Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) approved an “Apple Cluster” for Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir under Cluster Development Programme.
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Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) approved an “Apple Cluster” for Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir under Cluster Development Programme. This was announced during a daylong conference on ‘India Cold Chain Conclave’, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in conjunction with the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi. The Shopian Apple Cluster envisages development of Shopian Apple on three verticals including pre-production-production, post-harvest management and value addition and logistics, marketing and branding to make it globally competitive. The project is estimated to cost Rs135.23 crore, of which, about Rs37.05 crore would be provided by the MoAFW as grant-in-aid. The project is expected to be implemented in four years.
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