SME Times News Bureau | 17 Mar, 2018
Minister
of State for Planning (IC) and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Rao
Inderjit Singh, 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.