Merchants make hay while paddy farmers toil for survival
By Shirajiv Sirimane
While the paddy farmers toil hard to produce a kilo of paddy the
merchants earn 90 percent of profits with the least effort, said the
Co-Secretary, Movement for National Land and Agrarian Reform, Sarath
Fernando. The government provides interest free loans for merchants
purchasing paddy and farmers have to take loans at the rate of two
percent.
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