A debate on drought situation in the state has taken place in AP Assembly on Thursday. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said there is no significant rainfall and the state is facing 48 percent deficit rainfall. Though its the second week of July, there is no situation to sow the seeds. CM YS Jagan said it had been only two months since they came into power.
He said that they are taking measures to face the drought situation in the state. He also criticized that the earlier government has not even given the input subsidy to the farmers. The Chief Minister said that the state had faced a severe drought in the last five years. He said the previous TDP government did not even collect the seeds which should begin in last November, must end by April and distribution should start by May.