The Jharsuguda District Congress Committee and members of its farmer cell held demonstration before the Collectorate here on Tuesday for declaring the district as pest and drought affected.
They submitted a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Their demands included full compensation to the farmers of all the five blocks affected by pest attack, writing off loans to the farmers, renovation and repair of lift irrigation points, supply of oil and pulses seed for the coming Rabi season free of cost and re-assessment of crop loss.
Former Minister Kishore Chandra Patel,Town Congress president Bharat Awasthi, District Congress general secretaries Siddharth Sarkar, Raghunandan Padhi, Farmer Cell chairman Jagannath Jena and Khet Majdoor Congress Comitee state resident Girish Ranjan Panda among others were present.