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| Awareness programme for orchardists conducted | | Jammu, January 11, (Scoop News)-Integrated Nutrient Management and Integrated Pest Management Practices is an integral part of increasing production in fruits and vegetables and in order to sensitize the growers, Chief Consultant, Dr. Om Parkash from Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India visited the Jammu Division and held interactive sessions with progressive orchardists in Jammu, Samba, Rajouri and Udhampur Districts. The stake holders from Horticulture Department also participated in these sessions.
The visiting Consultant had threadbare interactions with the participants wherein INM/IPM technologies were discussed so that these are applied in farmers field. The thrust area was adoption of low technologies like equipping the orchards with traps, stickers and inter cropping of those crops which facilitate farmer friendly bio agents to increase agro-eco system analysis. The other part of these technologies is to aware the farmers about establishment of low cost vermi beds to produce vermicompost which has proved a gold mine for increasing depleting soil fertility in farmers field. The vermicompost also makes available all the micro nutrients to the soil as well as to plants growth in the field. The participants showed great enthusiasm to learn these technologies especially for use of Trichoderma and Mycorhiza.
Director Horticulture Jammu, A.K. Sharma also accompanied the consultants in these districts and advised the field functionaries to get adopted to these technologies in the orchards so that farmers are benefitted by way of making soil enrichment and also increase in the production of Horticultural crops by reducing the indiscrimate use of chemicals.
The expert also visited some departmental nurseries at Vijaypur, Chimna Chack, Maralia, Garhi, Rajouri, Siot and Badola (Udhampur) and gave somevery useful inputs to the Departmental Managers to increase the production capacity of these nurseries.
Under MIDH, an amount of Rs.1200 per hectare has been marked as incentive for the farmers during current fiscal year for INM/IPM practices.
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