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Bumper wheat crop along IB expected
By Luv Puri
SUCHETGARH (JAMMU),
MARCH 31.
The standing wheat crop has put the smiles back on farmers living along the International Border (IB) as for the first time after several years the fields near the Zero Line could be cultivated.
The November ceasefire has come as a big relief to farmers on both sides of the plain border and a bumper crop is expected.
The truce has also expedited the de-mining operations. During `Operation Parakram' more than one lakh people from the densely-populated areas near the International Border had to migrate to the interiors and the forward areas were mined. Since last November, the engineers unit of the Army could carry out de-mining operations in a more secure environment with no firing from across the border. In Suchetgarh, more than 90 per cent of the area up to the Zero Line has come under cultivation. Hundreds of acres in the forward areas have been returned to the farmers.
Kartar Singh, a resident of Nai Basti said: "The ceasefire will lead to prosperity on both sides of the border. If everything goes well we may have a bumper crop." As the officiating Commanding Officer (CO) of 60 Battalion (BSF), Suchetgarh, K.S. Rawat, put it, "because of the ceasefire the farmers would get a good return on their hard work.''
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