| Jammu, May 3: Secretary Bureau of Public Enterprises, Floriculture & Horticulture Sanjeev Verma convened a meeting to review the physical and financial achievements of the Horticulture department here today. The meeting was attended by the Director Horticulture Jammu Anil Kumar Sharma, Deputy Director Horticulture (Central), Chief Horticulture Officers, Deputy Director (P&S), Accounts Officer Directorate of Horticulture, Divisional Level Officers and District Horticulture Officers of Jammu Division. Director Horticulture apprised the chairperson about the physical & financial achievements made by the department during the financial year 2013-14 under different Centrally Sponsored Schemes and State Plan Schemes. It was informed that subsidy amounting to Rs. 11.86 crores was disbursed under different schemes during 2013-14. This includes 2558 Ha area under fresh Horticulture Plantation, creation of 73 units of water resources, 19431 sq mtrs of protected cultivation, 231 units of Horticulture Mechanization, 165 vermicompost units, rejuvenation of 176 Ha of old and senile orchards. "508 mobile demonstrations were conducted in fruit preservation/processing in addition to 569 people were imparted one Month training and 12 were imparted six months training to enable them to set up small scale units, official added. The meeting was apprised that nursery accreditation programme with National Horticulture Board, Government of India has till date granted accreditation to 39 nurseries in Public and private Sectors and cases of another 44 nurseries are under process. Record revenue of Rs 58 lakh was generated against sale of quality fruit plant/ crops from the departmental nurseries. Secretary Bureau of Public Enterprises, Floriculture & Horticulture Sanjeev Verma exhorted upon the district heads to gear up their field functionaries and work with team spirit. He advised Chief Horticulture officers to submit detail project reports regarding strengthening and upgrading of departmental nurseries, area/ crops specific plan for establishment of new orchard areas. He also stressed that department should work in close coordination with other institutes to utilise their expertise to improve productivity and to adopt new methods to improve quality of the produce. |
