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‘Focus on farmers in export policy’

CHANDIGARH: The Member of Parliament from Rohtak, Deepender Singh Hooda, on Thursday urged the Union Government to give utmost priority to the farmers’ interests in the new Export Policy.

Participating in a meeting of the Lok Sabha’s Standing Committee for Agriculture in New Delhi, Mr. Hooda impressed upon the Centre to lift the ban on export of non-basmati rice and Pusa-1121 variety as it was being cultivated by Haryana farmers on a large-scale.

He emphasized that the Export Policy should have been pro-farmer to give equal thrust to the agriculture sector along with industrial sector. Farmers should be provided relief in the new Export Policy, he added.

He said the Standing Committee for Agriculture would present the report on Agricultural Pricing in the Lok Sabha.

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