"Who's Anti-Farmer? Punjab Or Haryana": ML Khattar Asks Amarinder Singh

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had earlier in the day mocked Haryana's Manohar Lal Khattar, asking his party to repeal the central farm laws.

The Chief Ministers of Punjab and Haryana are locked in a battle of words over which state is doing better on the agriculture front. Amarinder Singh and Manohar Lal Khattar's exchanges come in the back drop of a months-long protest against three central farm laws and a couple of events from the past few days. 2.Haryana provides an incentive of Rs 7000/- per acre to every farmer who wants to move away from paddy cultivation. What is the incentive that Punjab provides to the farmer similarly? Haryana's Khattar today posted a series of tweets listing his state's welfare schemes for farmers and asked the Punjab Chief Minister to decide for himself who was 'pro-farmer'. For instance, he posted: "Haryana procures 10 crops at MSP -- paddy, wheat, mustard, bajra, gram, moong, maize, ground nut, sun flower, cotton and makes the MSP payment directly into the account of the farmer. How many crops does Punjab buy from the farmer at MSP?" Similarly, he said, "Haryana pays every farmer Rs 1,000 per acre for stubble management and provides linkages for sale of paddy straw. What incentive does Punjab provide to the farmer?"