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Punjab being food bowl of India is a harbinger of green revolution in the country and is striving to transform agriculture from sustenance to profitable
and from localized to globalized. Agriculture contributes to about 29% of the States GDP and provides livelihood to nearly 65% of its population. Punjab
has been contributing about 50%-60% of wheat and about 35%-40% of rice procured by the Government of India for food Security of the country for the last
four decades. I congratulate the farmers for the record production of wheat in the current Rabi season. In Rabi 2014. the production of wheat jumped to
176 lac MT against which 119lac MT has been procured by the state. The free power supplied to the farmers at a cost of about Rs. 4778 crores have proved
vital in this regard. The state Government invested Rs, 36798 crore for procurement of wheat paddy in the State in the year 2013-14 and procurement of
wheat in the current financial year 2014-15 .To catalyze the process of improving the sustainability and viability of farming progressive Punjab Agriculture
Summit was held in the state wherein Agriculture Technologies were showcased and issues related to farmers and farming were debated .A Group of Experts
has been constituted to suggest the ways and means to ameliorate the economic distress of farmers . The State Government has provided Rs. 186 crores to
SUGARFED to clear the arreas of Cane growers in the state. The State Government is committed to enable the SUGARFED to make full payment to Cane growers
and from localized to globalized. Agriculture contributes to about 29% of the States GDP and provides livelihood to nearly 65% of its population. Punjab
has been contributing about 50%-60% of wheat and about 35%-40% of rice procured by the Government of India for food Security of the country for the last
four decades. I congratulate the farmers for the record production of wheat in the current Rabi season. In Rabi 2014. the production of wheat jumped to
176 lac MT against which 119lac MT has been procured by the state. The free power supplied to the farmers at a cost of about Rs. 4778 crores have proved
vital in this regard. The state Government invested Rs, 36798 crore for procurement of wheat paddy in the State in the year 2013-14 and procurement of
wheat in the current financial year 2014-15 .To catalyze the process of improving the sustainability and viability of farming progressive Punjab Agriculture
Summit was held in the state wherein Agriculture Technologies were showcased and issues related to farmers and farming were debated .A Group of Experts
has been constituted to suggest the ways and means to ameliorate the economic distress of farmers . The State Government has provided Rs. 186 crores to
SUGARFED to clear the arreas of Cane growers in the state. The State Government is committed to enable the SUGARFED to make full payment to Cane growers
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