Extend crop loans to farmers liberally: DC

West Godavari District Collector Chadalavada Nagarani has directed the NABARD and UBI officials to extend crop loans to the farmers and tenant farmers extensively. The Collector also asked them to reschedule the loans to farmers in the flood affected areas. Collector Nagarani here on Thursday presided over an emergency DCC bankers’ meeting with UBI and NABARD officials on the rescheduling of loans to the farmers who have suffered losses in the flood-affected areas and the granting of crop loans to farmers and tenant farmers. Speaking on the occasion, the District Collector said that 9,918 farmers have lost crops in 5,297.32 hectares in 94 villages in June in West Godavari district due to heavy rains and floods. She said that 6,050 farmers lost their crop in 3,454.89 hectares in 122 villages in July and August and 963 horticulture farmers lost their crop in 238 hectares. The State Government has decided to suspend the loans of all the farmers who have lost their crops for two years and extend crop loans to the farmers and tenant farmers extensively. A new joint liability, JLG group has been formed and it has been ordered to grant loans on the surety of the group, the Collector revealed. Moreover, Collector Nagarani asked the bankers to grant loans to the dairy farmers without delay in the livestock-related PKCC loans as per their eligibility. DRO J Udaya Bhaskara Rao, UBI Regional Head T Sangeeta Kumari, District Lead Bank Manager A Nagendra Prasad, NABARD Director T Anil Kant, District Agriculture Department Officer Z Venkateswara Rao and District Animal Husbandry Department Officer Dr K Murali Krishna were among those who attended the meeting