Srinagar: Minister of State for Horticulture and Floriculture Javaid Ahmad Dar distributed cheques worth Rs 28 lakh among 62 growers of the floriculture sector under the RKVI and technical mission schemes of the Centre at a function held at the Emporium Garden here yesterday.
Expressing concern over lack of transfer of technology from laboratories to field, Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir today said he had directed the Agriculture Extension Department to cultivate maize in the irrigated and tourism significant areas like Pahalgam, Sonmarg, Tangmarg and Shopian.
When scientists of Sher-e- Kashmir Agricultural University of Agriculture Science and Technology (SKUAST) developed short duration wheat and maize varieties named Shalimar last year, it was a big step towards making Jammu and Kashmir self-sufficient in foodgrain production.
Scientists and agricultural experts have successfully used these varieties for crop rotation experiments.
Telling the farming community to make use of weather forecast and precision farming, Prof Anwar Alam, Vice-Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology- Kashmir (SKUAST-K), today said the same could be used to reduce loss in agriculture.
Under its special area demonstration programme, the Union Ministry for New and Renewable Energy has sanctioned a project involving over Rs 1 crore for the implementation of a project on demonstration of renewable energy at Raj Bhavans in the twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar.
Srinagar: To conserve, preserve and beautify pristine glory of the Dal Lake, an amount of Rs 2 crore is expected to be spend on 6,450-metre-long fencing of the lake. A colony will be developed with an amount of Rs 450 crore at Rakh-e-Arth here for the rehabilitation of Dal dwellers.
The long and worrying spell of dry weather in the valley ended today with many parts receiving rain and snowfall and the Weather Department forecasting rain and snow in the next 24 hours as well.
