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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers for policy initiatives to mitigate agricultural crisis

Farmers for policy initiatives to mitigate agricultural crisis

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published Published on May 29, 2018   modified Modified on May 29, 2018
-The Hindu

KRRS and Hasiru Sene seek to remind CM Kumaraswamy of his pre-poll promise of a loan waiver

MYSURU:
Farmers from the region have come out with a 10-point agenda for the new coalition government in the State to ensure the welfare of cultivators and mitigate agricultural distress.

The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene have sought to remind the Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy of his pre-election promise of a loan waiver. They sought an immediate announcement in this regard and the implementation of others measures as long-term solutions to the crisis plaguing the agricultural sector.

Adequate credit-flow

Badagalapura Nagendra, General Secretary, KRRS, said a loan waiver was not the only solution and the need of the hour was a comprehensive study of the reasons for the crisis and evolving of permanent solutions. This includes ensuring short-term institutional finance without interest to be made available to the farmers.

While ensuring timely and adequate credit-flow to farmers was one aspect, what was equally important was to enable the farmers to be financial strong to repay loans. This calls for special socio-economic and educational programmes to empower the rural community as a whole, said Mr. Nagendra.

Agro-based industries

Adopting a holistic view of the agrarian crisis, the KRRS called upon the new government to encourage agro-based industries that will propel the demand for agricultural produce besides shoring up their prices so as to help farmers by ensuring an assured market and an assured rate.

This, the KRRS hoped, would also reverse the rural-urban migration pattern and encourage more youth from the villages to stick to agriculture. The value-addition to agricultural produce will not only help farmers but also the industry and shore up economic conditions in rural areas, it added.

Tweaking policies

Drawing the attention of the Chief Minister to the problems faced by sugarcane cultivators, the KRRS and Hasiru Sene called for tweaking the existing policies to benefit farmers.

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The Hindu, 28 May, 2018, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/farmers-for-policy-initiatives-to-mitigate-agricultural-crisis/article24008450.ece


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