Key Points:

• Many onion farmers have not been issued tenant recognition cards due to restrictive provisions in AP Crop Cultivators Rights Act, it says .
• With falling market prices, tenant farmers are suffering heavy losses .
• APTFA urges government to purchase onions at ₹3,000 per quintal to safeguard tenant farmers’ livelihoods .
• Compensation for onion crops should reach tenant farmers, says APTFA