{"id":289313,"date":"2019-08-29T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289313"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:20:10","slug":"punjab-farm-policy-draft-mulls-cap-on-paddy-crop-cut-in-power-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-farm-policy-draft-mulls-cap-on-paddy-crop-cut-in-power-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab farm policy draft mulls cap on paddy crop, cut in power subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limiting paddy cultivation by a Punjab farmer to a maximum of four hectares, sourcing milk and eggs for mid-day meal scheme, cutting down on agricultural power subsidy for big farmers and setting up of a crop compensation fund for failed crops are among the measures that Punjab State Farmers Commission (PSFC) has suggested for reinvigorating agriculture in the State. <\/p>\n<p>These recommendations are part of a first-of-its-kind policy for farmers in the State that the commission has been drafting for some time. <\/p>\n<p>Contentious suggestions <\/p>\n<p>Even though the first draft of the report was ready nearly a year ago, the State government hasn\u2019t accepted it yet as it fears that some measures suggested in the draft policy may antagonise the farmers, a powerful bloc in the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limiting paddy cultivation by a Punjab farmer to a maximum of four hectares, sourcing milk and eggs for mid-day meal scheme, cutting down on agricultural power subsidy for big farmers and setting up of a crop compensation fund for failed crops are among the measures that Punjab State Farmers Commission (PSFC) has suggested for reinvigorating agriculture in the State. These recommendations are part of a first-of-its-kind policy for farmers in the State that the commission has been drafting for some time. Contentious suggestions Even though the first draft of the report was ready nearly a year ago, the State government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}