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Process slow in K’thala as only 1K quintals distributed so farAparna BanerjiTribune News ServiceJalandhar, November 14With 15 days to go for the wheat season to end, the Agriculture Department had distributed 8,101 quintals of wheat seeds in Jalandhar and Kapurthala districts (7,101 quintals in Jalandhar and 1,000 quintals in Kapurthala). In Jalandhar, seeds had been distributed among 5,882 farmers of the total flood-affected 8,417 farmers. While the process has been going on relatively smoother in Jalandhar where farmers said most of them were receiving the seeds, Kapurthala farmers said the process had been hit due to undue paperwork and denial of seeds to farmers with less than 4-kanal land. But despite the wait, many farmers have been devoid of seeds and poor farmers are badly hit. There are no anomalies in seed disbursal and all deserving farmers are getting seeds.”***Most Jalandhar farmers get seeds, process underwayKuldeep Singh, a farmer based in Janian Chahal village, here, said: “The Agriculture Department has disbursed the seeds among the farmers..