The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday rubbished all reports regarding any sort of urea shortage in the State.
Badal, while interacting with the media persons on the sidelines of his Sangat Darshan program in lambi Assembly segment, said that the State had received far more urea as compared to the corresponding period of last year. “There is no need for getting panicky on this issue as there is hardly any scarcity of urea in the State…Regular monitoring is being done by the State Agriculture Department to ensure that farmers do not face any difficulty in this regard,” he said.
Earlier addressing the gathering, Badal exhorted the farmers to adopt crop diversification. “It would help in bailing them out from the current agrarian crisis by enhancing their income,” said Badal. AHe said that due to escalating costs of farming inputs and squeezing margins of profit, agriculture was no longer a profitable venture. “In such a scenario, the farmers must adopt allied farming activities like dairying, fishery, piggery, goatery, apiary, agro forestry and others to supplement their income,” he said.