New Delhi: To ensure that farmers do not face problem in harvesting of rabi crops in the coming days, the Centre on Friday exempted mandis, procurement agencies, farm operations, agri machinery hiring centres as well as intra- and inter-state movement of farm implements from the lockdown rules.
The government has also exempted farm workers as well as manufacturing and packaging units of fertilisers, pesticides and seeds from the lockdown order, according to the latest directive issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Fertiliser shops and custom hiring centres of farm machineries have also been allowed to function during the lockdown period, it said. "Agencies engaged in procurement of agriculture products, including minimum support price