Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan visited flood-affected farms in the Basmati-rich R S Pura area of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. He assured the impacted farmers that both the central and state governments, with the support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would take all necessary actions to restore their livelihoods and help them recover from this disaster. The floods, caused by heavy rains at the end of August, severely impacted thousands of hectares of land in Jammu, especially in the R S Pura region. “I have come here to tell you that the central government, together with the state government and with the blessings of the prime minister, will pull the farmers out of this disaster.
Your pain is our pain, your suffering is our suffering,” Chouhan stated to farmers in Gram Badyal Brahmin in R S Pura.