Thane/ Mumbai: Over 20,000 farmers are marching from Thane to Mumbai, having the demand of state government's support on a number of issues including compensation for drought and loan waiver.

Reports suggested that the two-day march has begun at Thane on Wednesday at 10 am. Farmers will arrive Mumbai's Somaiyya Ground at 5 pm, where a rally is planned to be held. The march will end at Azad Maidan on Thursday, where farmers will stage an indefinite dharna till demands are met.

The march has been held by Lok Sangharsh Morcha and it is being led by water conservation activist Rajendra Singh and Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav, as news agency PTI reported.

Traffic jams are expected in Mumbai as the protesting farmers.

Worth mention here in March this year, nearly 50,000 farmers walked all the way from Nashik in north Maharashtra to Mumbai to demand loan waiver and execution of the Forest Rights Act, among other things.

"Farmers across Maharashtra are reeling under insensitive and anti-farmer policies of the state government and therefore we have no option but to strike the government with farmers' unity," general secretary of the Morcha, Pratibha Shinde, was quoted by Zee news at a press meet.