With a view to making high quality certified seeds of wheat accessible to farmers of Haryana during the ensuing Rabi season, the State Government has made available 16.54 lakh quintal seeds for them as compared to the sale of 12.92 lakh quintal seeds last year.
Haryana Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar said that the present government is committed to provide high quality seeds of wheat to farmers. Hence, more certified seeds of wheat have been made available as compared to its sale of last year.
He said that the State Government has made elaborate arrangements for making the seeds available to the farmers. Unlike the previous regimes, the farmers would not be made to suffer due to want of seed availability or any other agricultural inputs for sowing their crops.
Being pro farmer, the State Government is committed to the welfare of farmers and all out efforts would be made to ease the production process of the crops for the hard working farmers of the state, he added.
He said that so far more than 4.02 lakh quintal of certified seeds have been made available with Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC) this year as compared to sale of over 2.20 lakh quintal of certified seeds last year.
Besides, private Institutes have been made available over 11.92 lakh quintal of certified seeds. The government is making every possible effort to provide certified seeds of wheat to every farmer this year, he added.
The Minister said that directions have been issued to provide additional two lakh quintal 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.
Dhankar said that till November 7, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC) had provided 1.80 lakh quintals of seeds to farmers and 25 thousand quintal is still remaining with the Corporation. Haryana Seeds Development Corporation is in the process of making the availability of about 2 lakh quintal more certified seeds of wheat to the farmers, out of which quantity of 50000 certified seeds has already been made available.