Foundation stone for ‘Farmers’ Training Center’ laid
JAMMU: Principal Secretary, Horticulture, Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare, Navin Kumar Choudhary, Monday laid foundation stone for establishment of “Farmers Training Centre” at Maralian, R.S Pura. Director Horticulture, Jammu, Ram Savak; Director Agriculture Kashmir Iqbal Choudhary, Director Agriculture, Jammu, K.K Sharma, Additional Secretary Horticulture Department, Jahangir Hashmi; Joint Director Horticulture, Jammu C.L Sharma, Chief Horticulture […]
DC Bandipora reviews progress of roads and infrastructure
BANDIPORA: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Bandipora, Dr Owais Ahmad on Friday chaired a meeting of officers to review the status of developmental works under R&B sector in the district. Meeting discussed formulation and submission of cities and towns plan through DDC and submission of projects under NABARD and discussed the core issues with regard to various […]
Director Agriculture reviews preparedness of seedling distribution
SRINAGAR: Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal Friday visited Hi-tech poly houses at Kitchen Garden premises (Lalmandi, Srinagar) to take stock of the preparations for the distribution of seedlings among the farmers and agriculture entrepreneurs. The Director visited different blocks of the hi-tech installation and talked to the technical experts and concerned officers. He was […]
DDC Anantnag reviews functioning of R&B, PMGSY
ANANTNAG: District Development Commissioner (DDC) Anantnag, Dr Piyush Singla reviewed the functioning of R&B and PMGSY departments at Dak Bungalow here. During the meeting, a thorough deliberation regarding various projects being implemented by the said agencies was held. Superintending Engineer (SE) R&B informed the chair that the department has completed 185 projects/ works and 43 […]
NAHEP-IDP SKUAST Jammu organises lecture
JAMMU: NAHEP-IDP SKUAST-Jammu and the Counselling and Placement Cell, under the guidance of Prof. J P Sharma, Vice Chancellor, organised online guest lecture for the students on “Introduction to Agri-preneurship and Startup Ecosystem”. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Sagar Deshmukh, Faculty (Agri-Business Management), MANAGE, Hyderabad. In his lecture, Dr. Deshmukh gave a comprehensive account […]
PRIs lead Special Plantation Drives on Republic Day
SRINAGAR: On the occasion of Republic Day-2022, the Department of Forest, Social Forestry and other allied wings organized plantation drives at various locations across all the districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The idea behind such plantation drives is to involve different stakeholders of civil society viz. common people, farmers, students, NGOs, Govt employees etc. with […]
Dastaq Digital Training Programme held at Shopian
SHOPIAN: As part of ‘Dastaq’, a digital training programme was Thursday organized at the Meeting Hall of Mini-Secretariat Arhama, here. The training programme was presided over by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Shopian, Mushtaq Ahmad Simnani. During the programme, unemployed Youth of the district were made aware about know-how of various schemes and were informed that a […]
HED, IIT to launch UT wide start up competition: Kansal
IIT Jammu to support degree colleges on hub, spoke model
JAMMU: 14 business plans have been shortlisted in a pitch deck competition conducted by IIT Jammu. These would be evaluated to yield the final list of projects. Besides, the entire process would be enlarged and a J&K wide start up contest would be organized jointly by the Higher Education Department and the IIT Jammu. This […]
Unregistered Insecticides: Director Agriculture Kashmir initiates campaign
37,800 liters of unregistered TSO/ HMO seized from Pulwama
SRINAGAR: Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal who is also Controller, Insecticides UT of J&K Monday initiated a valley wide campaign to curb the inflow of unregistered insecticides in Kashmir Division. In this connection, the Director reiterated the Department’s commitment against the sale of unregistered products (Insecticides). Expressing his views, Iqbal instructed the concerned Enforcement […]
Director Agriculture visits B’pora, reviews progress under CSSs
SRINAGAR: To review the progress on the implementation of different centrally sponsored schemes (CSSs) in district Bandipora, the Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal Saturday paid a brief visit to the district particularly Seed Multiplication Farm Sumbal and recently established Vegetable Farm Bandipora. The Director took stock of different preparations for the upcoming sowing season. […]