STATE TIMES NEWS
UDHAMPUR: Horticulture Department Udhampur organised one-day awareness programme for fruit growers under component Information Dissemination (MIDH 2015-16) at Majalta, district Udhampur on Monday.
Chief Horticulture Officer (CHO) Udhampur C.L Sharma was the Chief Guest on the occasion.
CHO deliberated in detail about the aims, objectives and schemes of Horticulture Department and stressed upon the farmers to avail the maximum benefits of these schemes for raising their standard of living. He assured the farmers that all efforts would be made by the department to arrange quality planting material from wherever it is available besides presenting a detailed account of the schemes and incentives being provided by the department.
District Level Subject Matter Specialist, B.V Gupta and SMS Salil Gupta were the resource persons who delivered technical lectures in the awareness programme.
Programme was attended by representatives of PRIs, prominent citizens and large number of farmers of the area.
