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A welcome move to save the farming community. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot If one is a law-abiding farmer, fearing red entries and registration of the cases for stubble burning, one may have to shell about Rs 1700 per acre, Rs 700 paid to the chopper operators and about Rs 900 to 1000 to paddy baler operators for making the bales of the paddy. Apart from it, one may have to face harassment or delays of sowing next crop and preparing the tough fields. There were strict messages to the farmers till the last week of October but conditioned with the whispers that if you want to burn the paddy stubble, burn it after the satellite monitoring the farm fire incidents leaves the land, ie,5 PM. “The operators of the paddy balers demand Rs 1000 per acre for making stubble bal...

Raaghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Jagjeet Singh Dallewal,state president of Bharti Kisan Union Sidhupur-Ekta alleged that the moisture meters to find out the moisture content in paddy are being allegedly misused. ‘I visited a grain market in Bhagtan Wali Mandi in Amritsar district and found out that the moisture meters used by different persons ,ie, procurement agencies, traders ,millers and market committee had a lot of variation in their readings. This is an apparent loot of the farmers and it would not be tolerated by us.I met many farmers and the moisture content in their paddy was between 15 to 17 which was shown much higher. When we intervened, the produce was decided to be proccured,but later on the farmers told us that the vested interests persons allegedly threatened that farm...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Dr Kulwant Singh, chief agriculture officer Faridkot has said that the farmers can avail a subsidy upto Rs 2000 per quintal on the purchase of the seeds of certified varieties of wheat as per the scheme of the government “National food security and Nutrition Mission”.“The farmers can apply on the website of the government for the subsidised seed of the wheat crop.The farmers can log in on agrimachinerypb.com portala to avail the subsidy on the certified seeds of wheat.The farmers can maxxium avail the subsidy upto one hectare only and it would be at the spot discount to the farmers where they purchase the seeds,” informed Dr Kulwant Singh,CAO Faridkot."There is a target of making available seeds of subsiudised wheat of about 1980 quintal in the district,...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot month, farmers are waiting at the grain markets to sell their produce allegedly to higher moisture content.The three days off is likely to lead to a very heavy glut in the grain market.If the grain market is closed by the ahartias for three days, it is allegedly an unwelcome move beecause, the farmers who have already unloaded their produce at the grain markets, may have to wait for many days due to the three days off in the grain market.As the agriculture harvest can not be delayed much due to many causes, the farmers have to harvest and carry their produce to the market.Even the farmers and the labour work till the Diwali Day afternoon,having an off only in the evening in such a busy schedule.

Raghbir Singh Brar  Faridkot  Under the instructions of DC Faridkot, Punamdeep kaur,the concerned officials of the food supply and market committee Kotkapura intercepted about four trollies loads of paddy being unloaded and stocked to two rice mills of the district, located in village Hari Naon. The sources said that the the one trolly load of paddy allegedly transpoted from Rajasthan was found being unloaded while three other trollies were waiting in queue. The DC Faridkot has ordered an inquiry into the matter and directed the police to register an FIR this regard. The district administration has further ordered the cancellation of thelicences  two rice mills accused of having been trying to indulge this malpractice.  ZIt is pertinent to mention that...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot  Faridkot SSP Dr Pragya Jain on Friday elaborated the achievements of Faridkot police where it has done alledly a remarkable work to eradicate the menace of drus by arresting about 820 accused under NDPS act by registering about 574 FIRs this regarding.  Pragya Jain,the SSP Faridkot presented it's report card counting all the achievements of district police since March to September this year during a demolition drive of an illegal construction by one Krishan Singh alias Kishi,under police station Sadak on Friday. The Faridkot police led by SSP Dr Pragya Jain along with other officials of police and civil administration demolished the allegedly illegal construction of the accused,who has,as per the police versions,9 cases registered againt him. ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot October 5,2025 Jal Jivan Bachao Morcha(JJBM) on Sunday expressed it serious concern on the finding of the sub soil drinking water reports of Faridkot in which Uranium and  Magnesium have been found much above the permissible limits in drinking water. The water supply and sanitation department Faridkot had allegedly taken five samples from the water from the equal number of hand pumps from the district in June. The testing report allegedly by the Regional Advance Water Testing laboratory SAS Nagar are stunning,particularly about the much higher contamination by Uranium. The permissible limit of Uranium in drinking water is only 30 microgram per litre while in Faridkot, it has been tested to be 31.92,112.25,69.17,38.92 respectively in the f...

*3773 metric tons of paddy has been procured till Wednesday evening-DC Farmers were also appealed not to burn stubble. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Deputy Commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur on Thursday said that the government has fixed the moisture content of paddy for procurement at 17 percent and farmers should bring only dry paddy to the markets for simultaneous procurement of their produce. The Deputy Commissioner has instructed the officials to make the farmers as much aware as possible in this regard so that they do not face any problem while selling their crops in the markets. She said that till last evening, 4179 metric tonnes of paddy arrived in the district markets, out of which 3773 metric tonnes has been purchased. Of the paddy purchased by yesterday evenin...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Punjab government has learnt to have released Rs 4 lakh to the family of Panna Lal,a mason who had died of an accident during his work about four years ago.He was registered with the labour departments Punjab and despite competing all the formalities, his widow was unable to get the amount she deserved.The wife of the deceased,Gogi had been running from pillar to post to get this ex gratia life cover for about four years.Thepunjabexpress.com has also carried a detailed story on it on September 11.Gagandeep,the son of law of Gogi said that the Rs 4 lakh has been credited to the account to the wife of the deceased on October 16.Kultar Singh Sandhwan speaker Punjab sabha visited our house today this regard,Gagandeep said.

Underlining that the paddy procurement is going on smoothly in the district, Deputy Commissioner Faridkot Punamdeep Kaur has said that most of the dry produce arrived in the grain markets of the district has been purchased by the government agencies."There was the total arrival of paddy about 282 MT out of which about 169 MT has been procured by the procurement agencies.Pungrain has been very much ahead of the other procurement agencies by purchasing 107 MT of paddy.The rest of the 56 MT of paddy has been purchased by other procurement agencies includinga marginal.puchase of 16 MT by private traders,"The DC has said in a press note issued to the media today.The DC appealed to all the farmers to bring only dry produce,within a limit of 17 percent moisture content so that the paddy procureme...