed and input subsidy during the TDP regime. The YS Jagan government has completely changed the way the farmers should be treated," said the state government advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy.
He said that the government had initiated e-crop system through which the crop damages were assessed within no time after the farmers were hit by the natural calamities. He said that the farmers who were found to be left out of the beneficiaries list, could apply in the local village secretariat or Rythu Bharosa Kendra (RBK).
