Summary:
Members of BKU (Sidhupur) are demanding a raise in the limit of moisture content to 24%. Former rural development minister Sikander Singh Maluka and former finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa accompanied Sukhbir in the mandis. BARNALA/BATHINDA: Concerned over a ‘glut-like’ situation with farmers facing hardships in selling paddy due to high moisture content, SAD president Sukhbir Badal on Saturday visited grain markets of Barnala and threatened to hold a protest if the procurement was not streamlined. After visiting Tapa grain market in Barnala, Sukhbir said, “I have met a number of farmers who have been sitting for many days waiting to sell the crop. On Friday, TOI had highlighted how farmers had to spend days in mandis to sell their produce and even had to spend Diwali night in mandis in Barnala.The farmers are sitting for days in mandis waiting for the grains to dry up so that the moisture content was within the permissible limit of 17%..