Central team visits flood-hit areas

Farmers say it is impossible to repay loans

A team of officers from the Union government toured North Karnataka districts on Sunday, to assess the loss caused by floods in the Krishna basin in July this year. In Dharwad, the team met farmers in Alnavar and Navalgund who had lost their crops to floods. The farmers complained that heavy rain had destroyed their crops and made it impossible for them to repay their loans. Maize, coconut, arecanut, green gram, black gram and banana were destroyed, they said and urged the team to compensate their loss. Some farmers showed the team members the damaged crops that they had kept in their houses.