Leveraging digital platforms for agricultural advancement, the Sugarcane Development Council has successfully trained over 9 lakh sugarcane farmers through Facebook Live sessions.
The Punjab government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has cleared the protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri borders near Haryana and farmers' leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who was on fast-unto-death, has also broken his fast.
The focus of the Narendra Modi-led Central government is on increasing productivity of pulses, cereals and vegetables to produce more food for improving the nutritional level of the population as well nurturing India's ambition to become the food basket of the world, according to a senior Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare official.
The potato growers in the district have suffered major losses due to yield of deformed potatoes, which are unsuitable for sale or human consumption.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, on Thursday, accused the ruling BJP and the AAP of betraying the farmers and asserted that the farmers of the country will never forgive these “anti-farmer” parties.
Chandumajra and Grewal also took objection to Rajewal's statement that only SAD legislators and MPs should have gone to protest in Delhi.
Pointing out that many farmers had died in these protests, the CM said it was high time the Central Government realised its blunder and withdrew the legislation in the interest of the farmers and the nation.
In his address after laying the foundation stone of government college at Mukhliana village in the Chabbewal assembly constituency at a cost of Rs 13.44 crore, he said the state where its entire people stood like a rock with them in favour of their legitimate issues, should desist from holding protests across the state against these "black" farm laws passed by the BJP-led Central government.
"The rallies not only divert people from the 'morcha', but also divides the people along political lines and could threaten the morcha of farmers against the three agriculture laws,"
"A peaceful protest will continue here at Karnal until the government takes action against the IAS officer. However, the administration will be allowed to function for daily services, so that the people are not affected,"
