Hyderabad, Sept. 2 -- Eight political parties on Wednesday, September 2, jointly issued a statement asking the state government to immediately implement the 2011 Licensed Cultivators Act to identify tenant farmers in the state, issue identity cards to licensed cultivators, and provide them access to government schemes and other support systems.

The meeting was organised by the Telangana Tenant Farmers Recognition Struggle Committee, presided over by its convenor, Prof. D. Narasimha Reddy.

The statement said that tenant farmers should be identified during the current Kharif season, based on the rules framed for implementing the 2011 Act. They also demanded that tenant farmers be allowed to sell the crops they cultivate directly to the go...