Raipur, November 25, 2011
PCC president Nandkumar Patel on Thursday met Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Charandas Mahant at New Delhi and informed him about the farmers’ woes in Chhattisgarh. He informed the minister that the farmers were severely frustrated by indifferent attitude of the state government despite knowing that their got damaged due to flood. “The agriculture has ceased to be a beneficial business in Chhattisgarh. Eventually, the farmers are unable to pay back their loan. This has dispirited the state farmers,” Patel said.
He further informed Mahant that he had visited village Pandrapat under Bagicha block (Jashpur district) to meet the family members of farmer Bal Bhagwan Yadav who committed suicide recently. He said Yadav was potato producer and was heavily indebted as the farmers could not get more than Rs 2000 per acre of potato crop production. Mahant assured Patel that he would talk to the state government to provide fertilizers and other agriculture-related materials to the farmers at fair price.
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