Punjab to Conduct Physical Verification of 5,034 Crop Residue Management Machines on July 26

Keeping the interests of the state farmers in mind, the Chief Minister S. Bhagwant Singh Mann led Punjab Government has decided to undertake the physical verification of Crop Residue Management (CRM) machines on July 26, 2024, which was pending from the last season, informed S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Punjab.

He further added that around 5034 CRM machines’ physical verification is pending since last year due to which around Rs. 58 crore subsidy has not been disbursed to the beneficiary farmers. He appealed to the beneficiary farmers, farmer groups, Panchayats, Co-operative societies, who could not get their machines verification done, to contact their district Agriculture offices concerned to present the machines for physical verification at the decided time and place to avail the subsidy at the earliest.

Notably, Punjab Government has been implementing the CRM Scheme for management of paddy straw and other crops residue in the state for the last five years. Under the scheme, subsidy is being provided to the farmers on the procurement of CRM machines. Some of the farmers could not get their machines verified on the due dates viz November 01 & December 08, 2023 and later on March 18, 2024 due to unforeseen circumstances/personal reasons.