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Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries, Ravi Rati­ram, says the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion took out a loan for $200 mil­lion “just be­fore elec­tion” to build ac­cess roads for farm­ers across the coun­try. How­ev­er, he said sev­er­al of the roads which were built were in places where there are no farm­ers.

Rati­ram made the rev­e­la­tion as he held a farm­ers’ meet­ing on Wednes­day af­ter­noon in Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la along with MP for the area Shiv­an­na Sam.