Farmers in flood-hit Punjab prop up each other with free seeds
Many farmers have come up with idea of setting up paddy nurseries to give seeds for retransplantation to the flood-affected growers in Punjab
Farmers in flood-hit Punjab prop up each other with free seeds
Chandigarh: Their own crops damaged in floods, several farmers in Punjab are now propping up their fellows, giving them free seeds to sow in their fields. Farmer Baldev Singh, whose own paddy crop was ruined in the flood in the Shahkot area of Jalandhar district, is offering seeds of short-duration PR 126 variety to the flood-affected growers free of charge.
“I have 70-80 quintals of PR 126 variety of paddy seeds with me which I am offering free of cost to flood-hit farmers,” Baldev Singh from Shahkot’s Gatti Raipur village told media.
“We know the pain of farmers and it is very difficult to spend again on buying seeds for resowing,” said the farmer who is now getting calls from several growers from Fazilka and Hoshiarpur and also nearby areas for seeds.
Baldev Singh lost his paddy crop grown over 50-60 acres in the floods that swept the state last week.
Shahkot area in Jalandhar was one of the worst affected areas in the state. The matter there was worsened after a 350-feet-wide breach in an earthen embankment along the Sutlej river in Lohia block’s Mandala Chhanna area let the river water in.
The breach was later plugged with the help of volunteers led by Rajya Sabha MP Balbir Singh Seechewal.
Many farmers like Baldev Singh, as also farmer bodies, have come up with the idea of setting up paddy nurseries to give seeds for retransplantation to the flood-affected growers in Punjab.
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