Farmers Camp Chandor

Farmers from Chandor in one voice urged the HDFC Bank to either modify their loan schemes or come up with new schemes which they can avail as the present loan pattern of the bank is not applicable to farmers from Goa. At a farmers camp organized jointly by Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott and HDFC bank, the bank officer William Fernandes pointed out that the bank can provide agricultural loans only to farmers having minimum 5,000 square metres of land. The around 100 farmers present for the camp pointed out that by virtue of being tenants of the Communidade their holding was 1,000 square metres and hence they would not be eligible for the loans. The farmers suggested that the bank comes up with a loan facility for farmers having 1,000 square metres of land or with a loan...

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