Itanagar, Nov 19: A meeting relating to the Area Expansion Programme of Horticulture Department was held today here at Chief Secretary’s Office Chamber in Civil Secretariat.
In the meeting Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar directed the Horticulture Department not to compromise on quality of materials which will be distributed to the farmers under its Area Expansion Programme and asked to consider distribution of horticultural items (i.e., saplings, planting materials etc) to the districts as per success ratio of the crop in that particular district. To ensure 100 per cent success, he also suggested that soil testing may be done to check suitability of the land. Horticulture items ranging from various fruits, spices and aromatic crops like walnut saplings, blueberries, large cardamom, orange, ginger, king chilli, turmeric, cinnamon, areca nut, kiwi, pineapple etc will be distributed to the beneficiary farmers under the programme. CS further directed the department to work on organic conversion of horticulture farms and its products by obtaining required certification and provide technical support to the farmers by imparting them training and material support for achieving the target of doubling of farmer’s income.
The meeting was attended by Secretary Horticulture Bidol Tayeng, Secretary Finance Y.W. Ringu, OSD to CS G. Jaiswal, Director Horticulture Jhummar Rime and others. PRO CS

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