Latest Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan News & Updates

Chandigarh, April 8 (IANS) Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Wednesday urged the Central government to send a high-level team to assess the damage caused to wheat and other Rabi crops by unseasonal heavy rainfall accompanied by hailstorms in the state.​ In a letter to Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the minister highlighted the severe impact of inclement weather on wheat crops. ​He said wheat sown on 35 lakh hectares had been expected …