Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 19: J&K wool producer farmers can play an important role in providing fine quality of wool to woollen sector of the nation.
This was started by Dr. Romesh Khajuria, Chairman, Wool and Woollens Export Promotion Council (WWEPC) while interacting with Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) related to wool here today.
The wool producer FPO representatives returned back to Jammu after completing five days exposure tour to processing, woollen and wool blending industry in Delhi and Ludhiana.
Dr. Khajuria said that most of the wool produced in J&K is not in trade due to non-availability of wool processing infrastructure in J&K and wool producer farmers are throwing their produce as there is no market available to sell their produce.
He said that there is a provision in Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP) scheme for expansion of wool products and market development and the Government must implement the HADP scheme in its real spirit so that wool producer farmers can sell their produce and get the appropriate value of their produce.
Khajuria claimed that farmers get very low price of the wool sold in recently organised auction by the Sheep Husbandry Department in Kartholi, Bari Bramana which was even less than MSP fixed by the Department.
He stated that we have rich source of producing good quantity of wool but unfortunately most of the wool used in manufacturing woollen products by our weavers is imported from other countries.
Dr. Pritam Manhas, Principal at Training School along with other officials of Sheep Husbandry Department lead the exposure tour of 15 FPOs from all ten districts of Jammu division.
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