Overview
- After visiting Montha-hit villages in Krishna district, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy called for immediate compensation to all affected farmers.
- He sought clearance of roughly Rs 600 crore in alleged pending dues and asked the state to pay premiums for the upcoming Rabi season, warning of agitation if there is no action.
- He alleged the current government dismantled universal free crop insurance, saying coverage fell from about 84.8 lakh farmers earlier to around 19 lakh now.
- He cited damage to approximately 15 lakh acres statewide, including about 11 lakh acres of paddy, as reports put overall losses at a minimum of Rs 5,244 crore.
- He criticized what he called hurried and flawed crop-loss enumeration, pointing to anomalies such as e-cropping figures exceeding 100% in Bapatla.