Punjab Cabinet has given nod to ‘The Punjab Tissue Culture Based Seed Potato Rules-2021’ to develop Punjab as a standard potato seed centre.
- The move will lead to increase in the area under potato cultivation.
- With the decision, Punjab has become the first state in the country to have the facility of tissue culture-based certification, which will further boost developing Jalandhar-Kapurthala belt as the potato export hub.
- Tissue culture (TC) is the cultivation of plant cells, tissues, or organs on specially formulated nutrient media. Under the right conditions, an entire plant can be regenerated from a single cell.
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