Tata Sons exploring investment opportunities in Kashmir’s horticulture sector

Tata Sons, one of the biggest business conglomerates of the country, is exploring investment opportunities in Kashmir’s horticulture sector.

In this connection, a team of Tata Sons is arriving inKashmir this week and has scheduled meetings with relevant government officersand different stakeholders of horticulture sector from Tuesday.

   

Director Horticulture, Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat on Sundaycoordinated a meeting in order to facilitate the interactions with thestakeholders of horticulture sector and field visits of the visiting team.

According to a statement, the coordination meeting held onSunday was attended by managing director, JKHPMC, director agriculture,Kashmir, President Horticulture Producers and Processors Association and otherstakeholders and officers.

Director horticulture, Kashmir in the preliminary meetingsaid that involvement of the private players for betterment of state economywill be an opportunity to work in private-public partnership mode (PPP) and theinvestment of the private parties will be a welcome step for the horticultureindustry.

Other issues related to horticulture industry were alsodiscussed in the meeting and the challenges before the industry in each segmentcame under discussion for their solution and role of the horticulture industryfor upliftment of the fruit growers of the state.

In the meeting it was decided that focus need to build onenhancement of productivity per unit area in all the temperate fruit cropsranging from apple, pear, cheery to walnut, almond etc, with the use ofquality/genuine root stocks and scion material for production of quality fruitcrops.

Kashmir has tremendous potential in horticulture sector foremployment generation and entrepreneurship ventures for the production ofquality fruit crops and its post-harvest handling for earning better returns bythe fruit growers for contributing to the GSDP of the state.

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