Director of Agriculture Production & Farmer Welfare Jammu, K. K. Sharma, has inaugurated the first picking of seedless cucumbers (Multi Star RZ), which are being grown under protected conditions at Krishi Bhawan Talab Tillo Jammu.
A range of vegetable crops are raised here under Naturally Ventilated Polygreen House structures, using advanced vegetable cultivation practices for demonstration and popularization among the farmers.
Director Sharma said that every effort should be made to popularize high-tech interventions by the department for enhancing farmers’ income and attracting educated unemployed youth towards agri-preneurship. He stressed the officers to motivate the farmers to go for the production of exotic and high-value vegetables like seedless cucumbers, tomatoes, red and yellow bell peppers under protected and controlled conditions to get year-round production with high returns.
Source: indiaeducationdiary.in