Over 200K farmers in Rajasthan become self-dependent by producing seeds

Looking at the success of the scheme, the chief minister in the last Budget doubled the size of the plan and announced benefiting 50,000 farmers

More than 200,000 farmers in Rajasthan are becoming self-dependent by producing seeds in their fields and not buying them from markets.

This has become possible because of the Mukhyamantri Beej Swavlamban Yojana. The agriculture department has provided improved varieties of seeds to farmers for seed production.

A senior agriculture department official said farmers in all the districts had been given free seeds of wheat, gram, sorghum, soybean, groundnut, and pulses along those of other crops.

The official said the farmers’ produce increased with this scheme and their income grew, and the problem of improved seeds not being available at the