paddy farmers
AHMEDABAD: Despite labour shortage , Punjab is expected to sustain paddy growing say agri economist. It is estimated that an area of around 27 lakh hectare will be put under paddy this season which is a major kharif crop of the state, Punjab Agricultural University, department of Economics and Sociology head, Dr M.S. Sidhu, said that the farmers, especially in the kharif season, largely depend upon the migratory labour hailing from states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. "To cope with the labour shortage, several steps at the level of government and the university have been taken.
The University has held programmes on the generation and the popularization of mechanized transplanting of paddy, organizing trainings to farmers on the technique of raising mat type paddy nursery, and the use of paddy transplanters. The government has launched programmes of making available subsidies, implementing law to discourage early transplanting of paddy, etc,"he said. Dr. Sidhu added that the legal steps to ban the transplanting of paddy before June 10 have been followed by farmers and that it has generated a favourable impact in minimizing the rate of underground water table depletion, especially in the central Punjab.
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