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Training programme on Bee Keeping concludes 9/3/2016 10:43:13 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: Three days training programme on Bee Keeping which was organized by the Joint Director of Agriculture (Extension) from 1st September 2016 to 3rd September 2016 concluded today in the Directorate of Agriculture Jammu in which 25 unemployed youth/ farmers from Jammu division participated. The programme was inaugurated by the Director of Agriculture Jammu Sudesh Kaul. Speaking on the occasion Kaul said that Bee Keeping and mushroom cultivation are the thrust areas of the department which create employment generation facilities for the farmers . He advised the farmers to take interest in the training programme, learn management of bee colonies as after the completion of the training programme bee colonies shall be given to the trainees on subsidized cost to establish their independent units. Malhotra disclosed that trainings shall be given to the trainees in three phases September, October and February 2017 to the same 25 numbers of trainees so as to make them well versed with the bee keeping and their management. He said that J&K is known because of white honey produced in the state which comes from a wild bush Plectranthus rugosus locally called Solai crop due to its colour, taste & aroma. He said that successful bee keeping is chase of flora. He said that against existing potential of 1, 25,000 bee colonies in Jammu division, at present we have 32,000 Nos. of bee colonies which means hardly 25% of existing potential has been utilized and there is vast scope of bee keeping in J&K. Practical demonstration was given to the trainees in the Apiary Yard at Raya by Sh. Nand Kishore Sharma, Dr. V.B. Singh & Dr. Rakesh Sharma from SKUAST, Jammu   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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