Jammu kashmir Generates Rs 7506 cr income by fruit production

The State has generated an income of Rs. 7506 crore by fruit production and its dispatches during last two years, revealed Minister for Horticulture and Floriculture, Sham Lal Sharma today in Legislative Assembly.

Replying to a question by Abdul Rehman Veeri in the House, the Minister said that keeping in view that horticulture is the mainstay of state’s economy, the government is paying focused attention on its development by long and short term measures.

The Minister said that post harvest management infrastructure has been strengthened in the State. He said terminal markets at Parimpora, Narwal and Sopore have been established, adding that 08 satellite markets have been made functional. He said to provide the platform to the growers of Jammu division for marketing their produces the work on development of Fruit Vegetable Mandis at Bishnah, Kathua, Batore, Akhnoor and Rajouri is in advance stage and would be made functional during next fiscal. Moreover, the department is also organizing weekly kissan markets in various localities of the twin cities for growers to sell their produce to the consumers at reasonable rates.

Sham said that government contemplates to establish terminal market at Bijbehara in South Kashmir. He said in this regard 440 kanals of land at Jablipora has been transferred to planning and marketing department adding that after completing all codal formalities the work on the project would be started.

Responding to the supplementaries by Ch. Ramzan, Syed Bashir, Abdul Gaffar Sofi, M. Y. Tarigami and Basharat Bukhari, the Minister assured that government is taking all necessary steps to promote horticulture in the state. He said linking production with marketing channels to achieve dividends. He said government is also working for covering growers under crop insurance scheme.

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