Dark truth of farm suicides: Rythu Bandhu no ‘friend’ of tenant ryots

Hyderabad | Monday | 19th November, 2018

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TRS has now promised us that tenant farmers will also be included in Rythu Bandhu, which will help us,” he says. “Tenant farmers are not benefited by the Rythu Bandhu scheme. In that situation, loan waiver does not serve the needy farmers. “Most of the institutional credit goes to landowners and not to the real cultivators who take land on lease and cultivate. But unfortunately, in Telangana, the government made a mistake of restricting it only to landowners..