In Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha launched Market Intervention Scheme (MIS)-2020 for Apple growers at Horticulture Complex Raj Bagh in Srinagar.
The newly launched MIS is to facilitate the stakeholders by providing optimum prices to the growers in the region during the peculiar situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic.
The scheme will make way for procurement of 12 Lakh Metric Tonne of apples which will not only ensure profitability to the apple growers but at the same time, it will also create rural employment through supplementary services such as packaging, transportation.
The Lt Governor also called upon the farmers to set up Controlled Atmosphere Storage Plants with the help of 50% subsidy provided by the UT government.
