90% tenant farmers do not get crop loans
90% tenant farmers do not get crop loans, crop loans from banks, tenant farmers. The absentee landlords, who are not cultivators and not eligible for loans, garner the maximum benefits.”
Though they are eligible to get up to Rs 1 lakh, their names are not in the revenue records
- 70-80 per cent of the loans disbursed by the banks to absentee landlords
- During 2011-12, the crop loan disbursed to tenant farmers was Rs 378 crore as against the total crop loan disbursement of Rs 36,451 crore as per the AP annual credit plan of the SLBC.
- In 2012 -13, Rs 221.66 crore, less than 0.5 per cent i.e., 0.44 % of the total crop disbursement of Rs 50,127 crore was given to tenant farmers.
- In 2013-14, it is less than half per cent of the targeted amount of Rs 49,989 crore.
Hyderabad: Tenant farmers in the State, who constitute nearly 80 per cent of the total cultivators, are facing hardships due to denial of crop loans and crop compensation.
Although the tenant farmers, who are eligible for crop loans from banks up to Rs 1 lakh under interest subvention scheme and zero per cent interest scheme of the State government and also for compensation of crop loss, were denied loans as their names were not included in revenue records, said Padala Bhoomanna, former Minister for Handlooms and Textiles.
Addressing the media here on Wednesday, he said, “75 per cent of the lands are cultivated by tenants and 90 per cent of the suicides are by tenant farmers.
The absentee landlords, who are not cultivators and not eligible for loans, garner the maximum benefits.”
As per the AP Rights in Land & Pattedar Books Act, 1971, and the subsequent rules issued through various GOs with the last one in 2008, the name of the actual cultivator has to be recorded in the revenue records but none of the landlords did that. As a result 80 per cent of the loans that should have gone to tenant farmers were being enjoyed by landlords, he said.
The crop loan disbursed to tenant farmers was only less than half per cent of the total crop loan amount of Rs 36,451 crore was disbursed to 68,89,189 farmers (loan accounts) during the year 2011-12 and Rs 50,127 crore to 70,45,329 farmers (loan accounts) during the year 2012-13 as per SLBC reports.
