Agri Department announces rates of kharif seeds

UNA, APRIL 28

The Una Agriculture Department today notified the price of seeds to be sown during the coming ‘kharif’ season by the farmers in the district. As per a communique, the seeds which will be available to the farmers at various sales outlets of the department include single cross maize seed at Rs 10,200 per quintal, of which Rs 4,000 will be the subsidy component by the state government, while the farmers will have to pay Rs 6,200.

The cost of double cross maize seed has been fixed at Rs 8,500 per quintal on which the farmers will be given a subsidy of Rs 4,000 and the seed will be available to the farmers at Rs 4,500 per quintal. Sorghum fodder seed will cost Rs 3,000 per quintal to the farmer, after Rs 3,000 per quintal government subsidy. Of the Rs 9,000 per quintal price fixed for pearl millet seed, the farmer’s share will be Rs 4,600 while the remaining Rs 4,400 will be the subsidy component. — OC