<h1>Government to cultivate potatoes on over 50,000 acres with 300,000 seed tubers distributed block-wise from November</h1> The state government plans to cultivate potatoes on more than 50,000 acres this year and aims for self-reliance by ensuring advance supply of quality seed tubers; approximately 300,000 seed tubers are required and will be distributed by the Agriculture Department on a block-wise basis beginning the first week of November. A high-level meeting chaired by a senior official directed concerned officers to coordinate timely supply. Parallel cultivation targets include onions on 6,000 hectares, chillies on 1,000 hectares, and garlic on 300 hectares.