June 11, 2019
According to the farmers, the crop bidders are not willing to pay even 70% of the previous year’s bidding price due to damage the orchards have suffered. These farmers are being paid a one-time compensation of Rs 1,500 per tree (Mango and cashew), whereas the actual damage is about eight times.
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Magireddy Chinna Rao, a farmer from Uratla village near Narsipatnam said, “Last season the crop was so scarce that most of
the traders refused to step into the orchards. Over the last three years, the minimum base price
(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/base-price) for my 10-acre mango and cashew orchard has been Rs 1.5 lakh. However,
now, the traders are not willing to give more than Rs 1 lakh.
Sources in the horticulture department said that more than 40,000 hectares of mango and cashew orchards have been damaged this year. They added that the base price for farmers will not go up for another two seasons to come, looking at the damage suffered.
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