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Punjab CM emphasises to boost crop diversification programme

Bassi Pathana (Fatehgarh Sahib) Nov 17 (UNI) Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday emphasised the need to bring synergy among the departments of Cooperation and Animal Husbandry & Dairy Development to boost the crop diversification programme across the state.
Addressing a public gathering after laying the foundation stone of the Verka Mega Dairy plant here, the Chief Minister exhorted the farmers to come out of the rut of wheat-paddy cycle and shift to dairying as allied farming. He said that with the ever increasing production of milk, more such milk plants would be required across the state to give further impetus to dairy development, thereby helping the farmers who were facing acute agrarian crisis owing to low returns due to nearly stagnated Minimum Support Prices (MSP) and ever increasing costs of inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides etc.
Lambasting the anti-farmer organisations and other political parties which have unleashed false propaganda against the government over procurement of paddy in the state, Capt Amarinder pointed out that out of 160 lakh metric tonnes of paddy procured till date, 157 lakh metric tonnes had already been lifted and payments had been made to the farmers. The remaining paddy having high moisture content over and above the prescribed limit would also be soon lifted by the procurement agencies.
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