Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 21: Opening up of the trading of Khairwood at farmers’ will, lead to prosperity of farmers. This was stated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kissan Morcha, State president Rajinder Singh Chib during a press conference at the party Headquarter, Trikuta Nagar today.
Kissan Morcha expressed its confidence in the decision of the Alliance Government in which their long pending demand about the Khair wood was addressed.
Rajinder Singh Chib said that the Khairwood tree is found in the farms of farmers on the hilly terrain. Katha and many Ayurvedic medicines are evolved from this very particular tree, but as it was banned to cut the trees in the State for the last 40 years, the farmers of the State have suffered a lot earlier. And now when, the ban was lifted on cutting the trees, the rate which was being allotted for the wood was very meagre amount of that available in the nearby states.
He remarked that in J&K, farmers were getting the rate of 800-850 (CFT) as compared to the 3500-4000 (CFT) in the neighbouring states.
He exclaimed with joy that the Government has now decided to open this now and as the result, now the State farmer has got the right to sell the Khair Wood at his will to any place at the market rate. And thus the farmers of the State express their gratitude towards the Alliance Government for considering their long pending demand.
Kissan Morcha State general secretary Raghuvir Singh Manhas and Sunil Sharma, Deepak Sharma and Rattan Lal Sharma were also present in the press conference.
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