Tag: Horticulture

JAMMU, Apr 8: A chief horticulture officer in Jammu and Kashmir was arrested by the CBI while allegedly receiving a Rs 10 lakh bribe to resolve departmental issues, including a favourable posting and promotion of a junior colleague, officials said Saturday.The role of a senior officer in the Jammu ...

GANDERBAL, Jammu and KashmirFayaz Ahmad Dar, a sustainable development practitioner based in Indian-administered Kashmir, believes culture can’t be preserved in museums but by practicing it.Founder of Sagg Eco Village, which is a smorgasbord of eco-friendly food and activities, Dar says as a kid his father sent him to school ...

GANDERBAL, Jammu and KashmirFayaz Ahmad Dar, a sustainable development practitioner based in Indian-administered Kashmir, believes culture can’t be preserved in museums but by practicing it.Founder of Sagg Eco Village, which is a smorgasbord of eco-friendly food and activities, Dar says as a kid his father sent him to school ...

Calls for speeding up progress in different schemes to complete projects on time SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 12: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Agriculture Production Department (APD) Atal Dulloo today chaired a meeting to take a review of progress made under UT CAPEX, Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), NABARD and Deliverables 2022-23 in ...

Bharova, Khalo and Shanatra villages in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhaderwah, which were once considered poverty-stricken due to recurring drought, have made a mark in the horticulture sector by growing exotic Italian pears with a yearly production of about 1.5 metric tonnes. Unlike other places ...

Coca Cola’s CSR initiative is enabling reverse migration in Uttarakhand and is looking at increasing livelihood opportunities for over 500,000 farmers by 2025 with its Fruit Circular Economy initiative. Coca Cola launched the ‘Apple Unnati’ project in the state, with Indo Dutch Horticulture Technologies Pvt Ltd as its implementation ...

Farmers in Bhaderwah lack modern technology like disease forcasting system. Excelsior Correspondent BHADERWAH/JAMMU, Apr 3: Fruit growers of Doda district accused the horticulture department of having failed to provide them enough pesticides and information about disease forecast and other modern technologies, leading to loss of crops every season.Local authorities, ...

Walnuts grown in Kotranka Budhal Rajouri, Sept 10: In the wake of efforts by the horticulture department of Jammu and Kashmir and favourable climatic conditions, a bumper walnut crop produced in the Kotranka Budhal block of Rajouri district is ready to hit the market.The District horticulture officer of Rajouri ...

Implementation of Horticulture schemes reviewed in Jammu Jammu Tawi: The implementation of Horticulture development schemes in Kathua district were today reviewed here at a meeting chaired by Director Horticulture Jammu, Ram Savak. The meeting was attended by Chief Horticulture Officer, District Level Subject Matter Specialists, MCC Kathua, Horticulture Development ...

Initiates first-ever massive High-Density plantation drive by planting saplings at Akhnoor, targeting 25 lakh plants in Jammu Division Lays e-foundation for High-Density Mega Plant-Nursery; launches ‘Jammu Horticulture Mobile App’ & market linkage scheme ‘Parvaz’ for farmers Calls upon agricultural scientists & researchers to explore new possibilities and guide farmers ...