Prime Minister’s Development Package helping progressive apple growers in J&K
The situation of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) farmers is now better than ever due to the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP), announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015.Under the package, the horticulture department has set up apple orchards in the Union Territory’s Anantnag district to help increase the apple production and has lent a helping hand to an apple grower by giving him high-density apple plants under the PMDP which provides them nets, borewells and other facilities on subsidy.These high-density plants yield good results within two years of planting as compared to the traditional plants that give limited apple production even after ten years occupying large space.Under the scheme, the government promotes high-density plantations, phasing out old plantations which h...