Amaravati: YSR Congress Party president and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged on Sunday that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s 18-month rule had devastated farmers as crop prices have suffered a historic collapse during the period.

He said that under Naidu’s negligent rule, farmers, crushed by the steep fall in the prices of paddy, maize, banana, coconut, cotton, pulses, millets, chilli, tobacco, onion, tomato, cocoa, sugarcane, mango and several other crops, are being pushed to such distress that they are now forced to plough back their own cultivated produce due to the lack of government support.

Instead of acknowledging the crisis he created, Naidu is trying to divert attention through publicity gimmicks like “Raitanna- Meekosam” while attempting to make farmers

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