In the fertile delta of Andhra Pradesh, where tobacco has long anchored the lives of farming families, a Saturday morning meeting brought Union and state officials together to confront a deepening agricultural crisis. The Centre arrived with three concrete proposals — liquidity loans, financial incentives, and price protection — while Chief Minister Naidu pressed for something harder to legislate: a durable framework that would spare future generations the same precarity. What unfolded was not a resolution but a reckoning, a recognition that the distance between relief and remedy is where the