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2044 Model Fertilizer Retail Shops made operational across the country: Rao Inderjit Singh

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New Delhi: Minister of State for Planning (IC) and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri Rao Inderjit Singh, in a written reply to a question by Shri Mahesh Poddar on steps taken by Government to open Model Fertilizers Retail Shops to provide quality fertilizers and for hiring of farming equipment in the country, in Rajya Sabha today, informed that during Budget 2016-17, it was announced that over a period of three years, 2000 Model Fertilizer Retail Shops would be opened across the country. The target has been achieved and 2044 Model Fertilizer Retail Shops have been made operational, the Minister informed.

Model Fertilizer Retail Shops provide mandatory services like selling of quality fertilizers at genuine rates, soil testing, seed testing, promotion of balanced use of nutrients etc. Some optional services are also provided through these shops like hiring of equipment such as tractors, laser evelers, rotavator, crop harvester and thrashers, hiring of sprayers, sale of small implements like spades and sickles etc.

A State-wise details of Model Fertilizer Retail Shops is as provided below:
S. No. State Number of Shops
1 ANDHRA PRADESH 299
2 ASSAM 12
3 BIHAR 98
4 CHHATTISGARH 16
5 DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 1
6 GOA 3
7 GUJARAT 214
8 HARYANA 114
9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 1
10 JAMMU & KASHMIR 1
11 JHARKHAND 13
12 KARNATAKA 97
13 KERALA 13
14 MADHYA PRADESH 84
15 MAHARASHTRA 164
16 ODISHA 13
17 PUNJAB 141
18 RAJASTHAN 45
19 TAMIL NADU 47
20 TELANGANA 212
21 UTTAR PRADESH 366
22 UTTARAKHAND 14
23 WEST BENGAL 76

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