The state Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture department has pulled up its socks to speed up distribution of seeds and help farmers in kharif season. The early arrival of southwest monsoon inBiharhas made the condition favourable for the farmers to sow paddy seeds.
The department has set the target to distribute 1.13 lakh quintals of paddy seeds, including 10,000 quintals of hybrid seeds (DRRH3, DRRH2, 27P31 and Arize) and the remaining of open pollinated variety seeds (IR-64, Swarna MTU-7029 and Sabour Shree). Under its Home delivery scheme, the districts have distributed seeds to 56,000 farmers against 1.60 lakh registration.
The agriculture experts feel the farmers in Bihar would get good output in this kharif season due to early arrival of monsoon, widespread rain and early sowing of paddy seeds.