To provide good quality vegetable seedlings throughout the year, the National Horticulture Mission (NHM) has joined hands with Israel to develop expertise in vegetable farming. The two nations started an Indo-Israel Centre for Excellence in Vegetables at NHM, Gharaunda near Karnal, in January 2011.
The project - spread over 15 acre and doing a business of Rs 55 lakh per annum - is close to Agrom SEZ at Gannaur providing easy market access to farmers. "The objective is to provide better quality seedlings to our farmers and to promote various types of vegetable crops through green house and poly-house farming," said Paramvir Singh, Haryana's agriculture minister.
Read more at: Economic Times
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