Haryana CM orders special girdawari for crop loss

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar ordered a special girdawari (revenue survey) today to assess crop loss caused by fire due to high-velocity winds.

Last week, the state police honoured six personnel for saving the wheat crop of a farmer from fire by dousing the flames with tree branches in Fatehabad district.

While addressing farmers and dealers at a function here, Khattar said the state government is also working on different alternatives to increase the prescribed limit for procurement of mustard and bajra.

The chief minister congratulated farmers for a bumper wheat production in the state.

In the previous season, about 74 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was procured while this season, 65 lakh metric tonnes of wheat has already been procured and the procurement process would continue for ten more days, he said in an official statement released here.

Talking about mustard procurement, Khattar said the central government procured 25 per cent of the total production for maintenance of price, but after achieving the target of 2.7 lakh metric tonnes in the state, additional one lakh metric tonnes of mustard was procured through Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited (Hafed).

Oil from mustard procured through Hafed would be made available at a cost of Rs 20 per litre for BPL families through public distribution system.