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| Fully compensate distressed farmers or face action: Bhardwaj | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 14: Alleging that farmers in Jammu region are facing the worst ever crisis witnessed in the recent past on account of multiple failure of their crops due to vagaries of weather, the senior Congress leader and member AICC, Mohinder Bhardwaj has said their plight has been worsened by the in-different attitude of the centre and the state governments
Addressing a press conference here today, Bhardwaj said that the central as well as state governments have offered the suffering peasantry nothing but hollow promises. Referring to the multi-crop failure during the last year Bhardwaj, who is also a senior advocate, said that the farmers were expecting a bumper Rabi crop of rice but untimely heavy rains and windstorms dashed all their hopes. In the same manner the wheat sowing season has also been destroyed due to untimely rains.
As a result the farmers have become helpless and finding it hard to make heir two ends meet. " It has become an uphill task for them to feed their families, pay children's school fee and meet health care exigencies," he added.
Bhardwaj wondered that as to why has the state, administration looked the other way and turned a deaf ear to the demand of the farmers to adequately compensate them for the losses suffered, by them due to none of their fault. "The farmers in particular in Bishnah region are mostly small farmers with small land holdings and agriculture is their source of livelihood. It is shocking that the Union Territory administration has not realized the seriousness of the situation as the current farm crisis could lead to farmers coming on the roads as they have nothing to fall back upon as means of survival," he further said.
Expressing shock that the administration woke up after long and conducted a survey of losses suffered by the farmers but only after consistent pressure built by Congress and farmers themselves, Bhardwaj said what came out as a result of this survey is ridiculous and insulting to the farmers who have suffered heavy losses.
He demanded that the administration should immediately announce hiked financial assistance to farmers which is commensurate to the losses suffered by them. |
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