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Five flying squad teams to ensure quality agri-inputs supply to Punjab farmers

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 expecting bumper paddy yield despite kharif season marred by floods

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punjab paddy output: Punjab expecting bumper paddy yield despite kharif season marred by floods

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.

Rain spell to aid wheat crop sowing in Punjab and Haryana, say experts

Goodbye to farm fires as Punjab farmers set to complete wheat sowing even as experts bat for oilseeds

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.