UDHAMPUR: Area Marketing Office Udhampur, Department of Horticulture Planning and Marketing organised a one day awareness camp/ seminar on "Strengthening Agriculture Marketing" here at Bal Nagar Jib involving farmers, SHG members and FPOs. Member Legislative Assembly Udhampur West, Pawan Kumar Gupta was the Chief Guest on the occasion.
Apart from a large number of farmers and SHG members, the program was attended by Area Marketing Officer, Anuj Verma; Senior Scientist SKUAST-J, Dr Munish Sharma; Sub Divisional Agriculture Officer Ajay Sharma; AEO Sanjeev Gupta; Manager J&K Bank Zonal office Udhampur Puneet Sharma; Chairman Kembal Danga Padamoo FPO Shashi Paul Sharma; AGMO Ramban Raju Zutshi; AGMO Udhampur Kamal Kishor; HDO Udhampur Ravinder Kumar and Vijay Attri MI.
In his address, the chief guest informed the gathering about the number of Central and UT Government schemes for farmers, unemployed youth and SHG females with subsidy up to ninety percent. He asked farmers and SHG members to take benefits of Government schemes and embark on the path of Prime Minister Sankalp of Viksit Bharat. Farmers were asked to adopt the latest farm techniques like crop diversification, Market diversification, grading & packaging, storage & processing so as to get good returns of their produce.
Earlier, AMO Anuj Verma briefed the participants about the flagship schemes of the government including PMFME, HADP, E-NAM, Support for Grading & Packaging, Pre & Post Harvest Technologies.
