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Title: Punjab’s first agriculture policy by mid-December
Source:The Hindu Business Line
Date:26 November 2012
The Punjab Government is likely to roll out the state’s first agriculture policy that is aimed to make the farming profession economically viable by suggesting measures to raise farmers’ dwindling income and promote crop diversification. The draft of the agriculture policy is ready and it has been circulated among experts of different fields to elicit their views and opinions so as to incorporate them in the policy. The focus of the first agriculture policy for the state will be to recommend ways on how to improve farmers’ income especially small and marginal ones who have small landholdings.


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