Horticulture Dept comes up with summer vegetable seed kit

Jalandhar, February 19

Summer vegetable seed kit has been prepared by the Horticulture Department. The varieties which are prepared by the department are bottle gourd, sponge gourd, pumpkin, bitter gourd, tinda, long melon, lobia, cluster beans, ladyfinger and muskmelon. The cost of each kit is Rs 80.

A total of 25,000 kits have been prepared by the department. One can buy the kits from the office of the Department of Horticulture, Punjab. The kits have also been provided by the department to encourage kitchen gardening.

The kits read, ‘gharelu bagichi lagao, paushtik khurak paao, kharche bachao’. The officials said, “These vegetables are rich in nutrition but because of adulteration, one cannot consume proper nutrition, but this problem can get solved if one adopts kitchen gardening”.

The Horticulture Department has also developed seed kits which contain seeds of 10 varieties of vegetables for the winter season.

Radish, carrot, turnip, methi, spinach, coriander, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, black carrot and lettuce are the varieties provided by the department in the kits in winters.

Two years ago, the department had come up with an informative pamphlet/handbook, ‘Vegetable Nutrition and Herbal Garden,’ which is written by Dr Sukhdip Singh Hundal, Assistant Director Horticulture-cum-state nodal officer of kitchen gardening, Punjab. The pamphlet has been widely appreciated by people. — TNS