Written by: Express News Service
2 min readChandigarhApr 9, 2014 05:10 PM IST
First published on: Jul 18, 2013 at 05:19 AM IST
Approving an action plan of the State Horticulture department under the National Horticulture Mission (NHM),the Union Agriculture Ministry has sanctioned Rs. 75 crore for Punjab in the current fiscal to give further impetus to the state government’s ambitious ‘Agriculture Diversification’ programme.
A spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said under this plan funds would be provided to set up and maintain orchards,floriculture,bee-keeping besides installation of community water tanks,green house,cold stores and packs houses.
Concerted efforts were afoot to strengthen the infrastructure for the preservation of the fruits and vegetables which includes establishing two Centres of Excellence in the state including Centre of Excellence for Citrus at Khanaura in Hoshiarpur district at a cost of Rs 10.30 crore and Centre of Excellence for Vegetables at Kartarpur in Jalandhar district at a cost of Rs 9.73 crore. Both these centres were being developed by the Punjab Mandi Board in sync with the Indo-Israel agreement. In the current financial year plastic crates were being provided to the cultivators at a cost of Rs 150 lakh under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY) to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Besides National Vegetable Initiative (NVI),a subsidiary scheme of RKVY,has also been implemented in Ludhiana,Jalandhar,among others.
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