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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Loan waiver for UP farmers may open up Pandora’s box for BJP

Small and marginal farmers in Uttar Pradesh expect to soon get loan waiver as promised by BJP in its state election manifesto. 

But the move could well see similar demands from other states ruled by BJP. 

The govt however has no plans of extending this elsewhere, and would rather allocate money to create agriculture infrastructure. 

Here is a look at how much of state of farm loans in the country and the number of debt-ridden farmer households.






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