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Punjab govt to provide 23,500 subsidized paddy residue management machines to farmers in Kharif season

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Chandigarh: To motivate the farming community to restrain from burning crop residue, the Punjab Government has decided to provide subsidy worth Rs. 300 crore ranging from 50% to 80% to farmers for the purchase of 23,500 agro-machines/farm equipments for the management of paddy residue during Kharif, 2020.

Disclosing this here today, Additional Chief Secretary (Development) Anirudh Tiwari said that state government has invited applications from farmers both individually and in groups to provide subsidy on the purchase of paddy residue management machines in the current Kharif season.

Pointing out further, Tiwari said that it has been decided to give these machines to 7000 farmers, 5000 cooperative societies, panchayats and farmers groups to refrain them from burning crop residue to make ‘Punjab Clean, Green and Pollution Free’. Subsidy to individual farmers shall be given at the rate of 50% of cost of the machines and the same shall be 80% in case of societies and farmers groups.

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