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Sukhmeet Bhasin
Mansa, May 5
Vegetable growers in Punjab are facing a huge trouble in the wake of a Covid-induced lockdown.
Farmers of Bhainibagha village in Mansa district have cultivated capsicum on 800 acres, but are now unable to sell it. Traders from other states have stopped visiting their farms due to which their produce has started rotting. Left with no option, many farmers have started dumping their damaged produce in the fields or on roads.
Farmers Naib Singh and Satnam Singh say they have grown capsicum this year, but are now unable to sell it due to which the produce has started rotting.
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Lt Gen Raj Sujlana (Retd)
Two memorable defensive battles were fought south of Banihal Pass, amidst the rigours of the Pir Panjal mountains of Poonch and the undulating rough plains of Chhamb-Jaurian west of Munawar Tawi. The assaulting enemy numbered several times the men who manned the defences; however, they were met squarely with rare steadfastness, valour and dedication, inflicting crushing defeats on the enemy in both these encounters.
6 Sikh (‘Chhe’, as popularly known) occupied defences over a 13-km frontage on the heights above Poonch; two of these, Points 405 and 406, were of strategic importance, standing as sentinels. Loss of these would directly threaten Poonch town itself. Pakistan always prized this option, and on the night intervening December 3 and 4, it launched a heavy punch with two brigades (six battalions). Coincidently, one of these was 5th Frontier Force, originally the 53 Royal Sikhs! Two enemy battalions launched feint attacks, while one infiltra
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Ruchika M Khanna
Chandigarh, April 10
On day one of procurement on Saturday, Guru Nanak Dhaba at the otherwise bustling Khanna market, the largest grain mandi in Asia, wore a desolate look. There were no farmers at the mandi, only labourers, who had come all the way from Bihar to earn money during the wheat procurement season.
Software amended
The Food Department has amended the procurement software
The commission agents will come to know how much payment is being released to farmers who are linked to them
Worried, they said they were not sure of the process through which they would be paid their wages post direct benefit transfer (DBT) implementation. Vikas Kumar Yadav said: “I am to be paid Rs 6.06 per bag (that I fill and load) by the farmer and Rs 9.24 by the agency. Earlier, the arhtiya would give me the money but I don’t know who will pay me now.” Arvind Kumar, manager of the dhaba, did not foresee a good season. “There is much uncertainty. Farmers and arht
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Chill fails to dampen protest spirit
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December 16, 2020 01:17 IST
Farmers at Singhu border say they are used to worse, will not back down until their demands are met
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Protesters at the Singhu border in Delhi on Tuesday.
| Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
Farmers at Singhu border say they are used to worse, will not back down until their demands are met
Early morning temperature in the national capital on Tuesday dropped to a bone-chilling 4 degree Celsius, but the farmers protesting at the Singhu border were not just unperturbed by the dip in mercury but in fact their determination was at a peak.