Help Lanka with food grains, not funds: Ryots
Instead of handing over funds to the tune of Rs 7,500 crore to Sri Lanka, which has been facing an acute food shortage in the wake of the unprecedented economic crisis, the Centre should procure food grains from our farmers with that fund and send them to the island nation, said PR Pandian, president of Coordination Committee of All Farmers Associations, here on Wednesday.
TIRUCHY: Speaking to media persons after an urgent meeting of the committee, PR Pandian said the people of Sri Lanka have been affected by food scarcity and it is apt to send farm produce instead of extending financial support. “We welcome the funding to the tune of Rs 7,500 crore to Lanka but it will be better to send food products worth the money. The Centre can procure crops like onion, tomato, paddy and other vegetables from farmers and send them instead of monetary assistance. It will also help farmers,” he suggested.
He claimed that farmers in India have been staging a series of protests as they are not able to get good returns for their crops and a huge quantity of paddy has piled up in almost all the villages and added that farmers who cultivate vegetables throw away their produce due to poor price.
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