Kashmir: Dir Agriculture inaugurates AAS, Farm Machinery Bank in Bandipora

The lab will provide state of the art soil testing facilities to the farmers of the concerned district.

The Director congratulated the department and said that the introduction of these latest facilities at DTSL will hugely benefit farmers and agri-entrepreneurs of Bandipora district.

With the inauguration of AAS at DLSC Bandipora, the department is making every possible effort to make the latest and advanced soil testing facilities available to farmers, he added

Iqbal said the analysis of soil is a critically important branch of environmental monitoring, the list of harmful chemicals is growing therefore a full spectrum of analytical technologies with the most accurate and sensitive analysis is needed.

Chief Agriculture Officer for Bandipora Mohammad Mujtaba Yahya gave a detailed presentation of the progress on the implementation of various centrally sponsored schemes in the district.

He also apprised the Director regarding various innovative interventions taken up by the Department in the district.

Yahya said that the Department has already achieved the target of soil testing /issuing of soil health cards to the farmers this  year and has issued 7,437 soil health cards to the beneficiaries.

Later, the Director visited intensive vegetable development cluster Shahtulpura Shadipora Sumbal and inspected various blocks of the vegetable cluster and also distributed farm machinery, including two tractors among the farmers.