Adilabad: Nearly 10 lakh tenant farmers and those who did not get pattas to the lands they have been cultivating under the Forest Rights Act are likely to lose the government benefit of Rs 4,000 financial assistance to each acre to the farmer in the state.
The state government had earlier decided to give loan eligibility cards to at least 4.20 lakh tenant farmers in the state, but cards were not issued to even 1 per cent tenant farmers.
Only Rs 23 crore out of total Rs 17,000 crore crop loan waiver was applied to the tenant farmers in the state. The tenant farmers and farmers who cultivate lands without getting rights certificates under the Forest Rights Act were a neglected lot and not given bank loans. Farmers who gave their agriculture lands on lease to the tenant farmers were enjoying all the government benefits such as Rs 1 lakh crop loan waiver, getting bank loans, compensation for crop damage due to natural calamities, crop insurance.
And now, they were going to avail of the benefit of Rs 4,000 to each acre for two seasons being offered by the state government. As many as 3.23 lakh farmers took crop loans from various banks in the old Adilabad district and among them, 60 per cent were small and marginal farmers.
