The farmer walked 22 km – Demands for drought relief and solutions to various problems

Sambalpur: On Friday, hundreds of farmers from the Padiabahal area of Jujumura Block came out in a procession and marched on foot to Sambalpur arrive at the district commissioner’s office. According to the claim, the farmers did not receive insurance for crop damage due to drought, pestilence and unwanted rains during the kharif and rabi seasons of 2020 respectively, while during the kharif season of 2021, all the crops are destroyed by the rain, pest, leaf blight, seed blight,
Similarly, the non-irrigated lands of the panchayat, which depend entirely on rainwater, have been affected by the drought this time around. Elephant, and other wildlife have destroyed the crops in some areas. They want Govt. to announced 2021 crop insurance and drought declarations, input subsidies, adequate token arrangements for farmland, closure of e-transport systems, complete shutdown of cotton harvests, complete waiver of agricultural loans, Irrigation system, measures to protect crops from wildlife, proper assessment of crop losses and proper identification of beneficiaries, demanded that special ICUs be set up at Burla Big Hospital for farmers. The procession was led by Mrityunjaya Panigrahi, president of Padiabahal, the Jayadurga farmers’ organization.