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| Omar for making horticulture lucrative career for youth | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 19:Emphasizing the need for making horticulture and agricultural
activities lucrative, attractive and substantial, Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah Saturday called for motivating youth to seek career in these
fields.
“This would not only help them earn a handsome livelihood but help in
the economic growth of the State considerably”, he said adding that
the sectors of tourism and handicrafts are equally rich in the
potential of providing respectable and profitable self employment to
the youth.
Addressing a function after inaugurating Horti-Expo and Divisional
Fruit Show at Kala Kendra here, the Chief Minister said that a State
like Jammu and Kashmir which has great future in horticulture,
agriculture, tourism, handicrafts and allied sectors is confronted
with unemployment crisis calls for retrospection, awareness and
reformative approach.
“This is the area of concern needing focused attention”, he said and
asked all the stakeholders including government departments to make
youth aware of the potential available in these sectors for them to
venture upon and bring economic prosperity to them and the State. He
said there is something wrong which needs to be corrected so that the
young and educated members of farming community, handicraft families,
horticulturists, etc shun the inhibitions in taking up these practices
for career and economic progress.
Omar Abdullah said that during past some years there has been
considerable increase in the production of food grains and
horticulture produce.
He said that the horticulture produce especially apples, pears,
walnuts, almonds, amla and other citric fruit varieties exhibited in
the Divisional Fruit Show itself describes the growth and development
of horticulture in Jammu division.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Horticulture, Sham Lal Sharma
said that the production of fruit in the State during the last year
was 22.50 lakh tones while it stood at 13.50 lakh tones in 2008-09
adding that the State would achieve the target of producing 40 lakh
tones of fruit in 2014.
A large number of horticulturists from Jammu division had kept samples
of different varieties of dry and fresh fruits were on display in the
show. Some 50 stalls of agricultural appliances, dip-irrigation,
bio-fertilizers and insecticides were installed in the Expo in which
11 companies of national repute participated
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