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Foreword



                                            “Success comes to those who work hard and stays with
                                            those, who don't rest on the laurels of the part”.


                                            Horticulture being a growth engine of Farming sector and a
                                            way  to  attain  nutritional  security.  To  meet  the  growing
                                            nutritional  demands  of  the  increasing  population
                                            supplemented with greater awareness among the masses
                                            on healthy diet, necessitates increasing the production of
                                            horticulture crops.


                                            Department of Horticulture has taken up various innovative
                 Ram Savak, KAS
                                            activities  like  High-Density Area  Expansion  Programme,
                 Director Horticulture      Cultivation of commercial crops like Strawberry & Aloevera,
                        Jammu
                                            Creation of Irrigation Infrastructure, Protected cultivation,
          Promotion of Organic Farming, Post Harvest Management, Inauguration of Facilitation-
          cum- Demonstration centres, besides introduction of exotic fruit crops.



                         Feeling extremely delighted to put forth the rst edition of “Horticulture Atlas of
          Jammu Division” the need of which was long felt. It has been divided into 02 sections the
          rst section deals with the Horticulture Maps of 10 districts of Jammu Division, showing
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          key fresh fruits and Dry fruits with area and production of each crop. While as the 2
          section deals with Strategies on Strengthening Horticulture Sector in Jammu Division.


                          I would like to record my sincere thanks to Sh. Navin Kumar Choudhary IAS,
          Principal Secretary to Government Horticulture Department for giving me this opportunity
          to pilot this publication. I congratulate the Horticulture Department team particularly Ms.
          Harpreet Arora, who has painstakingly produced this book and sincerely hope that it
          proves to be an effective compilation for administrators, policy makers, researchers and
          farmers in implementing various policies and programmer in the Division.











                                                                                         (Ram Savak) KAS
                                                                                              Director Horticulture
                                                                                          Jammu
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