Provide cheaper diesel to farmers, PM Modi urged

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Updated At : 11:54 AM Sep 12, 2021 IST

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Faridkot, September 11

The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Khosa) on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to issue special cards to farmers to provide them diesel on base prices for agricultural use.

In a letter to the Prime Minister’s Office, the union asked PM Modi to provide diesel at Rs 35 per litre. For this purpose, the government needed to provide special cards to farmers.

Keeping in view the high input costs in agriculture with a stupendous increase in fuel prices, seeds, pesticides, insecticides and fertilisers, farming was turning into a low-return venture, claimed the union leaders. Diesel was one of the main components in agriculture to run tractors for sowing and transportation. The meagre increase in the MSP was no succour, they said.

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