As farmers in Punjab, India’s key grain producing State, keep crop-diversification at bay and continue with the paddy-wheat crop cycle, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday asked the Centre to provide an assured mechanism to give remunerative prices for the alternate crops.
Mr. Mann said Punjab is ready to adopt crop diversification but the Centre must provide assured mechanism to give remunerative prices for these crops. “The Centre must take this step for ensuring that farmers of the State shift from water guzzling crops to less water consuming crops,” he said.
He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating the ‘Kisan Mela’ (farmers’ fair) at Punjab Agriculture University in Ludhiana.
