Fed up with the goverment apathy towards their demands, potato farmers today dumped their crop on the roads in Jalandhar. A potato glut had forced the farmers to seek government help. They were protesting againstthe fall in crop’s price to as low as Re 1 per kg.
While the Parkash Singh Badal government recently announced announced freight subsidy for transportation of potato crop in domestic as well as export markets, the growers turned down the offer. The government had offered freight subsidy of 0.50 paise per kg for marketing of potatoes within country and Rs 1.5 per kg for export.
However, farmers were demanding that the government must provide freightsubsidy of Re 1 per kg on marketing of old crop in domestic market and Rs 2 per kg for export
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