The Aman Sandesh Times
Chandigarh : Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann slammed the Leader of the opposition Partap Singh Bajwa for misleading the people with his ‘half-baked knowledge’.
“This is high time Bajwa must bid goodbye to politics as he is continuously chanting lies for hogging media limelight”, said the Chief Minister in a statement.
The Chief Minister said that Bajwa’s statement on PR 126 is completely irresponsible, baseless, irrational, and misleading.
He said that experts of Punjab Agricultural University has repeatedly emphasised that as compared to long-duration variety (Pusa 44), PR 126 saves 20-25 percent water.
Likewise, Bhagwant Singh Mann said that it has a lesser straw load (10%), provides 25-40 days more window period for residue management along with saving of about Rs. 5000 per acre of input costs thereby immensely benefitting the farmers.
The Chief Minister said that due to all these benefits, this variety has gained high popularity among the technology savy farmers of the state with expansion of area from 13.9 to 45.0 percent during last five years.
Rubbishing claims of Bajwa, he said that a meeting was also convened with the President of All India Rice Millers Association and its representatives on May 9,2024 at PAU, Camp office Mohali, where full satisfaction was expressed with the milling quality of PR 126 by the rice millers.
