Farmers continue stir demanding full crop loan waiver and penal interest

Members of various farmers’ organisations continued their sit-in agitation demanding full crop loan waiver for the third day near Samayapuram in Tiruchi on Thursday.

The farmers, who began the agitation on September 15, have been demanding that the State government waive the crop loans of farmers fully without conditions.

Although Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment S. Ramesh, Minister for Cooperatives V. Gandhiraj, Minister for Agriculture R. Vinod, and Deputy Speaker M. Ravishankar on Tuesday held talks with the leaders of the organisations in Tiruchi, they could not persuade them to withdraw the agitation.