J-K govt to provide special agri-training to youth

The minister distributed agriculture kits and certificates among the participants in the training course.

Faced with the challenge of providing employment to over five lakh educated youth,the Jammu and Kashmir government plans to provide three-month special training to youth with an interest in the agriculture sector to set up income-generating units.

“The government contemplates to provide three-month training to the youth having keen interest in the agriculture sector so that they could set up their own income-generating units for themselves,besides rendering better service to the sector,” Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir said at a function here.

Addressing the valedictory function of a two-day training programme on “Training and Pruning of Apples and Apricots” at the Central Institute of Temperature Horticulture (CITH) here on Tuesday,the minister emphasised that enlightening farmers about the latest agriculture technology developed by universities and institutions will ensure better quality and enhance production.

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“Jammu and Kashmir has vast potential of development in the agriculture sector,” Mir said,adding that efforts need to be made to make it a profitable and primary sector that would motivate educated youth to harness this potential.

Later,the minister distributed agriculture kits and certificates among the participants in the training course.

He also released pamphlets prepared in urdu for the awareness of farmers.

Earlier,the minister inspected the nurseries set up by the CITH for saffron and fruit plants in the area.

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