Agriculture Minister P. Prasad told the Assembly on Thursday that the State Agriculture Debt Relief Commission would underwrite farmers’ debt.
Climate change-induced vagaries of weather, and escalating fertilizer and farming costs had pushed cultivators into bad times. The government would provide them relief. The government has sought applications from worst-hit farmers.
The Commission has already disbursed ₹265.66 crore to farmers. It would hold more sittings. Mr. Prasad was replying to an adjournment motion on farmers’ issues moved by Congress legislator T. Siddique.
