Punjab's kitchen gardening project: seed packets to be available from February 10

Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) is starting sale of seeds of summer season vegetables from February 10, under the Chief Minister Punjab's kitchen gardening project aimed at promotion of growing vegetables at domestic level.
According to the agricultural experts, most suitable time for sowing of vegetables of summer season is from February 15 to March 15 and the department intends to sell around 60,000 packets of seeds during this period to the masses.
The seed packets will be available at Rs 50 per pack. These vegetables include cucumber, okra, pumpkin etc. It may be mentioned here that the department had sold 170,000 packets of winter season vegetables during the Rabi drive of promotion of kitchen gardening scheme.
A PAD spokesman said here on Tuesday that citizen intending to grow vegetables under kitchen gardening project may contact the department officials through its helpline or approach the District Officer (Agriculture Extension) or Deputy District Officer (Agri Extension) in their respective districts. He underlined that substantial portion of domestic needs can be met through promotion of kitchen gardening.
He added that voluntary participation of urban, semi-urban and rural population in kitchen gardening would result in increasing vegetable production in the province and it would also ensure availability of quality and fresh vegetables to the masses on cheaper rates, which would be full of nutrition and free of any disease.