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Floods destroyed crops worth billions of rupees, says Reddy | Andhra Pradesh's Agriculture Minister Raghuveera Reddy has
said that crops worth billions of rupees were damaged in by floods. "Due to the recent floods about 2 lakh 80 hectares of crops have damaged. The total loss that
we have preliminary assessed so far is about 1,250 crores and the input subsidy
which we are supposed to give to the farmers for their loss of crops would be
about 135 crores and for the alternate crops for the farmers to go the subsidy
that we have to give for the seeds may be and all will be about 52 crores," Reddy
said. Reddy also said that the affected farmers would be given full insurance
claim and bank loans. "We have directed all the officers to form teams mandal
wise where the university scientists are also part of the team. They will enumerate
and we will see to that that compensation is paid to them. Whatever alternate
crops they want to grow suggestion given by university scientists. And it's our
utmost importance to see that every farmers who have suffered a loss will be compensated
at the earliest," Reddy said. Reddy said the most affected crop was paddy among
others and the most affected districts include Kurnool, Mahboobnagar, Krishna,
Nellore, Nalgonda and Guntur. Over the past six days, floods caused by incessant
rains and swelling of rivers have continued to wreak havoc in the state rendering
5,20,000 people homeless by destroying 50,000 houses. |
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