Vijayamma to write to PM, Pawar on crop losses

Khammam, Nov 9, 2012: YSR Congress honourary president Smt.Y. S. Vijayamma said she would write to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on the crop losses suffered by the farmers in the state in the aftermath of the Nilam cyclone and the subsequent floods.

Speaking to reporters here at the end of a day’s tour of the flood-hit areas in Khammam district on Thursday, Vijayamma demanded the Government to build houses to those who lost shelter in the floods and provide subsidy fertilizers and seeds to the affected farmers for their Rabi crop.

Vijayamma also asked the Government to announce bank loan waiver for farmers and order the Cotton Corporation of India to purchase the damaged cotton.