KARGIL//ZUBAIR TANTRAY
As part of the 75 years of India’s Independence (Azadi Ka Amrut Mahatsa) Executive Councilor for Agriculture, LAHDC, Kargil Mohsin Ali flagged off 42 farmers and accompanying officers from Agriculture Department Kargil to Leh for five days. Chief Agriculture Officer Kargil K.M.A.Khan, DAO Inputs Ashiq Hussain Basharat, DAO Extn Haji Mohd Iqbal, HQA/SNO Mohd Hussain Khan, DNO Kargil Razia Banoo, SDAOK Mohd Hussain, AA Inputs Mohd Ali Yabgo, AEO Kargil-B Mohd Abass were also present on the occasion. The EC flagged off the team of farmers and accompanying officers and showed his good gesture and offered his good wishes to the farmer for a fruitful tour to Leh.On the occasion, EC Mohsin appraised the CAO Kargil and Agriculture Department for organizing such exposure tours and advised the accompanying team to provide technical guidance to the farmers during the tour.He also advised them to motivate farmers to adopt the latest scientific approaches, techniques and innovations to improve their knowledge, attitudes and skill to cultivate all kinds of crops to get more produce and to generate employment and income from the agriculture sector. On the occasion, the CAO Kargil advised farmers to take full advantage of such exposure tours in which the department facilitates farmers to directly interact with top-level scientists and experts from Agriculture Research Institutions of UT Ladakh.He stressed upon the farmers to learn more and more through the basic principle of extension “seeing is believing” and “learning by doing” and practically adopt the scientific ways of crop cultivation for sustainable agriculture and entrepreneurship development by cultivating cash crops in their fields and generate income from it.The CAO also advised the farmers to visit Ladakh Green Houses at DIHAR Leh and practically visualize and also feel solar energy harnessing power of LGH for the production of fresh and nutritious vegetables during all long winter months in the cold arid region and adopt the latest innovation at the grass root level by each farmer in the district.In the end, the CAO also briefed farmers about their tour program and training schedules at DIHAR (DRDO), KVK-1 Leh and Mushroom Centre Agriculture Department Leh.