Delayed Lifting Of Wheat Left Farmers Worried

Rajpura: Agriculturists coming to mandis in the city of Patiala are up in arms against administrative functionaries. They stated that delayed lifting of wheat has left the mandis worried.

Weighing, cleaning and packing of wheat in jute bags is being carried out on roads. With the climate turning dull, the agriculturists are eager that their wheat gets lifted well in due course.

Lots of agriculturists at the local grain market sounded off that they had been awaiting their stock to be lifted for the past 2-4 days in order that they could raise additional stock.

A worried Harpreet Singh stated: “The climate is bad and the lifting of wheat is sluggish, in spite of the government assurance that they would speed up work.”

When met, the Rajpura Market Committee secretary, Som Pal, admitted some postponement in the lifting procedure.

“The tendering for trucks that carry the wheat was again done today after the earlier bidder denied lifting wheat. We are confident that things will shortly be sorted out,” Pal said.