Sandip Das Surendra Nagar, Gujarat: DJ Parmar, the postmaster of Kukda village of Surendra Nagar district in Gujarat, besides handling letters and money orders, has now taken an additional responsibility. He will take orders from farmers for supplying of seeds prior to the forthcoming kharif sowing season. In the neighbouring Danawada village, post master VS Verma is also gearing up to take the additional responsibility for ensuring that quality seed reaches farmers on time. Thanks to the unique collaboration between the department of post, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) and oil exploration major Cairn India, an attempt has been made to provide quality seeds to farmers through the grameen suvidha kendra (GSK). Other services such as daily update on the mandi prices besides MCX spot and futures prices of various agricultural commodities, weather update, addressing technical queries regarding cultivation and arranging scientific warehousing facilities are being provided. At present, four GSKs operate in Gujarat from rented places taken up at the block level post offices where daily information sheets on prices from nearest mandis, bigger markets and MCX futures market rates of the key agricultural commodities of the region such as wheat, jeera, cotton, castor etc are prepared by Cairn India staff and handed over to the post offices. The post master of the block post office then sends the information sheet to each of village post offices same day which displays the prices on a board.