SRINAGAR: A five-year area and sector specific Action Plan will be formulated for the rapid growth of Agriculture, Dairy, Poultry, Vegetable, Pasture and Fodder Development, Animal and Sheep Husbandry, Fisheries and the other allied sectors possessing very high potential for generating employment and wealth in Jammu and Kashmir.
For this purpose, a Committee comprising the Minister for Forests, Minister for Agriculture, Minister of State for Animal and Sheep Husbandry, Vice Chancellors of both the Farm Universities of the state and the Commissioner Secretary, Agriculture Production has been set up to prepare the Action Plan in collaboration with all the concerned line departments.
A decision to this effect was taken at the 10th meeting of the University Council of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu, held at Raj Bhavan, here today under the chairmanship of Mr N N Vohra, Governor, who is Chancellor of the University.
Addressing the meeting, the Governor, and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is Pro-Chancellor of the University, emphasised the need for adequate utilisation of infrastructure, manpower and all other logistics and resources available with the Farm Universities for maximizing their outputs.
They stressed the need for taking all required measures on urgent basis for enhancing production of dairy, poultry, mutton and fish. They also called for more close coordination among both the Farm Universities of the state and extension agencies of the government for enhancing agri-productivity on sustainable basis.
Reviewing the intake capacity of the SKUAST-Jammu, the Governor said that every effort must be made to ensure that no seat in any discipline remains unfilled. Regarding the status of infrastructure development works of the University, the Governor asked the Vice Chancellor to take up the matter with the concerned executing agencies for ensuring timely completion of all these works.
He also emphasized for expediting all the required measures to facilitate construction of building for Maize Research Sub-Station at Sansoo, in Udhampur district in a time bound manner.
While reviewing the headway made towards establishing Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Samba, Udhampur and Ramban districts, the Governor asked the Vice Chancellor to pursue the matter with the concerned authorities for expediting possession of the land for the establishment of the KVKs, describing these as nerve centres for transfer of agricultural technologies to the farmers to progressively enhance agri-productivity and production in the state on a sustained basis.
