Kashmir Efforts on to link farmers produce to national market, says Kashmir's Agriculture Department Director
Srinagar: Altaf Aijaz Andrabi, Director of Kashmir’s Agriculture Department, said efforts are currently going on to link the region's farmers’ produce to the national market.
He said the move will enable them to improve their livelihood.
“The (Agriculture) department has envisaged a plan for the development of farming sector in the valley which includes maintaining timeliness in agriculture operations, increase production and productivity, reduce human labour besides providing better transportation and marketing facility to the growers and farmers to improve the farming community,” Andrabi told The Singapore Post.
He was speaking at a function organised to hand over the keys of two Bolero pickup vans to the farmers of district Budgam and Baramulla under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) scheme, reports the news portal.
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