jj correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 4: Administration in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday stressed on the officers to provide unhindered access to the fruit laden trucks on Jammu-Srinagar National highway.
Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta on Friday stressed on the officers of the Agriculture Production Department to plan well ahead of the fruit season for giving unhindered access to the fruit laden trucks on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
Mehta was speaking in a meeting called to review the overall implementation of schemes in the Horticulture sector in J&K.
Chief Secretary also enjoined upon them to assist the farmers in fetching good price for their produce and asked them to look into the issue of fixing genuine freight for transportation of the cash crop.
The Chief Secretary emphasized on replacing the traditional senile varieties of fruit trees with the new High Density (HD) plant varieties which bear multiple times more crop than the traditional ones.
He advised the Department to visit the farmers and demonstrate to them about the benefits of adopting these novel varieties of fruit trees so that farmers readily go for this transformative exercise.
Mehta also asked them to extend the technical advice to the farmers in fetching the right kind of root stock and produce the same in their nurseries and distribute it among the farmers.
He urged them to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of such stocks by roping in the best of the players available internationally. UNI
