First meeting by Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal with ‘Kisan Mitra’ through video conferencing

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Cultivation of Bastmati and Cotton in Punjab: Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal addressed the farmer friends through video conferencing. This was Dhaliwal’s first meeting after the appointment of Kisan Mitra. He said that under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab government is making great efforts to make the state ‘Rangala Punjab’ and prosperity of agriculture is very important to make Punjab Rangala.

He said that at present, to make agriculture prosperous, it has become mandatory to increase the area under alternate crops. He urged the farmer friends to encourage more and more farmers to grow diversified crops like Narma and Basmati instead of paddy.

Dhaliwal said that farmer friends should play their important role to plant soft crops in maximum area. He said that it is the main duty of farmer friends to take more and more farmers towards crop diversification to get them out of the cycle of wheat and paddy. On this occasion, the agriculture minister also expressed concern over the deepening level of underground water.

The Punjab Agriculture Minister said that Kisan Mitra should continuously educate the farmers by providing information as per the decision taken by the government about planting alternative crops like paddy and basmati. He assured the farmer friends that the officials/staff of the Agriculture Department would continue to help them in organizing regular training programs and camps from time to time. Prior to this, appropriate training has also been given to farmer friends so that farmers can be encouraged to plant alternative crops.

He said that higher officials will hold a meeting with the farmer friends every Monday and block level and district development agriculture officers will also be present in this meeting. The Agriculture Minister said that Kisan Mitra should sensitize the farmers in taking proper decisions regarding the use of agricultural inputs like pesticides, fertilizers etc. Apart from this, the farmers should also be made aware to prevent the sowing of sathi mongoi in the Narma belt because the whitefly increases by sowing mongoi in the fields around Narma. Farmers may suffer due to whitefly attack.

It is certain that an app has been created to read the progress report of Kisan Mitra in which Kisan Mitra will give the progress of the works done daily by filling the data. Their work will be reviewed every week. It should also be mentioned here that the Punjab government will give an honorarium of Rs. 5000 to Kisan Mitra. Dhaliwal also announced that he would personally visit the farmer friends and encourage the farmers who are doing good work. He said that it is the duty of all of us to make our important contribution in making Punjab prosperous.

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