The Association of Farmers Andhra Pradesh demanded on Sunday that the state government should buy Black Burley and White Burley Tobacco for the same rate as last year.
A. Katamayya’s President of the Association and General Secretary of P. Jamalayya insisted that the government kept the suicide of tobacco farmers seriously and put pressure on society to buy full tobacco crops. They accused tobacco companies of creating syndicates and using severely earned tenants’ production. They blamed the state and claimed that the government’s inability to ensure the purchase of tobacco led to suicide.
The head of the Association said that only three days ago the tenant of the farmer Uppaturi Sambasivarao (42) Yerannapal in Mandal Parchur, the Bapatla district, which cultivated Black Burley to five acres of rented land, died suicide. In a mandala incala, a lease farmer on behalf of Samson of Duddakur’s village attempted suicide for the rejection of societies to buy a crop. In Mandala, several farmers protested protested with the release of bags of unsold tobacco on the road because companies could not honor the purchase agreements. In the MaddiPad district in the Prakasam district, the company refused tobacco with a low quality quotation and reduced the price, forcing farmers to burn their unsold tobacco.
Farmers of tenants who grow 90% of Burley black tobacco in the state are in terrible straits because they are often denied loans due to lack of official tenants. As a result, many mortgages with a mortgage lent money and cultivated tobacco. Given that companies that are not willing to obtain their harvest are farmers in a deep need, and if the state government remains indifferent, more suicides may appear in the future, the association headed and adding that they would mobilize all tobacco farmers and start upset if the government could not recognize their requirements.
Published – May 11, 2025 17:16
