Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 6: In its effort to facilitate the farmers to avail latest technologies available to increase their annual yield, army in collaboration with Department of Agriculture today organised a ‘mega Kissan Mela-cum-exhibition’ at Agriculture Extension Office in Wagoora area of Baramulla district.
The highlights of this mega event were series of awareness lectures and 20 display stalls providing a wide array of information on agriculture equipment and technology, Sheep Husbandry, Beehive, Mushroom, Pot plants, Sericulture, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry (including live animals with Disease Diagnostic Kit) and various loan schemes available to farmers from J&K Bank.
Apart from this, saplings of willow and popular trees and seed packets were distributed free of cost to over a thousand farmers & villagers who attended this event, he said. The Kilo Force Commander Major Gen AK Singh and other prominent officials from Srinagar and Baramulla districts interacted with people who had turned up in large numbers to benefit from such an initiative.
A series of lectures and demonstrations were organised to provide awareness and educate the farmers on the advancement, researches and development in the field of agriculture especially in the areas of low fruit productivity, diseases and pest control, awareness on solar energy, promotion of apiculture, loan schemes to the farmers and other related agriculture schemes.
“The Soil Testing Lab Van from the Horticulture and Agriculture Department further benefitted the farmers in knowing the condition of the soil of their farms and the measures to increase the fertility. The farmers were very appreciative about this exhibition and showed keen interest in understanding the nuances for betterment of their farm produce. The audience derived maximum benefit of this golden opportunity for a new beginning,” the spokesman added.
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