Tadepalli, Oct. 12 -- YSRCP General Secretary MVS Nagi Reddy on Sunday strongly criticised the coalition government led by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for its complete failure in the agriculture sector, stating that the state is witnessing a severe cultivation crisis.

Speaking at the YSRCP Central Office in Tadepalli, Nagi Reddy said the decline in cultivation and government negligence have pushed lakhs of farmers and agricultural labourers into distress.

He said that due to the government's failures, the total cultivated area in Andhra Pradesh has fallen drastically. During YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's five-year tenure, an average of 32.94 lakh hectares was cultivated every kharif season. However, in the last two years of coalition rule, it...