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Farmers told to procure quality seed

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MAHABUBNAGAR: Minister for Information D.K. Aruna asked cotton farmers not to buy unbranded spurious seed as quality seed is available in sufficient quantity in the district.

She said as against a requirement of 6 lakh packets, 4.56 lakh packets were supplied to the district of which 3.69 lakh packets were sold to farmers. The rest would be supplied soon apart from 87,000 packets available in the market.

She said the police arrested gangs selling spurious seed without proper packing and branding at Gattu and Boothpur. Similarly, cases were booked at Amangal, Jadcherla and Bijinepalli for other violations.

She asked the traders also to adopt fair trade practices to avoid punishment.

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