he state regional office of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) will assist farmers in the state to produce quality certified seeds in the coming years.
NABARD is set to expand its pilot project “seed village” , which was started in five villages of Hamirpur district in Bundelkhand region, to 10 villages in Kanpur Dehat in the coming financial year.
Informing about the initiative on Wednesday, D P Mishra, Chief General Manager of NABARD, UP Region, said Rs 8 lakh has been sanctioned to the Indian Institute of Pulse Research to implement seed village concept in selected blocks of Kanpur Dehat. According to sources, around 19 districts in the state have been selected to implement this project in the coming years.
Mishra said: “The farmers usually get government supplied seeds in UP which are not in adequate quantity or they have to depend on procuring high quality seeds from other states.”
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