Punjab farm activists protest, want sowing advanced

May 15 2020

Members of the BKU (Lakhowal) submitted a memorandum of demands to the Bathinda Deputy Commissioner. Among the demands included uninterrupted power supply to tubewells in fields during paddy cultivation season.

The farm union leaders also demanded that paddy cultivation must start from June 1 onwards and 10 hours of uninterrupted electricity supply every day from May 15 onwards.

Union’s president Dara Singh said, “Apart from Bathinda city, representatives of the union staged protests and submitted memorandum of demands to the SDMs of Rampura Phul, Maur and Talwandi Sabo blocks.”

Ramkaran Singh Rama, state general secretary of the union, said, “We demand that the state government must change the date of paddy cultivation from June 10 to June 1 on priority. It must also allow sowing of PUSA-44 paddy type. Besides this, MGNREGA workers should be deployed for paddy cultivation. The government must also announce MSP of basmati paddy, maize, pulses and vegetables, among others, and rates must be fixed as per the recommendations of the Swaminathan committee report.” — TNS


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Source: The Tribune