Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy disbursed Rs 200 crore input subsidy and interest subvention of YSR Sunna Vaddi Panta Runalu to farmers in the State on Monday.

          Jagan said that the State will only prosper when farmers are happy.  YSRCP Government has been implementing various welfare schemes for farmers and regularly paying input subsidies, crop loans and crop insurance to them for the past three-and-a-half years, he added.

We have set a new trend of paying input subsidy to farmers in the same cropping season like never before, he said. A total of Rs 39.39 crore input subsidy was credited directly into the bank accounts of 45,998 farmers, who lost their crops due to heavy rains and floods during the Kharif (July-October) season this year. A sum of Rs 160.55 crore was directly credited into the bank accounts of 8,22,411 farmers, who had taken crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh during the Rabi and Kharif 2020-21 and repaid on time.

The State Government has so far paid Rs 1,834.78 crore to 21.31 lakh farmers, including the latest Rs 39.39 crore input subsidy, who lost their crops due to natural calamities in the last three-and-a-half years. With regard to interest subvention, Rs 1,834.55 crore has been paid to 73.88 lakh farmers so far, he explained.

YS Jagan said that the YSRC Government has so far cleared payments to the tune of Rs 1,834.55 crore, including the arrears kept pending by the previous regime, which completely ignored the welfare of tenant farmers. As 62% of the population is dependent on agriculture, the YSRC Government has been systematically implementing the input subsidy and zero-interest schemes after assessing the crop loss in a scientific manner.

It has been displaying the list of beneficiaries at RBKs facilitating social audits and activating a response system that revolves around complaints in July and December every year, he elaborated.

YSRC Government has been doing scientific assessments of crop loss based on
e-Crop data and providing aid to actual cultivators, including tenant farmers. He also highlighted various schemes being implemented by his government. A total of Rs 1,37,975.47 crore has been provided to farmers under different schemes so far, YS Jagan  said.