more-inModel farmer from Krishna district and “Janamanchi Gowri Sankar” Award winner Bogala Rajesh, who passed M. Tech in computers and took up agriculture, said ‘Kisan banks’ should be set up to support tenant farmers who are being denied loans by banks. “Farm to Home” concept to avoid the interference of middlemen should be encouraged everywhere in the State. Market interventionMr. Rajesh said that farmers should get standard income like other professions for which he is trying to encourage farmers to take up organic farming with market intervention to double the yield. He said that governments are talking about welfare of the farmers, but the ground reality was different. The issue of minimum support price for the produce had not been addressed till date.

Source: The Hindu January 28, 2018 19:18 UTC