Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay expanded the state's crop loan waiver scheme, raising the full waiver limit from Rs 50,000 to Rs 75,000 for cooperative bank loans. The revised package will benefit 14.43 lakh farmers at an estimated cost of Rs 5,932 crore
About 68 per cent of farmers in Telangana are small and marginal farmers, who are more prone to nutritional deficiencies, and there's a need for counselling to address these issues
The study, titled 'Annual Survey Of State Of Marginal Farmers In India', highlights that 84 percent of the marginal farmers in spite of low profits and natural calamities are not willing to quit farming,