Farm labourers from Uttar Pradesh are praising Telangana’s farmer-friendly schemes being implemented in the state.
The welfare schemes and facilities provided by the State government to the agriculture sector impressed the labourers who migrated here in a big way to work in paddy plantations across the State.
They claimed that, aside from free 24-hour power supply, schemes such as Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima, and adequate water for agriculture fields through irrigation projects were greatly assisting farmers in the state, and that no such schemes were being implemented in Uttar Pradesh.
During the last few weeks, a 13-member team of labourers from Tanakpur road, Neoria Husainpur, Pilibhit district of UP, has been engaged in paddy plantation in various areas of the district.
One of them, Ashid Bairagi, was quoted as saying that in addition to Telangana, they had worked in paddy fields in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and other states in recent years. Not only UP, but no other state, he stated, was implementing such farmer-benefit schemes.
They couldn’t find much work in UP because paddy was cultivated in a smaller area, so they were forced to migrate to Telangana and other states to make a living. Furthermore, they were earning twice as much in Telangana. In UP, they would be getting Rs.350 per day, whereas in Telangana, they would be getting Rs.600 per day, according to Bairagi.
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Another labourer, Golak Mandal, stated that they used to frequently travel to AP but were recently coming to Telangana. He said that Telangana provided more facilities to farmers than other states.
Aside from that, the atmosphere in the State was pleasant, and the people were friendly, according to Rina Mandal, who added that they would be in the State for three months for work.
In the meantime, local agents are engaging labourers from UP, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Chhattisgarh to work in paddy fields here. Aside from providing shelter, cooking gas and rice, labourers are being given Rs.3,500 to Rs.4,500 per team for plantation of paddy in an acre of land.
Every day, each team works on four to five acres, with the agents charging a commission of Rs.900 to Rs.1,000 per acre from the labourers.
Gujjula Srinivas Reddy, a farmer from Ramakrishna Colony in Thimmapur mandal, said local labourers charged Rs.5,800 to sow paddy on an acre of land. Migrant workers, on the other hand, would do the same work at much lesser rates.
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