Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 3: The Department of Horticulture Jammu organized awareness- cum-interaction programme regarding plantation of fruit trees in Khour block.
The team of officers led by Joint Director Horticulture Jammu CL Sharma, conducted farmers awareness campaign on Tuesday at village Narayani, Kotmaira upper Panchayat of block Khour, wherein District Level Subject Matter Specialist (Pomology) Sandeep Gupta, HDO Khour Amit Saraf, besides large number of farmers including women, Sarpanches and other PRI members of the area participated.
While addressing a large gathering of farmers / fruit growers, the Joint Director said that the goal behind organizing such camps is to promote awareness among our farming community regarding the various schemes of the department with special focus on plantation schemes. He said that the monsoon season is best suited for new plantation especially in the Kandi area and the farmers should adopt cluster approach in establishing new orchards, so that they can avail maximum benefits of the departmental schemes.
He urged farmers to adopt integrated farming in their fields and avail the benefits on different components viz: Aloevera plantation, bore well, water harvesting tanks, drip irrigation, mechanization, protected cultivation, tools and implements etc for upliftment of their socio- economic status. He emphasized on the need for establishment of individual processing units for fruit processing/ fruit drying/ spices preparation etc. for which liberal funding from government is available in the department. Women should also form their Farmers Club/ FPO’s / Self Help Group’s so that they can establish processing units on community level, he added.
Sandeep Gupta, SMS, elaborated in detail about both the Centrally and UT sponsored schemes of the department and also briefed the farmers about the technical aspects of fruit plantation. He laid emphasis on plantation of cash crops like Strawberry and exotic fruit crops like Dragon fruit in their fields so as to get more income from the same area.
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