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SAD demands Rs 20,000 per acre relief package for crisis hit potato farmers

Chandigarh, Dec 21 (UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded a relief package of Rs 20,000 per acre for distressed potato growers as well as immediate procurement of potatoes for state welfare schemes to save farmers from ruin.

In a statement here, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the government should give a relief package of Rs 20,000 per acre to potato growers who were experiencing huge losses for the second consecutive year. He said alongside this, potatoes could be procured for the mid day meal scheme and included in the aata daal scheme which would ensure a remunerative price to the crisis hit farmers. “Simultaneously the government should direct Markfed and Punjab Agro to procure potatoes as it had been doing in the past”.
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