Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday addressed the inaugural session of the 6th J&K Agricultural Science Congress on “Diversification of Agriculture for Self-Reliant Mountain Agro-Ecology” at SKUAST Jammu.
He also, inaugurated the International Hostel of the University.
Lt Governor directed the Agricultural Universities to prepare a strategy for diversification, value addition, supply chain management and profitable market linkage for small and marginal farmers.
“J&K has diverse agro-climatic zones which provides ample scope of adopting farm level diversifications. With this scientific solution, we can mitigate the impact of climate change and will be able to generate higher farm revenue from the same piece of land”, he said.
Sinha said that Govt has initiated many steps including HADP, high density plantation, GI tags for niche products, agri entrepreneurship, new FPOs and developing educational institutions as a technical hub to support farmers.
