The Punjab government is considering to move a bill in the provincial assembly of Punjab to discourage setting up of housing schemes at cultivable land.

Provincial government has chalked out a well-knitted plan costing more than Rs 3 billion for banishing backwardness and to provide basic facilities in rural areas of the Punjab. Official sources told Business Recorder here on Friday that under the plan, link roads, water, sewerage, rural dispensaries would be ensured in rural areas of the Province.

Khanauri (Sangrur): Ghaggar, known to be flooding paddy crop in and around this area in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency and also in parts of Patiala, is changing after decades .

Patiala: Directly sown paddy, sans the troublesome puddling exercise, could prove to be a boon for farmers and lead to saving of as much as upto Rs 7,000 per acre for farmers of Punjab.

Vijay C Roy / Chandigarh April 16, 2009, 0:25 IST

Wheat procurement from Punjab is expected to be lower this season following reduced estimates for the crop.

Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) has given approval of 18 agricultural projects worth Rs 359.8 million to carry out research in wheat, rice, vegetables and cotton crops. The approval was accorded at the 18th meeting of the PARB board of directors held here on Tuesday with the Punjab Agriculture Minister, Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh.

Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford.

Julah Majra in Nawanshahr district is one of the few villages in Punjab where one gets to savour an unusual sight. As the final bell rings at the government school here, hundreds of girls, clearly outnumbering the boys, tramp out of the classrooms.

Jalandhar: Doaba farmers today demonstrated at Jaffarpur village, near Shahkot, 40 km from here, to protest against a potato seed company-Technico limited. Farmers accused the company of providing defective seed to them.

Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) has given approval of 18 agricultural projects worth Rs 359.8 million to carry out research in wheat, rice, vegetables and cotton crops. The approval was accorded at the 18th meeting of the PARB board of directors held here on Tuesday with the Punjab Agriculture Minister, Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh.

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