The Punjab government has decided to increase the area under cultivation of oil seed crops with special emphasis on increasing production of Sunflower. To achieve this target, it today announced liberal subsidies for exhibition plots, agri- implements and weedicides.
Disclosing this here today, Punjab Agriculture Minister Mr. Sucha Singh Langah said that the State government would provide subsidy for agri- implements used in cultivation of Sunflower besides on weedicides being used for this purpose. He informed that it has decided to set up 80 exhibition plots measuring 5 hectares each throughout the State and the farmers would be provided subsidy of Rs.2500/-per hectare and Rs. 12,500/-for each exhibition plot of 5 hectares. He said that in the first phase it has been decided to set up these plots in Fatehgarh Sahib, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Patiala, SBS Nagar, Ludhiana, Tarn Taran, Kapurthala, SAS Nagar and Rupnagar districts.
He said that during the year 2011-12 the area under cultivation of Sunflower was expected to increase to 25,000 acres and the production to touch 44.5 thousand metric tones. In the previous year i.e. 2010-11, the area under cultivation of Sunflower was 14.4 thousand acres and production was 25.6 thousand metric tones.
He said that the State government was providing subsidy under ICOPAM scheme and the farmers could also avail it for groundnuts and mustard also.
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