Bhatinda (Punjab), Feb 15: Cold wave conditions in Punjab have damaged most of the potato crop causing huge losses to farmers.
Potato producers of Bhatinda say that they have lost at least 70 per cent of their crop yield to severe cold and frost formation.
"With temperatures going down to minus two to three degrees in Punjab this year and due to the fog especially in our district, we are facing huge losses. The crops that we sowed in November are destroyed upto nearly 70 per cent," said Harcharan Singh, a farmer.
New Delhi, Feb. 15: The fourth India-UK Defence Industry Symposium will begin here today to promote co-operation between Indian and UK defence production companies.
Firozpur, Feb 13 : Farmers in Punjab deny that they are facing economic crisis due to shortfall in production of agricultural crops.
Debunking a 'Punjabi Durbar' broadcast, suggesting that farmers are indebted and take recourse to suicide, farmers living along India-Pakistan border of the state say that they are prosperous and their prosperity can be judged by merely witnessing the number of tube-wells, tractors in farms and their living standards.
Ignoring the fact that Punjab is known as the granary of India, Pakistan Radio’s 'Punjabi Durbar' programme continues to broadcast the view that Sikh farmers are facing a plethora of hardships.
Cold wave conditions in Punjab have damaged most of the potato crop causing huge losses to farmers.
New Delhi, Feb.
