Joint Director of The Agriculture department had a meeting with Environment Lover Sant Seechewal
Sant Seechewal stressed on to encourage joint farming
Profit of subsidies for common farmers
Sultanpur Lodhi, 18th July
In order to raise the farmers
income and to encourage the farmers for the agriculture connected professions
the Joint Director of the Agriculture Department Development and Education Dr.
Gurwinder Singh Khalsa had a special meeting with Environment Lover Sant Balbir
Singh Seechewal today. In this meeting with Dr. Gurwinder Singh Khalsa, Sant
Seechewal suggested that in Punjab, joint agriculture should be encouraged and
the government should grant subsidized and low rate loans to the farmers and
those should be deposited directly to their accounts. He said that the benefit
of the subsidies being given by the government is not reaching the common
farmers. Sant Seechewal said that with the joint agriculture the burden of the
expenses will be less and brotherhood among them will increase. He said that we
are ready to provide every type of cooperation to strengthen the sources of
increasing the income of the farmers.
The Joint Director of the
agriculture department Dr. Gurwinder Singh Khalsa apprised Sant Seechewal with
the government schemes Aatma, Farmer Producer Organization and Self-Help Group
etc being run for the farmers. He asked Sant Seechewal's cooperation to get positive
results of the schemes and to make the farmers aware of the schemes.
He said that since 1991, with the
cooperation of farmers, karsewa of the paths, karsewa of the Holy Kali Bein,
karsewa strengthening the bundh during floods and other historic tasks done
till now have changed the picture and destiny of the area. Burden on the
pockets of the farmers of the dozens of villages has lessen with the use of
treated contaminated waters for the crops. More than one lac acres of land of
the farmers has become free of sem(Drought) and floods since two decades. In
the field of Environment Sant Seechewal Ji has risen honorable guide and savior
of the nature in the country and abroad. On this occasion he asked the farmers
to plant herbal plants around their fields and motors. The farmers of Punjab
should be inspired to grow maize, sugarcane fruit gardens and organic
vegetables and they should get proper rates for their crops.
Sant Seechewal told that the karsewa of the
Holy Kali Bein in fact has been helpful in saving the agriculture. He said due
to the continued flow of Bein, the crops have started growing in about one lac
acres of land in the area of Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala districts. Due to sem in
the lands of the villages around the Bein in Hoshiarpur no crop was growing.
With the cleaning of the Bein sem was finished and the crops started growing.
Same way in the area of Kapurthala due to non-availability of water stage of
draught had become. As per government records the ground water level has come
up with the cleaning of the Bein. Contaminated waters of the villages and the
cities after treating with the Seechewal Model is being used for agriculture
and that has resulted in saving fertilizer and the ground water for the
farmers.
The agriculture officer also saw
that pond at village Seechewal whose treated water was being utilized for
agriculture purpose. Same way with the Seechewal Model the treated water of the
ponds in about 150 villages of Punjab is being utilized for agriculture
purpose. He also supervised the work of recharging of the fields water in the
field, the machine that arrange solid waste, nursery, Nanak Hutt, Avtar Radio
and other environment connected works. On this occasion he had with him
agriculture officer Kapurthala Dr. Gurdeep Singh, Block Technology manager
Sultanpur Lodhi, Gurwinder Singh Boparai, Parminder Kumar, Jaspal Singh, Sucha
Singh and others were also present.
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