AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION

SEED SUPPLY

Healthy and vigorous seed contribute towards a better yield, farmers, therefore, always try to secure good seed. Almost all the cultivators preserve the grains of the selected earheads from vigorous plants at the time of harvesting for seed purposes in the next sowing season. Sometimes cultivators obtain seed from big cultivators and from various localities known for quality seed.

The Agriculture department also propagates improved strains of various food grains, vegetables, fruits, etc. The five seed development centres at Tasgaon, Jath, Kupwad, Digraj and Bevur supply improved seed to the cultivators in the district. The seed obtained from Government farms is multiplied on the farms of registered seed growers from whom it is purchased by the department at a premium of eight annas per Bengali maund over the current local price. Sometimes cultivators directly purchase seed from the progressive cultivators or the registered seed growers. Seeds are also distributed by the Panchayat Samiti through the gramsevaks.

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