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JAMMU SEPT-26- Director Horticulture Jammu M S Qasba today reviewed the progress of Technology Mission Program being implemented in Jammu and Kashmir at a meeting held here today.
Addressing the meeting, Qasba directed the officers to gear up their field functionaries and make sure that the benefits of all the schemes reach to the common orchardists and farmers.
Impressing upon the participants to work in their respective jurisdictions more effectively, the Director felt the need for maintaining close contacts with the farming community to make them aware about various incentives being provided by the Government for promotion of horticulture industry in thre state. He called for holding farmers' awareness camps more frequently for updating the knowledge of the farming community.
It was disclosed at the meeting that 457 hectares have been brought under new orchards in Jammu district by planning over 6000 fruit plants of Mango, Citrus, Anole, Guava and Litchi. For the first time, 150 Raj Harad plants, having medicinal value, were planted over an area of 1.15 hectares in Dansal block. Thirty water harvesting tanks involving Rs.30 lakh and125 shallow bore and dug wells are being constructed in the orchards in Jammu during the current fiscal while 50 poly green houses shall also be constructed during this period, the meeting was told. |
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