Punjab Agriculture Minister Randeep Singh Nabha has appealed to all farmers, cooperatives, and panchayats who have been sanctioned to purchase machinery to present all machines for physical verification on November 1, 2021 at all Block Agricultural Officers’ offices or specified alternate venues. Once the machines have been validated, the procedure for releasing subsidies will begin immediately. He further stated that the subsidy will be distributed to farmers’ or cooperatives’ bank accounts in accordance with the scheme’s parameters.
He also urged Scheduled Castes, Panchayats, and Cooperatives farmers to apply for paddy residue management equipment through the department’s website. Department officials will assist you in submitting applications via the site if you have any difficulties. The role of panchayats and cooperatives in providing machinery to small, marginal, and SC farmers is critical.
Farmers have been instructed not to burn paddy straw and instead use equipment made accessible to Cooperative Societies and Panchayats, as well as other Custom Hiring Centres around the state. Other solutions, such as bio-decomposers and direct seeding of wheat, are available to farmers, he added.