Jammu Tawi, Jan 10: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated Mega Fruit Plant Nursery at Chakroi, RS Pura here on Tuesday. The Mega Fruit Plant Nursery houses 50 different Blocks for growing mother plants of different fruits including Citrus fruits. Spanning over more than 800 Kanal area the Mega Fruit plant nursery will grow and provide saplings
Lt Governor inaugurates Mega Fruit Plant Nursery at Chakroi, RS Pura The Nursery will provide best technologies as well as true-to-type quality planting material that will reshape the Horticulture Sector in the area: LG This decade in agriculture & horticulture sector belongs to J&K UT. The policies through holistic development plan have laid the foundations for a sea change in J&K’s economic growth: LG Our effort is to make sub-tropical fruit cultivation a multi-faceted business by increasing efficiency of orchards […]
JAMMU, Jan 3: All the Major Canals of Jammu province i.e. Ranbir Canal, New Partap Canal and Kathua Canal including their network shall be closed from Jan 7, 2023 for annual desilting and repair works. The date of opening of the Canal shall be notified separately. As decided in consultation with Director Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Jammu, all the concerned Superintending Engineers and Executive Engineers are directed to take up all the closure works (desilting and repair of Canals […]
Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Dec 17: The J&K Advisory Board for Development of Kisans today convened board meeting under the chairmanship of it’s Vice Chairman and Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo. Professor J P Sharma, Vice Chancellor SKUAST, Jammu was also present in the meeting. The meeting had detailed discussion on present status of irrigation network in Jammu Division besides chalking out a workable solution for complete de-slitting and renovation of irrigation canals, minors and tributaries so […]
In Jammu Division canals and tributaries contribute about 94 percent of the total irrigational area, Ranbir Canal in Jammu and Pratap canal in Akhnoor while rest 6 percent is irrigated by wells, tanks and other sources. The 60-km-long Ranbir Canal starts from Akhnoor and ends at Dumi Malpur village in RS Pura tehsil. Initially apart for irrigation purposes, it was used for navigation purpose also to carry essential commodities from Akhnoor to Jammu and vice versa. Through its distribution system […]