To provide better marketing facilities to the vegetable growers at their doorstep in Jammu and Kashmir,the state government is setting up Apani Mandis under Technology Mission Programme. Disclosing this while chairing a review meeting of Technology Mission in the Agriculture sector in Jammu and Kashmir,Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir said that the government is endeavouring to develop rural primary market for progressive farmers to provide better marketing facilities to them. He said this would encourage them and also motivate the unemployed youth to opt it as a profession besides enhancing productivity,quality of produce and also improve farmers income. Under the programme,the village community have to provide 4 to 5 kanals of land,free of cost,for the establishment of rural market (Apani Mandi) for which funds would be provided under the Technology Mission,he said,directing Director Agriculture at Jammu and in Valley to submit proposals in this regard at the earliest.
