Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said in the Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday that a compensation policy is already in place for high-tension power lines passing through farmers' fields.
He made these remarks when Australian High Commissioner Philip Green paid a courtesy call on him at Krishi Bhawan in New Delhi on Thursday.
Ahead of the Assembly polls in Maharashtra, Congress said on Wednesday that the soybean and cotton farmers have been left to fend for themselves under the Mahayuti government in the state.
"Foodgrain production witnessed a record increase due to good production of rice, jowar, and maize," an official statement said.
He said that the government has become "a U-turn expert".
Unseasonal showers, stormy weather with thunder, lightning and winds, coupled with hail lashed several parts of Maharashtra since midnight, inundating many low-lying areas and severely damaging standing crops in many areas, officials said here on Tuesday.
The Bengal workers are part of the protest organised by a group of 20-25 rights bodies from all over India as part of 100-day protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, starting 13 February.
Narendra Modi was addressing a post-Budget webinar on Agriculture and Cooperatives, the second in the series of 12 post-Budget webinars.
The exhibition will be held in Prayagraj on February 24-25, Varanasi on February 25-26, and Saharanpur on March 14-17.
Far from doing anything to double the income of farmers, the SAD chief lamented that the government has not ensured government procurement for all food grains on minimum support price (MSP).
