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Waive off agriculture loans
The leaders of various farmers’ associations which met here on Friday demanded the state government in one voice to waive the agriculture loans, keeping in view of the severe drought gripping Chittoor district consecutively for the past three years.
Tirupati: The leaders of various farmers’ associations which met here on Friday demanded the state government in one voice to waive the agriculture loans, keeping in view of the severe drought gripping Chittoor district consecutively for the past three years. At a round-table conference here, the leaders sought the government to waive the agriculture loans in all the mandals in the district that were declared by the government as drought affected.
Highlights:
- Say farmers were severely hit due to dry spell consecutively for the past three years
- Farmers resorting to distress sale of cattle due to severe drinking water shortage coupled with fodder scarcity, lament farmers’ associations
Pointing that the farmers were severely hit due to dry spell consecutively for the past three years, the leaders vociferously sought total waiving of loans within this year to bail out the farmers, who suffered heavy loss due to crop failure since 2016 Kharif season.
Those participated in the round-table discussion on Chittoor district drought include Federation of Farmers Association (FFA) state president Mangati Gopal Reddy, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh organising secretary J Kumaraswamy, CPI supported Vyavasaya Sangham R Venkataiah, BJP Kisan Morcha state leader Subrmanya Yadav and YSR Congress Party farmers wing state secretary Madhusudana Reddy.
Mangati Gopal Reddy said reports indicated that in many mandals distress sale of cattle is taking place due to severe drinking water shortage coupled with fodder scarcity. The government should construct cement tubs in all drought-hit villages for providing water to save cattle, he added. Reddy recalled the indefinite fast undertaken by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in 2010 when he was in opposition to press the government for payment of Rs 10,000 as input subsidy per acre to the drought affected farmers.
He wanted the government to pay Rs 10,000 as input subsidy without any link to crop insurance to the drought-hit farmers. The others demands of the farmers associations include stop public auction of gold ornaments below ten gram pledged by farmers in the banks for agriculture, borewells digging and supply of fodder free of cost in drought-hit mandals, reopening of cooperative sugar factories at Chittoor and Renigunta, speedy completion of Handri-Neeva and Galeru-Nagari project works.
