{"id":18308,"date":"2018-01-12T05:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=18308"},"modified":"2018-01-12T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:40:51","slug":"farmers-of-punjab-not-so-happy-with-the-debt-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/farmers-of-punjab-not-so-happy-with-the-debt-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers of Punjab not so happy with the debt waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>CHARAN KAMAL SINGH<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300; text-align: left;\">Chandigarh, Jan. 12 :While the Punjab government has started debt waive in Punjab, however the farmers of Punjab are not so happy with this. Punjab Congress party announced before the Vidhan Sabha elections that if it comes to power, the party will for sure bring Dept waiver for the farmers of Punjab. The farmers were very happy with the Congress party&#8217;s announcement and brought it into power voting heavily for Congress. However after 10 months of Congress government in Punjab the debt waiver has not come up to the expectations of the farmers who were expecting full waiver of their debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Presently almost every farmer in Punjab has a debt of rupees 5 to 8 lakh. The most interesting part is that most of the farmers in Punjab have 2 to 3 acres of land and they have taken loan not only for the crop but also for making their houses, buying Tractors or other vehicles and so on. Moreover they have also purchased seeds on higher rates as desi seeds are no more available to them.<br \/>\nIt is very interesting to note here that while the rate of potato has decreased to 1 to 2 rupees per kg and the farmers are forced to destroy there production, the potato chips being are being sold at rupees 20 for per 200 grams. This is a mockery on farmers that they are not given full value of their production. Even the Swaminathan report is not being implemented by the Indian Govt. which suggests full value for crop for the farmer.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARAN KAMAL SINGH Chandigarh, Jan. 12 :While the Punjab government has started debt waive in Punjab, however the farmers of Punjab are not so happy with this. Punjab Congress party announced before the Vidhan Sabha elections that if it comes to power, the party will for sure bring Dept waiver for the farmers of Punjab. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18312,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18308\/revisions\/18312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}