 Early Times Report
Doda, Nov 14: Director Horticulture Jammu Ram Savak on Sunday conducted an extensive tour of Doda district. During the tour, he launched the plantation drive in district doda by planting a sapling of High Density lime plant in the in the farmer’s field at pyrote and assar in the presence of Chief Horticulture Officer Doda R.K. Kotwal, District Horticulture Officer Shakeel Ahmed, MCC B.B Pangotra, HDO’s, & PRI members.
As a part of plantation drive , all the districts of Jammu division started the plantation today covering an area of 60 hectares.
Director Horticulture Jammu also inaugurated the Mega Awareness Camp at Ramghar, Assar in the presence of BDC chairperson Assar, Smt Sulakshna Devi, BDC chairperson Kashtighar, Abdul ghani bhat, CHO Doda, Sarpanches, Panches and other officers & officials of the department wherein more than 200 farmers including women participated. While addressing a large gathering of farmers, the Director explained the farmers about the various centrally sponsored schemes of the department and urged them to come forward, associate with the horticulture department and avail the incentives on different components viz: Bore Well, water harvesting tanks, Drip irrigation, Custom Hiring Centres, vermicompost units, protected cultivation, Strawberry plantation, tools & implements etc. for upliftment of their socio- economic status.
He said that the district is having a great potential for horticulture crops which must be tapped and appealed the PRI and field functionaries to work in tandem for doubling the farmers income with special focus on area expansion, establishment of solar driers and processing units.
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