LAHDC allots 1499 kanal land to SKUAST

A meeting of Executive Councilors was held under the chairmanship of Chief Executive Councilor, LAHDC, Rigzin Spalbar.

In the meeting, it was resolved that 1499 kanal of land will be allotted to SKUAST for the establishment of Kirshi Vigayan Kendra at Nyoma for development of agriculture and pasture land. The meeting also regularized households of Ibex Colony, Leh and 461 households of Leh area, which was the long pending case.

For construction of Degree College at Nubra Diskit, the council allotted 150 kanal of land at Diskit. The council also allotted 99 kanal of land for construction of Inter State Bus Terminal near Housing Colony, TCP.

The executive meeting gave approval for declaring holiday on 15 day of first Tibetan month and also revived the decisions taken in the last EC’s meeting.

Another successful effort of SKUAST

SKUAST Jammu under the leadership of Vice Chancellor, Dr B Mishra after glaring success of increasing production of rain fed farmers at Badodi village has made another successful effort in bringing of 10 ha rainfed and dry area of Nai Akhnoor in a production mode.

According to a SKUAST release for the first time 10 farmers of village Nai Basti and Akhnoor have been brought in "Joint Liability Group’’ where in their total 10 ha pooled land has been designed for drip and sprinkler irrigation under the ICAR project entitled Technology Refinement in Micro Irrigation and Fertigation for improving the quality and productivity of important crops in rainfed areas of Jammu.

The project is run under the supervision of Dr Dileep Kachroo, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist, Farming System Research Centre, SKUAST, Jammu.

The Horticulture Department has already established bore well and Dr Kachroo with the help of Director Horticulture, Jammu has identified these farmers under "Farmer-Scientist Research Mode’’. The land brought under mango orchard has been properly designed and put under drip irrigation whereas the in- between plantation land has been intercropped with various vegetables and wheat /mustard cultivation.

The farmers are happy over the new experiment which has brought cheerfulness on their faces.