The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, visited the Central Temperate Horticulture Research Institute in Srinagar during his stay in Kashmir. Several prominent ministers of the state were also present with him on this occasion, including Ministers of State Ms. Shobha Karandlaje and Mr. Kailash Choudhary and Dr. Farooq Khan, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha were also present.
Let us tell you that the Institute organized Apple Day in the celebration of the Amatri Festival of Independence. In which the chief guest Tomar appreciated the intensive horticulture experiment done by the institute in the research area and called for connecting with more and more farmers while taking it forward.
What Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said (What Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Said)
Tomar, the chief guest at this Central Temperate Horticultural Research Institute under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, inaugurated the Krishi Vigyan Kendra under the Gramin Krishi Mausam Seva Yojana, an automated agricultural weather station set up at Baramulla, to issue agricultural advisory services to the farming community with greater accuracy.
In the program, Tomar said that under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the central government is committed to doubling the income of farmers by the year 2022 and many schemes are being run to achieve this goal. He appealed to the farmers for better application of technology to increase productivity, make agriculture a more profitable enterprise, better standard of living.
Special Emphasis On Scientific Strategy
An exhibition of 126 varieties of apples was organized on Apple Day, which was inaugurated by Tomar. Dr. Anand Kumar, Deputy Director General (Horticulture), ICAR, welcomed the guests and highlighted the major achievements of the institute and laid special emphasis on scientific strategy to meet the challenges of the future. Along with this, the director of the institute, Dr. Om Chand Shamay, told that the institute has also played a leading role in walnut research and has selected many specific genotypes. During the last decade, the Institute has supplied about 70 thousand saplings to the States/UTs of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu etc. in an area of about four and a half hundred hectares.
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Source: Krishi Jagran