The Uttarakhand Seeds and Terai Development Corporation limited has fixed the price of certified unprocessed wheat seed at Rs 1,625 per quintal. The price was decided in a meeting of the department heads chaired over by the corporation managing director Jyoti Neeraj Khairwal at the corporation headquarter in Haldi on Sunday afternoon. The rate was fixed under the Rabi 2016-17 seed production programme, informed the officials.
The recently appointed managing director of the corporation informed that more than 50 per cent of the samples of wheat seeds had been received so far. For inter-taking of the seeds of other latter varities of wheat, the samples are expected to be received in the near future from Nainital, Dehradun, Haridwar and other districts of the state, she added.
It is also pertinent to mention here that the Uttarakhand Seeds and Terai Development Corporation is also making efforts to recover the pending dues of past years amounting to crores of rupees. For this purpose, attempt is being made from the managing director level to recover the pending dues from the distributors in the state of Bihar and from the Uttarakhand agriculture and cooperatives department soon. The dues are expected to be cleared in the near future which is also expected to improve the financial position of the corporation, state sources.