Crop Production-Kashmir
Kashmir: BARC, SKUAST-K ink pact for using radiation technology
Srinagar/IBNS: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai and Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir have entered into a pact to bring in radiation technology to increase crop production.
The technology will be used in the agriculture sector for the development of new crop varieties through mutation breeding to increase the shelf life of fast perishable fruits and vegetables and develop new crop protection technologies for organic agriculture.
The two institutions signed the pact during a recent visit by the SKUAST-K team of scientists, headed by the Vice Chancellor Prof Nazir Ahmad Ganai to BARC Mumbai.
Director of BARC, Dr AK Mohanty, directed the scientists of BARC for developing protocols on the use of radiation technology for increasing the shelf life of commercially important fruits and vegetable crops and also for delaying the sprouting in onion, shallot and potato to aid J&K in the export of its farm produce with better market prices.
He also opined that the J&K government should establish a facility for irradiation of fruits and vegetables for increasing shelf life at a commercial scale to help farmers and traders.
Both the institutions desired to form working groups of scientists to address the different areas of application of radiation technology in agriculture.
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