7000 farmers of Sirsa benefited from cotton sowing scheme
Haryana government has increased the budget of the scheme under sowing of indigenous cotton. Farmers will get a benefit of Rs 4,000 per acre. Now farmers across the state, including Sirsa, sowing indigenous cotton will benefit. Earlier farmers used to get three thousand rupees. This will increase interest among farmers towards indigenous cotton.
About 7 thousand farmers of Sirsa, who are registered with the Agriculture Department, will get its direct benefit. These farmers get the benefits of the scheme. Sirsa is considered a hub in desi cotton because from the beginning, it produces the highest amount of cotton in the state. In view of this, the headquarters of the Central Research Center for Cotton has also been built here by the government. But in the last few years, farmers' interest in cotton has reduced due to low yield due to pink bollworm and other diseases.
Due to this, most of the farmers have stopped sowing cotton. Now they have started cultivating paddy instead of cotton. There was a time when Sirsa district was at the top in cotton production, but now there is negligible cultivation of cotton in the villages. At present, in such a situation in the district, the government wants to motivate the farmers towards cotton, so that the area under cotton can increase.
MLA Gokul Setia had raised the issue in the House
Congress MLA Gokul Setia from Sirsa constituency had raised the issue of decline in the area of indigenous cotton in the Haryana Assembly budget session. MLA Setia had demanded to increase the scope of the benefit scheme for sowing indigenous cotton. After the Haryana government raised the issue of indigenous cotton in the assembly budget session, a provision was made to increase the scope of this scheme.
Panchayat Minister had given the answer
On this, Agriculture and Panchayat Minister Shyam Singh Rana had replied in the House that an incentive amount of three thousand rupees is given on this. MLA Setia had demanded that our seed is very old. The crops are good in foreign countries, we should have similar good seeds here. Like sowing millet crop, bonus should be given to the farmers sowing desi cotton. New seeds should be developed.
Inclusion in Bhavantar will increase interest among farmers: DDA
In this matter, DDA Sukhbir Singh from the Agriculture Department says that there are about 7 thousand beneficiary farmers in Sirsa district, who are given three thousand rupees by the department for sowing desi cotton under the scheme. There is about 17 thousand acres of desi cotton. A request was made to the government by the department that this cotton crop is used commercially.
Therefore, this crop should be grown like millet sold under Bhavantar Yojana, so that the farmer can get the benefit of Bhavantar Yojana. Otherwise interest among farmers is decreasing. If the farmer gets lower prices in private then he can get the benefit of price variation. This will increase the area. The good thing is that the government has increased the amount given to farmers under the scheme by one thousand rupees.
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