Farmers are deeply worried about the lack of remunerative price for tomato crop, and AIKMS District General Secretary M. Satyanna demanded that the state government immediately provide remunerative price to the farmers who grow tomatoes. On Wednesday, he inspected the crops being sold by farmers at the Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Market in the local town of Emmiganur.
He said that the farmers are expressing their concern that since there is not even a rupee per kg price for tomato farmers, there is a situation where tomatoes are being thrown on the roads. He said that the state government has promised to set up cold storage to store the crop when there is no remunerative price for the crop. He demanded that the state government immediately set up cold storage in Emmiganur and support the tomato farmers.
He also said that since there is no farmer’s bazaar in Emmiganur town, farmers are being cheated by middlemen of the crop grown by farmers. Therefore, the higher officials responded and asked for efforts to set up a farmers’ market in Emmiganur town itself. Since the people of the surrounding villages are mostly in the Pathikonda area, the higher officials asked for tomato juice factories to be started in the surrounding areas of Pathikonda. In this program, IFTU district leaders S. Balaraju, Babu, farmers Kosigayya, Peddaiah, Veeresh, Dastagiri, Nabi Rasool, Budhaiah, Mallikarjuna, Mahesh, Nagaraju, and others participated.
