Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 4 : Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-J), today organised one day training cum demonstration programme on preparation of Bael Preserve for Rural Women and Unemployed Youth" under SERB DST, New Delhi project entitled, "Exploitation of under-utilized fruits of Kandi areas of Jammu region through value addition for human resource development" at village Badhori, Teh & Distt. Samba. The programme was aimed for profitable utilization of Bael fruit by making Preserve on scientific lines to fetch better market price for this value added products. In this training, about 50 rural farm women and unemployed youth from Badhori village participated. Dr. V B Singh, Incharge, RRSS, Raya, SKUAST-J at instigate of the programmeextended warm welcome to the participating rural women, unemployed youth, Sarpanch andPanch from the village Badhori. Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Principal Investigator, SERB DST Project started the training programme and gave details regarding the value addition of Bael fruit in the rainfed areas of the Jammu region and gave a detailed demonstration for making Preserve. The participants were apprised with this new technique of value addition of Bael fruit and its profitable economics; which is however, used only in religious purposes.
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