Speaking to ANI, he said "We have placed our demands that the machinery should be given at subsidized rates and sold to the cooperative sector. The first fire of the stubble harms the farmers and then others. The government is not providing a positive solution. When we do paddy harvesting an
Farmers in India have sown rabi crops across 620.62 lakh hectares as of Friday, an increase of 4.4 per cent year-on-year from the previous cropping season.
The government has sufficient food grain stocks under the central pool to meet the requirement of the country's food security program, additional allocation from PMGKAY, and other welfare schemes.
Chandigarh [India], Nov 20 (ANI): The sowing of wheat in Punjab has been completed in an area of 26.20 lakh hectares, which is 77 per cent of the total area to be sown under wheat, said Jasbir Singh Bains, Director, Agriculture, in a statement.