MASROOR AHMAD
BUDGAM: The Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal on Wednesday inaugurated Hi-tech Polyhouses under vegetable clusters at Narkara Budgam.
On his visit, the Director monitored the Mushroom unit at Mamat, Shogapora Budgam where the first fully automatic Mushroom hi-tech unit in the Kashmir division was established with the capacity of 1800 bags in seven steps.
During his visit to the sub-division, he took stock of the agriculture scenario in the area, Soil Conservation Wing Potwan Budgam and inaugurated borewell.
Speaking to the farmers of different areas of the sub-division, Director Agriculture said that the department is working on an ambitious plan of providing farmers with round the year availability of seedlings of different vegetable crops and to achieve this goal, the department has established hi-tech poly houses in all the districts of Kashmir division.
Director Agriculture highlighted the importance of integrated farming and asked the farmers to diversify their agriculture operations.
The Director asked the farmers that the department would provide all the technical assistance to them in comprehensively performing their agriculture activities.
It is important to mention here, during the last financial year, 14 hi-tech poly green houses and 110 mushroom units were set up in the district. Moreover, five vegetable clusters growing organic, exotic and conventional vegetables have been established and all these efforts have been resulted in the export of 43,000 MT of vegetables, 53 MT of LalMirch/Red chillies and 200 MT of sweet corn from the district during 2022-23.
