Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal assured a delegation of Aarhtiyas that the matter of reducing commission for cotton crop will be addressed in a joint meeting of Aarhtiyas, cotton farmers and representatives of cotton factories at Chandigarh on September 9.
A Delegation of Commission agent raised their demands before the Agriculture Minister in the presence of Additional Chief Secretary of the Agriculture Department Sarvjit Singh, who gave a patient hearing to the long pending demands of aarhtiyas.
The Minister while giving this information said that on the request of the aarhtiyas, the government has decided to conduct the auction of vacant plots/shops in the Grain markets. Apart from this, the 24% interest on the outstanding amount of the Aarhtiyas' shops would be rationalized.
Agreeing to another demand of Aarhtiyas, the Agriculture Minister said that Basmati and non-MSP crops on which MSP has not been announced yet, their land mapping will not be done for now.