Punjab Government would provide subsidised seeds of paddy, moong and legume plants to rain-hit farmers for the next crops. Announcing this, the State Agriculture Minister Tota Singh on Sunday said the State Government has a stock of 3,330 quintals of seed of PR-123 variety of paddy which would be sold to farmers at the rate of Rs3,500 per quintal.
The Minister said that seed stock of about 4,050 quintal of Basmati Pusa-1509 is available and that sale price of which had been fixed at Rs7,000 per quintal. Besides paddy, to improve the texture, fertility and organic mettle in the soil, the Government would supply about 40,950 of legume plant (jantter) to farmers at the subsidised rate of Rs2,000 per quintal through the district Agriculture officers of their respective areas, he said.