Garden scheme to increase cultivation of vegetables

This will enable women to produce fresh, residue-free vegetables in their households

The government will implement the Chief Minister’s Nutritive Vegetable Garden Scheme to enable women to produce fresh and residue-free vegetables in their households for their daily needs and to enable children to learn about plants. To be implemented on an outlay of ₹95 crore with State government funds and contributions of the Union government, two lakh seed kits, consisting 12 types of vegetable seeds, will be distributed at subsidised rates in rural areas, Agriculture Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam said in the Assembly on Saturday. One lakh terrace garden kits, with six types of vegetable seeds, will be distributed at subsidised rates in urban areas. With this, the area under vegetable cultivation is expected to be increased. “The required 50-crore vegetable seedlings and 400 metric tones of vegetable seeds will be produced in State horticulture farms and distributed,” he said.