K'handi farmers demand extension of insurance deadline

The Pioneer, Aug 1, 2011
PNS, Bhawanipatna

Farmers blocked the main road at Dharmagarh on Saturday demanding extension of last date for filing form for crop insurance. The last date of filing in the form to insure crop was August 30 last year. There was unprecedented queue for long time at the offices to fill the forms by the farmers but many were unable to do it. The deficient rain in the months of June and July has set the alarm bell ringing for an impending drought and the farmers are in a hurry to insure their crops as it would somehow compensate them in the event of crop loss.

However, reports said that farmers did not get the actual information for the last date of filing the form.