Chandigarh, Oct 22: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday batted for further promotion of interstate trade within the country for remunerative price of produce of the farmers on one hand and supply of quality products at affordable price to the people on the other.
Presiding over a meeting with the Chairman and Managing Directors of the various states here, the Chief Minister said all states must join their hands for developing a common platform to buy and sell commodities.
He said this is the need of the hour to safeguard the interests of both the consumers and the farmers. Mann said this would ensure the availability of best products to the people and remunerative price of the produce to the farmers. The Chief Minister said it would ensure that cross sections of society are benefitted from this practice. He said now that the entire world has emerged as a single market, the unnecessary shackles within the states regarding production and marketing of produce should be removed. (IANS)
