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| 30 truck loads of garlic sent back from Chakan Da Bagh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 12- At least 30 trucks loaded with Garlic were sent back through the Chakan Da Bagh on Tuesday as the road was opened for cross LoC trade.
The decision comes after the Union agriculture ministry wrote a letter to the state government alleging that the garlic carried a pathogen that can prove dangerous.
The letter sent by the Union Agriculture Ministry's Directorate of Plant Protection to the officials of the Trade Facilitating Centre on Monday, impressed upon them to strictly disallow import of garlic, stating that pathogenic infection has been found in samples collected by it.
Though senior officials in the Poonch district administration expressed lack of knowledge over the issue, sources said that laboratory report of the samples of garlic earlier collected by officials of the Directorate of Plant Protection at Chakkan Da Bagh tested garlic as carrying pathogen infection.
Significantly, garlic has been one of the 21 items included in the list cleared by both India and Pakistan for trading between both parts of Kashmir.
The alert, sources said, is likely to cause a major set back to cross LoC trade as garlic was the major commodity being imported by traders on this side. A total of 35 trucks carrying garlic worth Rs 70 lakh were awaiting clearance across LoC for trading it into India through Chakkan Da Bagh on Tuesday, sources said.
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