Loan waiver can give relief only to some extent: Nitin Gadkari

NAGPUR: A loan waiver can give relief to some extent but it cannot address the issue of farmer suicides in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said. He said it's difficult to check farmer suicides in the region unless 50 per cent of its land is irrigated.

Therefore, it's important to improve the irrigation potential to address the issue effectively, the Nagpur MP said. Gadkari said leading milk supplier Mother Dairy is going to set up 40 centres in Vidarbha and the company will procure milk from the farmers in the region. "This will benefit around 2.5 to 3 lakh farmers," he said.