Punjab to promote kitchen gardening culture

Provincial agriculture department has formulated a comprehensive plan for the promotion of kitchen gardening culture across the Punjab. Sources in agriculture department told Business Recorder on Sunday that under the plan the department will be sold 50,000 summer (Kharif) seed kits on inexpensive rates across the province. The government was very keen to promote kitchen gardening to enable people to get fresh home grown vegetables.
The step has been taken for the promotion of kitchen gardening culture and to create awareness about the importance and utility of home grown fresh vegetables across the Province. In Sialkot district, Kitchen gardening has gained popularity among people especially the women folk belonging to urban and rural parts and obtaining guidance from agriculture department regarding kitchen gardening regularly.
The kitchen gardening is actively attaching highest importance in the wake of upsurge in prices, malnutrition, poverty alleviation and consumption of fresh and home grown vegetables sources added.
Under the programme, 1300 seed kits would be sold in Sialkot district out of which 500 in Sialkot tehsil, 300 in tehsil Daska 300, 300 Pasrur tehsil and 200 in tehsil Sambrial would be sold on subsidized rates to facilitate the people and ensure the promotion of kitchen gardening culture at gross roots level.