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CM says Punjab ready for crop diversification, seeks assured remunerative prices to farmers

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Ludhiana: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that the state is fully ready to adopt crop diversification but the Central Government must provide an assured mechanism to give remunerative prices for these crops.

“The Centre must take this step for ensuring that the state’s farmers shift from water guzzling crops to less water consuming crops,” said the Chief Minister while addressing a gathering after inaugurating the Kisan Mela at Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, and Pashu Palan Mela at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University.

The Chief Minister said that instead of paddy, the state’s farmer is ready to sow sunflower, maize, and pulses. “But for that, they must get an adequate and assured price. This will help in checking the depleting water table in the State on one hand and making agriculture a profitable venture on the other,” said Mann adding that this is the need of hour to avert water crisis in the state.

He said that the state’s farmers are really worried about the depleting water table and environment pollution due to paddy straw burning. However, they are not able to come out of rut of wheat-paddy cycle as they don’t want to lose assured price mechanism associated with it, pointed Mann while adding that Punjab is blessed with fertile land where anything can germinate but efforts must be made to save this fertile land and its water.

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