The Hindu Business Line : `Raise cultivation of oil seeds'

The Sattur Chamber of Commerce and Industries has urged the Union Government to boost the cultivation of oil seeds by `all means and on priority basis'. In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, the Chamber Secretary, Mr P.K.A. Balasubramaninan, said that export of sesame seeds and oil has led to an abnormal rise in oil per litre from Rs 70 to Rs 104, and is projected to touch Rs 120 per litre shortly. Also, there is a rise in the prices of other oils too. This is sure to hit the poor and middle class hard. The Government must take steps to promote the wasteland irrigation scheme intensively and bring all waste and vacant lands for cultivation, and ensure supply of water for irrigation to enable good volume of yields of farm products, he added. - Our Correspondent

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