Shopian: Deputy Commissioner Shopian, Mohammad Aijaz Asad, and officers of horticulture department, flagged off a group of 55 local orchardists for training and exposure visit to Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences (SKUAST)-Kashmir.
During the one-day tour, organized by horticulture department under the scheme MIDH 2017-18, the group of the orchardists from various horticulture zones of the district, would be imparted training and taken on exposure visits to Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences (SKUAST)Kashmir, to acquaint them with new techniques of horticulture production.
DDC lauded the efforts put in by the farmers of Shopian District who ensured manifold increase in Apple production this year. He said that District administration will try its best to provide exposure to the farmers of the district regarding latest technological interventions in the Horticulture sector.
