Hindustan Times – Online

Chandigarh Congress Rajya Sabha member Partap Bajwa on Saturday wrote a letter to Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, pressing upon him to have a separate agricultural budget for Punjab. Bajwa added the Congress has always been the vanguard of social and economic change and ensuring a fairer, more just life for all. Tamil Nadu has already announced a separate agriculture budget for itself. “The Punjab government is in a unique position in bringing about the second green revolution in the state and we must not let this opportunity pass,” he said, adding, “A separate agricultural budget will allow greater stakeholder consultation between farmers, agriculturalists and allied industries with the government. We will have a ...

The New Indian Express – Online

The first exclusive budget for agriculture in Tamil Nadu aims at achieving food and nutritional security in the next 10 years and to ensure this has set three visionary goals. The first goal is to take steps to bring an additional area of 11.75 lakh hectares under the net area sown to increase the present cropped area from 60 percent to 75 percent. This will see fallow lands being turned into productive lands by augmenting water resources such as ponds, farm ponds, percolation ponds, check dams and borewells in the next ten years. Crops like millets, pulses, oil seeds, vegetables and fruits will be grown here to increase the net sown area to ...