New Delhi, Dec. 26 :    New Delhi, Dec. 26:  Although the BJP has welcomed the Prime Minister's Antyodaya food scheme for the poor - saying it has not come a day too late - the party is worried about the adverse impact of the agriculture crisis on its own prospects and the NDA government's inability to come up with coherent solutions. The two-day executive called by the party's Kisan Morcha in Sona (Haryana) from today is expected to voice its anxieties on these scores as well as offer suggestions to the government. 'Farmers' issue is the most important since they form the backbone of the economy,' stated Bihar MP Ram Tahal Choudhury and demanded the government as well as the BJP should articulate their agriculture policy 'more clearly'. Although the government was let off lightly in the winter session of Parliament since the agriculture issue got overshadowed by Ayodhya, BJP sources said MPs had raised the problems of farmers in most of the parliamentary party meetings held twice a week during the sitting. Sources admitted neither Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee nor home minister L.K. Advani, who intervened in these meetings, could say anything 'convincing' on the matter. Uttar Pradesh MP Ram Nagina Mishra called for an immediate package to redress the lot of small farmers in his state, similar to the one the Centre gave to Punjab and Haryana after the BJP's allies, the Akali Dal and Indian National Lok Dal, raised a furore. 'Why is Uttar Pradesh being discriminated against? The bigger farmers can afford to hold on to their stocks till the market prices look good, but it is the small farm- ers who suffer. They have no storage facilities and are forced to sell their crops at abysmally low prices. Despite the promises, the government is just not able to buy the quantities required for the farmers' survival,' said Mishra. Mishra sounded sceptical about a new scheme announced by the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Rajnath Singh, waiving arrears owed by sugarcane farmers in the form of bank loans or various taxes unless and until they were paid their own dues from government owned sugar mills. 'It is a tedious process, as the scheme stipulates that the papers will have to be in order and only then can they avail of the facility. In the meantime, the interest on the debts the farmers owe will keep mounting, so they are net losers in the end,' argued the MP from Padrauna. Another MP from Bihar pointed out that the BJP's ambivalence on the farmers' issue highlighted its traditional pro-traders' bias. 'The traders are having a field day. They are benefiting from the subsidy slash because the inputs the farmers need for their survival like diesel, seeds, fertilisers and tractors cost much more now,' he said. It is the cow belt MPs who are most apprehensive about the farmers' build-up by the Opposition. The BJP's main opponents in UP and Bihar - the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) - have been quick to seize the initiative.