Srinagar, Dec 03: The Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal on Saturday visit to kitchen garden lalmandisrinagar. During the visit director inspected various proceedings regarding raising of vegetable seedlings under controlled conditions.
While interacting with the officers and officials of the scheme Director said Hi-Tec and precision farming methods are being encouraged under a multiple strategy to promote kitchen gardening and to cover maximum area under vegetable cultivation in Kashmir valley is on top priorities of the department.
Director said that the agriculture department has undertaken a valley wide installation of the green house technology for protected cultivation of vegetable seedlings so as to enhance its production for meeting out the demands in local market.
Iqbal said agriculture department is in mission mode to promote the vegetable sector of valley and aims at providing more and more vegetable seedlings to the growers for achieving self-sufficiency in vegetable cultivation.
He said that the vegetable cultivation can be adopted for commercial purpose And it has good potential of employment generation and unemployed youth of Kashmir with the help of modern technologies and suitable agro climatic condition for vegetable cultivation can take this sector to new heights.
