Hyderabad: Retired Supreme Court judge Justice B Sudershan Reddy has raised serious concerns over the growing trend of farmhouses replacing agricultural land in Telangana's suburban areas. He warned that this practice is steadily converting farmland into real estate projects, undermining its primary purpose of cultivation. Speaking at the release of the tenant farmers' survey report organized by Rythu Swarajya Vedika on Tuesday, Justice Reddy urged the government to show greater empathy toward farmers and take decisive action to protect tenant cultivators.
Farmhouses as Symbols of Land Misuse
Justice Reddy expressed disappointment over how farmhouses have taken over land parcels that should be devoted to agriculture. He noted that many of these establishments are neither true homes nor functioning farms, but rather symbols of land misuse. Highlighting troubling trends in Rangareddy and surrounding regions, he stressed that the government must step in to safeguard farming communities.
Call for Government Intervention
He called on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Rythu Commission chairperson M Kodanda Reddy, and Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao to convene a meeting focused on tenant farmers' issues. Justice Reddy also pressed for structural reforms in land records, advocating the reinstatement of a column in revenue records to indicate whether a parcel is held by a landowner, a cultivator, or a landowner-cum-cultivator. This update would help clarify many issues surrounding tenant farmers and enable the government to better understand land ownership dynamics, he said.
