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Punjab is expecting a bumper output of paddy crop this year, despite floods during the kharif season 2023-24. The state, known as the food bowl of the country, is expecting paddy output to cross 205 lakh metric tonnes, with an average yield going up by more than four quintal per hectare compared to last year.
Currently, Punjab meets only a fraction, around 20 to 25%, of its required 5 lakh tonnes of edible oil, leaving a substantial gap in meeting its own needs.
This year, 36,614 farm fires were recorded, which is 27% less than last year, when 49,992 cases were recorded.
On November 26, 2020, thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana had marched towards Delhi borders against the Centre’s agri-marketing laws.
JALANDHAR: After ridiculing and then staying silent over Punjab getting top positions in the performance grading index (PGI) released by the Union edu.