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NOT SO PAYING: Punjab farmers say agriculture is increasingly becoming unviable.

NOT SO PAYING: Punjab farmers say agriculture is increasingly becoming unviable.

Forget farming, focus on industrialisation: Punjab

Long considered the food bowl of the country, Punjab is now asking to be excused from the responsibility of producing wheat and rice. Punjab government has written a letter to the Union Government saying the state wants to shift from agriculture towards industrialisation. In a letter written to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the state government has asked to be excused from paddy cultivation and to be allowed switch to pulses that need less water.

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