Under the arrangement -- accepted as 'Jammu Kashmir Arogya Gram Yojna' — the government's key R&D anatomy — Council for Scientific and Industrial Analysis (CSIR) — will advice the farmers with able advice and accommodate them saplings of as abounding as nine varieties of alleviative and ambrosial plants.
The bulb varieties, called for J&K, accommodate bristles altered varieties of auto grass (Cymbopogon), Rose (Rosa), Mint (Mentha), Ashwagandha (Withaniasomnifera) and Phalsa bake-apple plant.
Initially, 1000 villages of Kathua, Jammu and Udhampur in the accompaniment will be covered beneath the scheme. Similar schemes will be launched in added states, befitting in apperception clay condition, acceptable bulb varieties and admeasurement and blazon of acreage holdings.
Different CSIR institutions like Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT), Axial Institute of Alleviative and Ambrosial Plants, National Botanical Analysis Institute (NBRI) and North Eastern Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST) will be associated with the accomplishing of the scheme, aboriginal in Jammu and Kashmir and again in added states.
Launching the scheme, science and technology abbot Jitendra Singh claimed that farmers would be able to acquire Rs 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh per annum per hectare through the programme. In some parts, IIIM will alpha the activity on acreage leased/rented out by farmers on affiliation basis. Profits will be aggregate with the freeholder farmers proportionately, he said.< /p>
The axial government will initially absorb over Rs 25 crore on this scheme.
Elaborating on the scheme, Singh said, "This is a new abstraction whereby the agronomical acreage with the abeyant for advance of ambrosial plants will be articular and CSIR scientists as able-bodied as balm experts from altered genitalia of the country will brainwash and alternation the bounded farmers to accompany up this cultivation."
Asked the acumen to barrage the arrangement in his home state, Singh said one of the important affidavit to alpha this new arrangement from Jammu arena was that the IIIM, Jammu had been actively advancing analysis and assembly of ambrosial alleviative and perfumery articles for several decades and some of the articles produced from this class were of all-embracing consign quality.
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