{"id":2477,"date":"2022-10-11T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiaepost.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T03:36:35","slug":"department-of-information-and-public-relations-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiaepost.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/department-of-information-and-public-relations-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>PUNJAB<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IEP Chandigarh October 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Under the able leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann,\u00a0Punjab\u00a0government will establish horticulture estates in 4 districts namely Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Faridkot and Ludhiana, equipped with latest technological information and machinery etc to provide all the facilities to the horticulturists thereby helping them in producing high quality fruits and cutting cost of fruit production.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This information was shared today by Fauja Singh Sarari, Minister of Horticulture, Food Processing, Ex-Serviceman welfare and welfare of Freedom Fighters,\u00a0Punjab, during a meeting with Horticulture Department officials here at\u00a0Punjab\u00a0Bhawan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Addressing the heads of different districts in the meeting, he instructed them to bring maximum area under horticulture crops by motivating the farmers to come out of the current wheat-paddy crop cycle. He also asked the horticulture officials to create awareness to save the ground water which is going down day by day in\u00a0Punjab. He said that best performing officers in this regard will be honored at the state level.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He said that 40.00 lakh and 64.00 lakh liters per acre of water is consumed for the production of wheat and paddy crops grown in\u00a0Punjab\u00a0respectively, while only 17.00 lakh liters per acre of water is required for the production of horticultural crops. In this way, 86 lakh liters of water pr acre can be saved. The horticulture officials were instructed to prepare and send recommendation to give financial assistance to the land holders who bring the area under horticulture crops for saving water.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He also said that compared to water recharge in 57 blocks of\u00a0Punjab, up to 200 percent of water is being taken out and used for crop production, which is a matter of concern and proper efforts are needed to save water in\u00a0Punjab. He emphasised that by turning to horticilture\u00a0Punjab&#8217;s fertile land can be saved from becoming barren due to the present cropping pattern. He further informed that department is contemplating to establish one nursery in each district so as to provide quality fruit plants and seeds to the horticulturalists.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Minister asked the officers to promote the nurseries for Palm trees and other ornamental plants in\u00a0Punjab\u00a0as these plants sell at huge premiums and can be a profitable venture for the farmers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Horticulture Minister also informed that during the next 5 years, by bringing 1.5 lakh hectares under horticulture crops, 39772 crore rupees will be added to the\u00a0Punjab&#8217;s GDP.Under the scheme Agriculture Infrastructure Fund being run in the department, 365 crore rupees have been approved under this scheme due to new projects worth 1600 crores in\u00a0Punjab.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Horticulture Minister Sarari also informed that\u00a0Punjab\u00a0is the largest producer of potato seed in the country and keeping in view the future demand, an aeroponic unit and tissue culture lab will be established in Jalandhar with Rs.10 crores passed in the budget this year. He instructed the concerned officials to make this on an urgent basis.In order to streamline the functioning of the department Mr. Sarari also ordered for timely promotions of the employees. Grievances relating to employees must be disposed off in a time bound manner.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Among others present in the meeting includes Sarvjit Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture and Horticulture, Gaggandeep Singh Brar, Secretary Horticulture, Shailinder Kaur, Director Horticulture,\u00a0Punjab\u00a0besides Joint Director Horticulture, Dinesh Kumar and heads of all districts were also present in this meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEP Chandigarh October 10 \u00a0Under the able leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann,\u00a0Punjab\u00a0government will establish horticulture estates in 4 districts namely Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Faridkot and Ludhiana, equipped with latest technological information and machinery etc to provide all the facilities to the horticulturists thereby helping them in producing high quality fruits and cutting cost of fruit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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