On a day when Parliament was adjourned on the famine issue, very few knew that it had been raining heavily in Punjab and Haryana and both the states hope to have record produce of food grains this year. This was disclosed by senior official of the Punjab government.
"Punjab has already managed to sow the peddy in more than 90 per cent area meant for cultivation. In rest of the fields oil-seeds, vegetables and other food grains have been planted. Last year paddy cultivation was carried out in about 28 lakh hectares of land and this yielded in record production of more then 126 lakh metric tonnes," a senior minister in the Prakash Singh Badal government told media-persons on Tuesday.
Haryana chief minister Bhpinder Singh Huda said that he was more than happy with the rainfall in the state. "11.5 lakh hactres of paddy has already been sown and more then 8 lakh tonnes have been planted. " We still have provision of basmati rice and other variety of crops," Huda told journalists who had been covering water scarcity in the state
