Bittu raises issues of Punjab agriculture at ICAR meet
Thursday, 19/02/2015
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Ludhiana: Member of Parliament from Ludhiana and member of board of Indian Council of Agriculture Research Society (ICAR Society), under Ministry of Agriculture raised an issues related to Agriculture in Punjab during a meeting held at New Delhi on Wednesday.
Representing Punjab in the meeting Bittu brought the issue of decreasing level of ground water, crops diversification and low income of farmers in the notice of union agriculture minister, officials of department and agriculture experts present in the meeting.
Advocating the 100 per cent subsidy of drip irrigation to farmers Bittu said that the level of ground water in Punjab is decreasing every year and the 56 zones in state have been declared black zones. The government should take serious note of it and fixed the Minimum Sale Price (MSP) of crops by keeping the present situation of farmers in mind.
While talking over the crops diversification Bittu said that the farmers wanted to adopts the farming of sugarcane but the sugar mills in Punjab are closed and the farmers have no option to sow wheat and other traditional crops.
Bittu, also asked the Published and writers to acknowledge the innovation of Punjab farmers so that the young generation should also adopts the agriculture business of their families.
