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| Orchardists should adopt latest technology for raising fruit production | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 2(KIP):-On the basis of the recommendations of the Estimate Committee of the state legislature, the state Government has taken in hand a scheme relating to the construction of new storages and for upgrading the existing ones.
Official sources said that since the state produced a number of highly perishable fruit including cherries, plums and peaches but there was need for building a chain of cold storages for preserving fresh fruit between harvesting and transportation to outside the state.
The committee also stressed the need for diversification of different fruit crops and increasing the production because when compared to the food grains fruit export alone could help the state's economy.
Experts said that the state of Jammu and Kashmir has always remained a consumer state by way of importing nearly 60 per cent of the food grains its people require. Against this the state exports fresh and dry fruit worth about Rs.1500 crores a year which includes foreign earnings of the tune of Rs.200 to Rs.400 crores.
It is in this context that the estimates committee has suggested to the Government, especially the Department of Horticulture, to adopt latest technologies for registering increase in quality fruit production.
The committee has also emphasized the need for setting fruit processing units on the plea that a major chunk of fruit would get damaged either on account of weather vagaries or owing to delay in its export.
Once there was some delay the same fruit could be utilised in the processing plant for manufacturing juices and jams.
However, the Government is yet to implement the Committees recommendations that groups of fruit growers and other farmers be taken to various states for acquainting themselves with the latest technologies involved in fruit production.
The Committee has called for effective coordination another departments of horticulture, agriculture and irrigation so that orchardists were given fertilizers and water wherever it was required.(KIP
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