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Farmers on hunger strike in Orissa | Farmers in Kalahandi District have gone on an indefinite hunger strike today, demanding compensation for crop damage. Scores of farmers assembled at the Block
office and met officials to highlight their demands. Paddy crops over thousands
of hectares have been damaged by cash worm varieties of pests. The agitating farmers
are demanding compensation, crop insurance benefits, and interest waiver on crop
loans, among a host of other demands. "These pests infest and destroy farms rapidly.
We demand that the government should Farmers on hunger strike in India's eastern
Kalahandi.supply insecticide and pesticide for free. Also, we demand compensation
for the farmers, crop insurance benefits to those farmers who had insured their
crop, interest waiver on crop loans and fresh loans (for ensuing spring harvest),"
said Sudhansu Sekhar Panda, a farmer. We will provide all the possible help to
the affected farmers, said an official. I just discussed their problems and whatever
possible with us, we will do, definitely we will stand by the farmers," said Jagannath
Mohanty, Sub-collector, Dharamgarh. The farmers have warned that they will take
extreme steps like suicide if their demands are not met. |
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