Biotech Updates

Sale of Virus Free Potato Seed in Pakistan

September 19, 2008

Punjab Seed Corporation (PSC) has started the sale of virus free potato seed prepared through modern tissue culture technology (TCT). A spokesman of the corporation said that limited quantities of Caroda, Santee, Burna and Easterx are also available in addition to red varieties of desiries, cardinal and white variety Diamante.

He said that price of 50 kilogram bag has been fixed at Rs.1500 which would be provided to growers on "first come first served" basis. The spokesman asked the growers who had already booked potato seed to pay the remaining amount and lift their booked quantity up to first week of October.

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