Haryana to focus on high quality seeds in current Rabi season

With a view to providing high quality certified seeds of wheat to farmers of Haryana during the ensuing Rabi season, more than 16.54 lakh quintal seeds have been made available for sale.
The government will provide high quality seeds of wheat to farmers this year, an official spokesman said here today.
Hence, more seeds of wheat have been kept for sale as compared to last year when only 12,92,640 quintals of seeds were available for sale, he said.
So far, more than 2.02 lakh quintals of certified seeds have been made available with Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC), National Seeds Corporation (80,000 quintals), HAFED (66,000 quintals), IFFCO (77,000 quintals) , KRIBHCO (30,000 quintals), CCS Haryana Agricultural University (6,000 quintals) and more than 11.92 lakh quintals with private institutions for sale.

The official said that directions have been issued to provide additional two lakh quintals of wheat to HSDC which would be made available soon.
Similarly, directions have been issued to provide more seeds to other government institutions which included 50,000 quintals to NSC and 20,000 quintals to KRIBHCO.