Former MP and TPCC vice president Ponnam Prabhakar has asked the State Government to understand the realistic problems of the farmers at the ground level like unpaid dues of their produce in market yards and lackadaisical attitude of the bankers in extending loans even as the kharif season has begun, and take appropriate steps rather than making fancy statements.
In a letter written to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao here, Mr. Prabhakar said that though Marketing Minister, T. Harish Rao and Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy were making tall statements of releasing the money due to farmers in just one day, . But at the ground level farmers are forced to go around the market yards for weeks and yet their money was not released.
At the same time, banks were not extending loans and farmers were forced to run to private lenders. Since the final instalment of loan waiver is yet to reach the banks farmers’ passbooks are with the banks. Banks were also not giving farmers’ own money due to shortage of cash and all these are forcing the farmers to run to private lenders.
Despite stringent measures promised by the Government on spurious seeds and traders, farmers continue to face the problem with little action from the officials, he said and asked the Chief Minister to come to the rescue of the farmers.
