The Cabinet constituted a sub-committee comprising ministers to vet a policy to provide crop insurance to the farmers.
A farmer in Andhra Pradesh. (iStock)
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday, 16 July, decided to make tenant farmers eligible for crop loans. The Cabinet decided to study the problem further and evolve a mechanism by which the tenant farmers would also get crop loans. The Cabinet also discussed issuing tenant farmer cards to them.