This year, Kharif cultivation has been affected due to deficit in rain in Lakhanpur block.
In this connection, a meeting was held on Friday demanding declaration of Lakhanpur block as fully drought-hit.
While Benudhar Bhoi presided over the meeting the issues discussed were quantifying the losses incurred by the farmers by both the Centre and the State Government agencies, disbursement of crop insurance, input subsidy and providing different assistances on agriculture.
Various farmers representatives who joined the meet threatened to take the insensitivity of the Government to the village level.
It was also resolved to unite all farmers of 33 panchayats to achieve the goals. The farmers also threatened to boycott the coming Panchayat polls if their demand was not met. The farmers representatives of different panchayats who attended the meet were Lingaraj Badhei, Bhonath Badhei, Tileswar Pradhan, Bidyadhar Majhi, Tikeswar Pradhan, Okil Biswal, Parsuram Padhan, Arjun Chhatria, Narottam Pradhan and Makardhwaj Padhan.