Other States - Pondicherry   

Farmers' union seeks bank loan waiver

Special Correspondent

Pondicherry: The Pondicherry Farmers' Union has called upon the nationalised banks to waive loans taken by farmers under different agricultural schemes. The Secretary of the union, T. Geethanathan, said here in a release on Wednesday that the general council of the union at its meeting adopted a resolution that it would make a plea to the Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on September 1.

The other pleas of the Union were: free power supply to farmers and free insurance cover for all livestock in the Union Territory of Pondicherry.

Their demands also included the take over of the New Horizon Sugar Mills (which is now defunct) at Ariyur near Pondicherry, farm inputs as well as seeds for farmers to enable them to carry on their farm operations and immediate distribution of subsidies to dairy farmers to purchase cattle feed.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Government Medical College construction begins
Contract labour system opposed
Farmers' union seeks bank loan waiver
Legislators oppose move to sell Government lands to private entrepreneurs
New Chief Secretary
Moopanar remembered

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu