Ravikant Tupkar slams Maha Govt over Rs 5,000 aid to farmers, demands Rs 1 lakh per hectare

Buldhana, Oct 15 (UNI) Farmer leader Ravikant Tupkar on Thursday strongly criticised the Maharashtra government's decision to provide Rs 5,000 in financial assistance to drought-hit farmers before Diwali, calling it a cruel joke and demanding compensation of Rs 1 lakh per hectare. Tupkar said farmers incur expenses of nearly Rs 1 lakh per hectare on cultivation, making the government's proposed assistance grossly inadequate. He warned that farmers would launch a massive agitation across the state if the government failed to provide adequate compensation for crop losses. Rejecting the Rs 5,000 assistance, Tupkar questioned whether the government expected farmers to manage…