Summary:
The allocation of Rs 10,000 crore to the farm loans will hardly benefit the farmers. The only thing looking like a boost is Rs 10,000 crore farm loans. Among several expectations for announcements for the projects for agriculture in Tamil Nadu, the silence over the AIADMK government on the waiver of agriculture loans irked the farmers.“Out of Rs 1.97 lakh crore of budgets the share for agriculture is throwaway. To be precise, none of the defaulters can get the loan,” he said adding that it looked like a budget eyeing election.The farmers pointed out that the farm loan allocation of Rs 8,500 crore last year was not fully disbursed. In reality, it shows the mentality of the government to burden the farmers with further loans without making any proactive measures to turn agriculture a profitable business,” said Ayyakannu while expressing his disappointment for not declaring Cauvery delta a protected agriculture zone in the government..