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Director Agriculture Kashmir kick-starts Onion seed sowing at Kitchen Garden Lalmandi, Sgr
Srinagar, Aug 18: The Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal today kick-started seed sowing of Onion crop at Kitchen Garden premises Lalmandi, Srinagar.
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On the occasion, the Director visited different blocks of the kitchen garden and interacted with the concerned technical staff.
The concerned officers briefed the Director regarding various initiatives introduced by the Department for the optimum utilization of the different resources. It was informed that an estimated 15 lakh to 20 lakh onion seedlings would be made available to the farmers from kitchen gardens Lalmandi, Srinagar.
Speaking on the occasion, the Director said that early seeded crops will utilize available soil moisture in a better way. He said that early seeded crops avoid many insects and problems by beating the peak infestation or infection period and at the same time early seeding leads to early harvesting.
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He assured the concerned officers of every possible support for the successful implementation of the kitchen gardens programme. He asked the concerned officers to ensure that the farming community gets the seedlings of different agriculture crops including vegetable crops at the right time.
Later, the Director inaugurated the distribution of compost bags at Integrated Mushroom Development Centre Srinagar (IMDC). He directed the concerned officers to put in all the efforts so that more and more educated young farmers could be attracted towards the mushroom cultivation.
He said from the last three years mushroom cultivation is adopted by many farmers but there is last scope in this sector therefore all the necessary steps should be taken to ensure that more and more farmers take this enterprise on a commercial line.
The Vegetable market (Sabzi Mandi) in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district was Thursday gutted in a massive blaze, officials said.
An official said that the fire broke out in the wee hours today, left about 10 vegetable carts gutted in the incident, adding that vegetables worth huge amount got damaged in the incident.
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The official said that Fire and Emergency Services reached the spot and doused the flames with the help of Police.
The famous tourist destinations including Gulmarg and Doodhpathri experienced fresh snowfall on Thursday while rains lashed plains, bringing the mercury down.
Reports said that several areas of Kashmir received fresh snowfall, which include Gulmarg and Doodhpatri as well.
The weatherman has predicted light to moderate rainfall at most places and light snowfall over middle and higher reaches today.
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Meanwhile, the night temperature improved across Kashmir with Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recording a minimum temperature of 5.3 degree Celsius.
The mercury in Qazigund settled at 5.0 degree Celsius while in Pahalgam it settled at 1.5 degree Celsius.
According to data, Konibal and Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 1.0 degree Celsius each.
National Institute of Technology Dargah Hazratbal and Islamia College of Science and Commerce Hawal, Srinagar have suspended all academic activities for the day.
According to a communique issued by Principal, Islamia College, “The classwork of all the semesters and internal examinations, including T-series shall remain off today (30-11-2023) and will be rescheduled w.e.f tomorrow 01-12-2023.”
However, backlog examinations of 3rd semester shall be conducted as per schedule, reads the communique.
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Soon after the announcement of Islamia College, the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar also announced the suspension of classwork for today.
According to a communique issued by Prof. Atikur Rehman, Incharge Registrar, NIT Srinagar, “This is to inform you that the Institute will observe a holiday on Thursday, November 30, 2023.”
All academic activities, including classes, examinations, and administrative work, shall remain suspended on 30/11/2023,” reads the communique.
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