Budgam farmers get subsidy to install borewells for improved production
The Horticulture department’s prime motto is farmers welfare, self employment generation and women empowerment, says Dr. Md. Iqbal Baba, Chief Horticulture Officer, Budgam. We created a water source for the farmers as they did not have the water facility for irrigation, and they needed to sprinkle medicine in the fields. There are two schemes. PMDP- […]
B2V4 culminates; 35 departments participate, 101 deliverables attempted. Around 14000 dropouts re-join schools; 1 lakh Golden Cards issued, 50 thousand families benefitted
JAMMU, NOVEMBER 8: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta chaired a meeting with Administrative Secretaries here to review achievements of the recently concluded Back to Village-4 programme.Dr Mehta congratulated the Secretaries and their respective departments for successful culmination of the programme with most of the set targets achieved.The 35 participating departments were successful in saturation […]
Kulgam woman starts mushroom unit after leaving private job
I left my private job and decided to do something else. I saw in the media about mushroom cultivation and that got me interested, says Shazia Jehan, resident of Kulgam district in Jammu & Kashmir. She thought why not start a mushroom unit herself. Shazia contacted the Agriculture Department. She was trained for 10 days […]