Govt mulling merger of Wool Board, JKI

Principal Secretary Animal & Sheep Husbandry Asgar Hassan Samoon and Principal Secretary Industries and Commerce Department Navin K Choudhary Wednesday held a joint meeting to discuss the issues of J&K Sheep and Sheep Products Development Board and the establishment of Poultry Estates.

According to an official statement, the meeting was attendedby Secretary, Law Department; Special Secretary, Finance Department; DirectorAnimal Husbandry Kashmir; Director Animal Husbandry Jammu; MD, Jammu KashmirIndustries (JKI); MD, J&K Sheep & Sheep Products Development Board; JDPoultry, Kashmir; JD Poultry, Jammu and other concerned officials. The meetingheld threadbare discussion on the possibility of merger between Wool Board andJKI to ensure maximum remuneration to farmers, the statement read.

   

The role of Wool Board and JKI in procurement and collectionof wool and the interventions to be made for its value addition was discussedat length.

Samoon stresses upon the officials to carry out bettermarketing strategies so that the wool products manufactured in J&K get thebetter market in the country as well as in foreign countries.

The meeting also discussed about the establishment ofPoultry estate in Jammu and Kashmir. For this purpose, the concerned officialswere asked to identify the land.

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