Farmers stage protest seeking crop loan waiver in Erode

Farmers affiliated to assorted organisations staged a protestation astatine Modakkurichi connected Wednesday (June 10 2026), demanding waiver of harvest loans arsenic promised by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay during the predetermination campaign. Holding bundles of sugarcane, the farmers raised slogans urging the State authorities to fulfil its assurance to waive harvest loans.

Indefinite hunger onslaught planned

Easan Murugasamy, laminitis of the Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Protection Association, told reporters that farmers from 30 districts successful the State would motorboat an indefinite hunger onslaught from June 22 if the request was not met. The agitation would proceed done antiauthoritarian means until the authorities implemented a broad harvest indebtedness waiver.

Mr. Murugasamy alleged that the Government Order issued for the indebtedness waiver had provided lone constricted alleviation to farmers. Many beneficiaries had received lone a tiny magnitude and that the measurement had failed to code the indebtedness load faced by cultivators.

Pointing retired that farmers were struggling owed to inadequate prices for cultivation nutrient and rising input costs, helium said galore were incapable to repay their loans. He urged the Chief Minister to honour the predetermination committedness connected harvest indebtedness waiver. The protestation was organised to gully the government’s attraction to the issue.