Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said farmers should be given 50 per cent profit over and above the cost of production.
Addressing farmers at his residence here, Hooda said that the Working Group Constituted by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, under his Chairmanship, had submitted recommendations to the Central Government. The Working Group had suggested that to ensure sustainable income to the farmers, they should be given 50 per cent profit over and above the cost of Production.
He announced that a massive rally to be attended by about 20 lakh people would be held in November and from there he would raise his voice to support those farmers of Haryana and Punjab who are being uprooted from Gujarat. Hooda said that the State Government has decided to give highest ever sugarcane prices to the farmers. Member of Parliament Deepender Hooda said that the ideology of the Congress Party was to give strength to the farmers and poor as they both could further strengthen the nation.