Totapuri (locally called “Bengalura”) Variety is grown on 50,000 hectares in undivided Chittoor district
The trotting of mango farmers, especially Totapuri varieties, continues to grow without having a solution in sight. Fruits are ripe and ready for harvest, but with the scores of fruit pulp units in the districts of Tirupati and Chittoor, they are reluctant to award public contracts for the last two years.
Totapuri (locally called “Bengalura”) variety is grown on 50,000 hectares in an undivided Chittoor district and this year the yield is tied to an incredible six Lakh tons.
At a joint meeting with representatives of the Mangova pulp unit, the leaders of the farmers and the owners of the “Mandi” recently, the Sumit Kumar (Chittoor) and S. Venkateswar (Tirupati) district collectors announced the order of manga from farmers for 12 kg. After the factories were heard, the government replied the 4/kg support price, requiring the factories to pay £ 8/kg.
Farmers usually liquidate products by direct delivery to factories, the nearest mandi, ramps (one -off shopping points where production is loaded directly into the waiting trucks), and in the nearest organization of farmers’ producers (FPO), which in turn supplies factories.
The government deployed officials in factories, ramps, FPOS and Mandis to take details of farmers and a quantum of supplies. Despite such a reliable factory measure, they reportedly insisted on the rapid solution of the collected pulp before they threw their gates with open incoming production.
Agitated farmers on Wednesday (June 11) organized a protest against the inability of district machines to implement their orders to award public procurement on Junction on the National Chittoor-Kkunool highway.
Meanwhile, some factories have partially opened their gates to buy mangoes, but behind the slope of £ 5 per kg and not compulsory £ 8/kg. “For 5 GBP we will not even have the cost of harvesting and transporting revenue to the factories,” Goduguchinta Ravindra guaranteed the farmer.
Although there are ramps that load fruit into waiting trucks linked to the northern states, it is not clear how to ensure the details of the farmer (recipient) and take into account this offer. “If we are paid for the supply of ramps, many shares will be cleaned in any time,” says B. Dhananjaya Naida, mango supplier for three decades.
Published – June 13, 2025 20:32
