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The Government of Punjab has performed brilliantly in the Scotch Award-2023 and bagged 5 semi-final positions including a silver award in the field of horticulture.
Horticulture Minister Chetan Singh Jaudamajra congratulated the officials of the Department on getting the Silver Award for Vegetable Center of Excellence (Indo-Israeli Project) located in Kartarpur, Jalandhar. He said that this center is helping to bring significant change in the lives of farmers by significantly increasing their income.
Here, on-farm cold room of 3-5 metric tons has been standardized which has brought huge profits to the farmers. The center is encouraging farmers to adopt pre-harvest technology to adopt crop diversification by providing income equivalent to 1 acre from 1 kanal polyhouse while helping to bridge major gaps in the value-chain.
Equipped with modern techniques of post-harvest management, this premier center of Horticulture Department provides training to farmers as well as technical demonstrations and door-to-door delivery of disease-free seedlings to farmers. The center also has a state-of-the-art hydroponics unit and a plant clinic laboratory. It may be mentioned that the Center has so far provided more than 2 crore disease-free vegetable seedlings to farmers across Punjab.
The semi-finalist projects include Agriculture Infrastructure Fund Scheme, Project Phase, Bifertilizer Laboratory Hoshiarpur, Sericulture (Development of Silk Production in Punjab) and Potato Center of Excellence (Indo-Dutch Project)-Dhogari, Jalandhar. These projects have been lauded for their innovativeness and for making a positive impact for all partners and contributing at the grassroots level.
The Scotch Group is one of the leading think tanks in India, which deals with socio-economic issues with a focus on all-round development. The Scotch Awards have been conducted at the national level since 2003 to recognize projects and organizations working on issues of national importance. These awards reflect the extraordinary achievements of the awardee organizations/projects for making significant contributions to society.
During the award ceremony held at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi, Agriculture Department Secretary Mr. Ajit Balaji Joshi, Horticulture Department Director Ms. Shalinder Kaur and Assistant Director (Horticulture) Mr. Daljit Singh Gill received the award on behalf of the Punjab Government.
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