To save the farmers from financial exploitation by ensuring supply of quality seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, Punjab Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department has set up five teams of Flying Squad for Rabi season.
These teams will visit retail or wholesale dealers shop,
Punjab is expecting a bumper output of paddy crop this year, despite floods during the kharif season 2023-24. The state, known as the food bowl of the country, is expecting paddy output to cross 205 lakh metric tonnes, with an average yield going up by more than four quintal per hectare compared to last year.
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Currently, Punjab meets only a fraction, around 20 to 25%, of its required 5 lakh tonnes of edible oil, leaving a substantial gap in meeting its own needs.