Director Horticulture Kashmir G. R. Mir today visited district Anantnag to take stock of the ongoing work at two departmental nurseries at Katertang in zone Bijbehara and Panzmula in zone khowerpora.
In katertaing nursery, Horticulture Department is going to establish a root stock bank and fruit plant nursery to cater the demand of the public in establishing orchards with diversified fruit cultivars.
In Panzmula nursery, department is going to establish post entry quarantine facility to facilitate the better plant material. During the visit, Director took the stock of various preparations and activities like development of land, creation of water resources and distribution of irrigation etc.
He emphasized that the work must be completed in twenty days of period.He was accompanied by Joint Director Horticulture Z. A. Bhat, Senior Technical Officer, DLSMS Anantnag, HDOs and other field functionaries.