DAP availability: early signals worth watching

Urea trouble. It rained, but there is still no fertilizer. We have been standing since morning, but it still hasn't come. Is this our life? For fertilizer, we have to submit an application and stand in a queue for hours; even then, if we do not get it on time, what will happen to our crop? We submitted an application for fertilizer. We are standing in a queue for hours for fertilizer, but we do not know whether we will get fertilizer on time. Should we look after crop work or keep submitting applications for fertilizer? If the bag is not available when needed, what should the farmer do? This system has become very difficult for us. We have to buy seed, buy fertilizer, buy medicines, and pay labour charges; how much is left for the farmer? A farmer cannot decide the price of the crop they grow. But why are the costs of growing the crop increasing so much? For so many days they made us apply for urea bags. Now they are saying that even for 20 DAP bags, we have to book through an application. How many more applications do farmers need to submit? Is this application system really useful to farmers, or does it make things more difficult by not making fertilizer available when it is needed? What do farmers think about this problem? What are the officials saying? What is the actual solution? We will discuss all this now.

That is, the farmer welfare scheme was not stopped even during the coronavirus when KCR was in power; even during Corona, KCR continued Rythu Bandhu and protected farmers. But today Revanth Reddy says, 'How can I give 15,000 when I came saying 10,000?' He did not give 15,000, and Rythu Bandhu has been stopped for three crops. As for loan waiver, those who have not received it are all waiting to come; for half the people the loan waiver has not happened. Revanth Reddy took an oath on Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy that he would complete the loan waiver by August, saying, 'I am swearing on Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy.' He deceived even God. Three August deadlines have already passed. Even now, there is no situation in the state where the loan waiver has been done. Earlier, when KCR was there, if any farmer unfortunately died, under Rythu Bima, within a week the family would get assistance of Rs. 5 lakh. Today Revanth Reddy has also cancelled that farmer insurance. Rythu Bima is gone, Rythu Bandhu is gone, the loan waiver is half-done. Today farmers are not getting electricity. Recently, during the summer, paddy was sold; how much deduction did you take? Four kilos per quintal, five kilos per quintal you took as deductions. Two to three kilos per bag were taken in the procurement centres. Revanth Reddy speaks in the Assembly saying, 'If anyone takes deductions, I will skin them.' The speeches are good, but at the paddy procurement centres, two to three kilos were cut from each bag. This Revanth Reddy government has turned into a puppet in the hands of millers and brokers. The Congress government has completely failed to do justice to farmers. Today, regarding urea, when KCR was there, if you told an auto driver, he would bring three bags to the house. If you said 'three bags,' he would go to Bhongir and bring three bags home. Today, even if people stand in queues and face so many hardships, they know how much trouble there is for urea. The price of DAP, which used to be Rs. 1,300, has now increased to Rs. 2,100 or Rs. 2,200. The price increased in 2020; DAP prices increased. Urea is not available. Whatever is seen, farmers have been put into hardship. That is why the farmers' rule is gone; today in this state a cruel rule called Revanth Reddy's rule is running. If you ask, there are cases; if you question, there is bail, cases, and jails. Is there nothing else? If you speak, cases are filed; if you question, you are put in jail. If you speak more, they say they will impose TADA on you and file this case or that case. Today, has anyone fulfilled even one promise? Today what are they saying? If you say, 'Sir, electricity is not coming,' they say El Nino has come. If you say, 'Water is not coming,' they say El Nino has come. Really, today it is not because of El Nino, but because of the failure of Revanth Reddy's administration that electricity is not reaching the farming community in the state. When KCR was there, there used to be electricity at the borewells even at night and until morning. But after Revanth came, we have forgotten night-time electricity. Even now it is coming only at 7:30 or 8 in the morning, and the electricity goes off for homes by 4 or 5 in the evening. Today, what is this El Nino? If there were no rains and no water, would water not come? If Revanth Reddy does not start the motors, won't water come? Water has come in the Krishna river; if the Kalwakurthy motors and AMR motors are run, water could come today, but Revanth Reddy is not able to switch on the motors. If five motors exist in Kalwakurthy, only two are running. AMR and SLBC motors are not being run. If they run, water could come today. For Andhra, water has become tears for Telangana. Today, Chandrababu Naidu is taking water to Andhra Pradesh through the Koti Reddy party. He is taking water through Pattiseema, through the Rayalaseema Lift, and through the Veligonda project. But Revanth Reddy is only turning on one or two motors out of five, and even that only until morning; at night they are kept shut. If they are shut at night, shouldn't water be lifted? This is not drought brought by the season; this is drought brought by the Congress party. This is not drought brought by the season; this is drought brought by Revanth Reddy. Why am I saying this? Because today, after giving electricity and water, KCR gave cotton and paddy, but it has gone now. In our Nalgonda district...