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India: Urban farming flourishing in Jammu

“We had grown 40,000 seedlings of Royal Selection onion, 10000 seedlings of XP-Red onion, 10000 seedlings of White Excel cauliflower, 15000 seedlings of REMI-F1 cauliflower, 4000 seedlings of Red Jewel cabbage.”

Bt Bivek Mathur
Rising Kashmir
December 13, 2022

Excerpt:

According to JC Raina, agronomist (Vegetable Improvement Scheme), the Directorate of Agriculture Jammu sold a record 1,200 bags of plants of exotic varieties last year only from its nursery situated at Talab Tillo, Jammu.

“This year the number of bags sold to individuals (for household farming) and farmers has increased manifolds,” Raina told Rising Kashmir.

He said that besides the Agriculture department’s nursery where the exotic vegetables are grown in a controlled atmosphere, there has been a sharp rise in the number of private nurseries being set up by the qualified youth of the region and farmers. “They grow exotic vegetables like red and yellow cabbage, gudiball cabbage, green and red lettuce, coriander, broccoli, Bok Choy, red and yellow cauliflower, and other varieties of vegetables, in different districts of Jammu province,” he said.

In order to meet the growers’ requirement of seedlings of the exotic vegetables, Raina said the Agriculture department has also set up a Naturally Ventilated Poly Greenhouse (NVPGH) on land measuring 3 kanals (1500 square meters) where 12 lakh seedlings were grown in the current year under the vegetable improvement scheme.

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