20% Potato crop damaged in Punjab due to frosty weather

About 20 per cent of the potato crop in Punjab was damaged due to frosty weather conditions in Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said today.

Talking to reporters in Chandigarh, he said about 75,000 hectares of agricultural land in the state were under potato cultivation of which 20 per cent was damaged.

If the weather will not be under control in the coming few days, then more damages could be faced.