SRINAGAR: The Centre today extended by two more years the Rs 371-crore National Saffron Mission launched in 2010-11 to rejuvenate saffron cultivation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The decision was announced by Union Agriculture Secretary Siraj Hussain who reviewed the implementation of the mission at a high-level meeting with State Chief Secretary B R Sharma and other senior Government officials at Civil Secretariat here, a spokesman said.
The State Government had requested the Centre to grant a two-year extension to complete the project in view of huge crop loss suffered in the floods last year.
Describing the National Agriculture Market Scheme as a “game changer”, the Union Secretary urged the State Government to speed up the necessary reforms needed for approval of requisite grants from the Centre for mandis under it. (AGENCIES)
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