Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.
“These machines have become all the more significant with the government declaring support price on the basis of parameters like staple length and micronaire value”
Developed after years of research by agriculture scientists, the much-hyped new RR-564 Basmati variety seems to have proven a failure in its first commercial utilisation in Jammu and Kashmir.
Tucked away from Himachal’s prosperous vegetable and fruit belt, Pangi is yet to grab the spotlight it deserves for growing organic fruits and vegetables in abundance.
Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.
The agriculture department is asking farmers to spray a dilute solution of groundnut oil on the papaya plant as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear. This ‘treatment technique’ has been developed by Moradabad farmers
Unlike other villagers for whom landing a government job was the ultimate dream, Bahadur Singh Verma of Saproon valley chose farming as a career for himself.
On Tuesday, as a convoy of 12 pick-up vans carrying different varieties of fruits from the Valley crossed the Kaman Bridge, fruit growers lined up on the LoC to see off the vehicles.
One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea — developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...
