Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, May 26: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee’s (JKPCC) Kissan Cell, Bharat Priye today led a delegation of senior Congress and youth leaders to submit a memorandum to Additional Deputy Commissioner Reasi, Rakesh Kumar, seeking immediate intervention to address the growing hardships being faced by the farming community across the district.
The delegation, accompanied by Ajay Salathia, president DCC Reasi, Kamal Singh, Chairman District Congress Kissan Cell Reasi, senior leaders Munshi Ram Salathia, Vijay Kumar Sharma and Ramesh Chander and others, urged the district administration to take immediate and concrete steps for safeguarding the interests of farmers.
In the memorandum, Bharat Priye highlighted that farmers in Reasi district are facing serious difficulties due to irregular supply and inadequate availability of fertilizers at authorised outlets during the peak agricultural season. He stressed that many cultivators are being forced to purchase fertilizers from private dealers at inflated rates, causing heavy financial burden on small and marginal farmers. The delegation demanded adequate stocking and timely distribution of fertilizers in every block and remote area of the district.
The Congress leaders expressed concern over the supply of substandard and uncertified seeds to farmers. They demanded strict monitoring of seed distribution centers and urged the administration to ensure availability of certified high-yield quality seeds so that farmers can improve productivity and avoid crop losses.
Raising the issue of continuously increasing diesel and petrol prices, Bharat said that farmers dependent on diesel-operated tractors, tillers, irrigation pumps and other agricultural machinery are finding cultivation increasingly unaffordable. He appealed to the government to provide diesel subsidy support to farmers in Jammu and Kashmir to reduce cultivation costs and provide much-needed relief to the agrarian community already struggling with economic distress.
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