Says, leave wheat-paddy cycle and give strategically response to various allegations made by Centre
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, November 13-
Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhawan has called farmers to come forward to adopt crop diversification and said that they should leave wheat and paddy cycle and adopt vegetables & other alternative crops, besides to make a joint strategy to answer various allegations made by BJP led Union Government.
In a press statement issued here today,Sandhwan said that the farmers of the state should refrain from cultivation of wheat and paddy and earn handsome returns by cultivating various other crops such as oil seeds crops. He said that by adopting crop diversification, the farmers can get out of the wheat-paddy cycle on one hand and they can get rid of the restrictions deliberately imposed by the BJP government on the other. He said that the union government deliberately not converting milled rice from Punjab Shellers and not clearing the requisite space, due to which the farmers were facing hardships.