Farmers’ association welcomes re-enumeration for loan waiver scheme
The Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association has expressed support for the re-enumeration of beneficiaries under the agriculture loan waiver scheme. The association's secretary has requested that existing loans be converted to medium-term loans to facilitate new loans for cultivation. They also urged the government to include pending medium-term loans in the waiver scheme and to provide a financial overview of the state's condition.
- ▪The Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association supports the re-enumeration exercise for the loan waiver scheme.
- ▪Association secretary Sundara Vimalanathan requested the conversion of existing loans to medium-term loans for new cultivation.
- ▪The association urged the government to include pending medium-term loans in the waiver scheme and to release a White Paper on the state's financial condition.
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The Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association has welcomed the re-enumeration exercise to identify the beneficiaries of the agriculture loan waiver scheme announced by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay.While welcoming the decision, association secretary Sundara Vimalanathan, in a statement on May 30, sought the conversion of existing loans as medium-term loans so that the borrowers could avail fresh loans for kuruvai cultivation.Claiming that it was not a new practice, he said during the AIADMK regime headed by Edappadi K. Palanisamy, farmers faced a piquant situation wherein they were not able to repay the loans because of crop loss due to Cyclone Gaja and other natural calamities.
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