Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today appealed to farm scientists, academicians and agriculturalists to jointly play a proactive role in overhauling "non-remunerative and unproductive" agricultural policies to bail out "depressed" peasantry.
Addressing the agriculture experts and scientists who were honoured by the state government for their contribution to the field, the Chief Minister asked them to come forward and help the state and Union government.
Badal claimed that over 1 lakh farmers have left farming in the state during the last one decade and if this trend was not halted it could lead the country into "severe law and order problem" besides jeopardising the national food security.
Showing deep concern over the saturation in agriculture production, the Chief Minister said that this situation could only be averted with the zealous contribution of the scientists as they pioneered the nation to pull out from the food scarcity to make it surplus in food grain production.
On the occasion, Financial Commissioner Development Punjab Suresh Kumar said the state government honoured 51 eminent scientists and experts in different fields of agriculture development and research.
He said over 20,000 farmers have visited the exhibition during the summit till today.
