Institute for Horticulture Research to be set up in Punjab

Updated on: Monday, August 24, 2015

horti The Punjab Government had announced that it is going to set up a Post Graduate Institute of Horticulture Research and Education. This institute will be established at Amritsar.

If this institute come up, Punjab will become a top state in horticulture research and the crop diversification projects will scale new heights, said a horticulture department spokesperson in Chandigarh. The institute will develop growth of horticulture sector, which will cover areas of research, technology promotion and extension, post harvest management processing and marketing, he said.

He also said that the government is committed to provide basic helps to improve the productivity by quality germplasm and planting material. Government also wants to promote efficiency through micro-irrigation. These provisions come under the National Horticulture Mission. As a result, the horticulture production would improve to increase the farmers' income and improve nutritional security, he said.

In order to decide over the land allocation for the institute, a high level team which includes officials from state horticulture department and Punjab Agricultural University and Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) have visited half-a-dozen locations at Amritsar, near the mixed fruit orchard at Attari on the international border.

The team also has decided that the campus be set up near a city with sufficient available land nearby for research purpose, he said.

Institute for Horticulture Research to be set up in Punjab

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