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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Laying stress on importance of constitution of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHS&NC), an initiative to empower Panchayati Raj institutions in the villages, Minister for Health, Horticulture and Floriculture Sham Lal Sharma exhorted upon the CMOs, BMOs and various NGOs to work hard for effective implementation of VHS&NC, a centrally sponsored scheme.

This was stated by the Minister after inaugurating a one day Workshop organized by J&K Rural Health Mission for re-orientation of CMOs, BMOs and NGOs for making Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHS&NC) Functional in Jammu Division here today.

In his inaugural address, the Minister informed the delegates about the importance of constitution of VHS&NC. He said that every VHSNC needs to maintain updated Household survey data to enable need based interventions which should be periodically reviewed by ANM/Sarpanch. He said Block level Panchayat Samiti will review the functioning and progress of activities undertaken by VHSNC. All those trained in this workshop will impart training to members of VHS&NC at Block level for smooth functioning of these committees, he added.

Dr P.C. Bhatnagar, Director Communicable Diseases RCC, VHAI Delhi was the resource person, who gave a detailed power point presentation on constitution, roles and responsibilities and accountability of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees.

Dr. Yash Pal Sharma Mission Director NRHM J&K, Dr. Madhu Khullar Director Health Services Jammu, Dr. Baldev Sharma Dy Director HQ Jammu, CMOs, BMOs, and NGOs of Jammu Division, Officers from Directorate Health Services and State Health Society attended the workshop.

Earlier, the Minister attended one day workshop on packaging of Dry fruit for cottage, Micro, Small & Medium Entrepreneurs organized by Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) in collaboration with Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India at Hotel Asia.

Anil Suri, Chairman Federation of Industries, Jammu was the guest of honour.Speaking on the occasion, the Minister exhorted upon the entrepreneur to ensure that only quality dry and fresh fruits are packed for export. He said that our state has the privilege of producing world class fresh and dry fruits like apple, walnut, almonds etc and thus it also becomes the moral responsibility of entrepreneur to ensure export of quality products.

The workshop deliberated upon basic concepts of packaging for Dry Fruits and Fresh fruits, flexible plastic materials for packaging of Dry Fruits and fresh fruits, design of corrugated Fibre Board Boxes for transportation of Dry Fruits and Fresh Fruits, Evaluating of packaging materials and packages Dry Fruits and Fresh Fruits, etc.

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