date:Feb 04, 2020
Last Friday, state Agriculture Minister Dada Bhuse said that the government was planning to give banana the 'fruit' status, in order for farmers to the desired subsidy from the state government through the various schemes.
Bhuse said that many farmers were pressing the status of banana to be changed. The district guardian minister of Jalgaon, Gulabrao Patil, during the meeting, has demanded that the government should take steps to help the banana-growers as they were suffering immensely from th