Chandigarh, June 2 (IANS) In one of the crucial agricultural reforms to benefit 13 lakh farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday announced the Kisan Credit Card (KCC), transforming a 26-year-old framework that had left cultivators dependent on inadequate institutional credit and vulnerable to private moneylenders. The revamped policy significantly raises crop-wise credit limits in line with actual cultivation costs, lowers interest burdens, expands loan eligibility to high-value c…
Latest Sugarcane Growers News & Updates
Chandigarh, Jan 20 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Tuesday, approved a direct subsidy of Rs 68.50 per quintal out of the fixed state agreed price (SAP) for sugarcane growers. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, which also delivered a series of approvals spanning healthcare reform, public fitness initiatives and urban governance. A spokesperson for the Chief Minister’s Office said the subsidy of Rs 68.50 per quintal out of the fixed …