{"id":10266,"date":"2017-11-15T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T10:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2017-11-15T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T10:58:24","slug":"need-to-tap-horticulture-sector-says-mehbooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/need-to-tap-horticulture-sector-says-mehbooba\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to tap horticulture sector, says Mehbooba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu,<br \/>\nThe state produces nearly 18 lakh metric tonnes of fruit annually, contributing to 70 per cent of the national fruit production. This was revealed by officials of the Horticulture Department during a meeting chaired by \u0007Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu.<\/p>\n<p>Mufti reviewed the implementation of \u0007various schemes in horticulture related to high-density apple plantation, walnut industry and village-specific fruit schemes.<\/p>\n<p>She was apprised that the state government had set up Mango, Orange and Anardana villages in Kathua, Reasi and Ramban districts over a cost of Rs 10.59 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Mehbooba underscored the need to introduce high-yielding varieties of fruit crops by gradual phasing out of old orchards. For this, she advised the departments concerned to adopt a joint mechanism with which the farmers could be incentivised and persuaded to take up plantation of new varieties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe introduction of high-yielding varieties of fruits, good connectivity to orchards to cut down the overhead costs, availability of cold chain and good marketing are the areas which need to be given attention to take the horticulture industry to a level where it \u0007can optimally tap the fruit requirement at \u0007the national level,\u201d Mehbooba said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, The state produces nearly 18 lakh metric tonnes of fruit annually, contributing to 70 per cent of the national fruit production. This was revealed by officials of the Horticulture Department during a meeting chaired by \u0007Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu. Mufti reviewed the implementation of \u0007various schemes in horticulture related to high-density apple [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10268,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}