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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 22: Basmati growers of Jammu province have called upon the state government to take up the issues concerning farmers with Agriculture Processing and Export Development Authority (APEDA) and demanded setting up of Basmati Export Development Foundation Centre in Jammu.
The Basmati growing farmers from different parts of region met here today to discuss the various problems and future prospects of exports of their produce.
They demanded establishment of the centre on the pattern of the one founded at Motipura near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh
During the discussion in the meeting, the President of RS Pura Rice Growers Association Choudhary Dev Raj said that nobody can exploit poor farmers on the issue of price hike adding that the inflated prices are totally a political problem and it can be solved only by maintaining a right balance between export and import by the Central government.
He alleged that the policies are always framed in a manner to give undue benefits to the capitalists.
Speaking on the occasion, President J&K Kissan Council Tajinder Singh Wazir said that lakhs of poor farmers’ livelihood is dependent upon Basmati growing which needs to be developed further by framing a concrete policy.
He demanded that provision should be made that under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, fifty percent exportable seed and timely availability of fertilizers and establishment of Basmati Mandi for better marketing of Basmati rice.
The delegates welcomed the government decision of constituting Kissan Development Board and making a farmer as Vice Chirman of the board.
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