Introduction of technology in farming

horticulture industry of UT of J&K is a vibrant activity involving more than 75% of population and  more than 7 Lac families are directly involved in the Trade But production costs and the actual quality yields have always been an issue.
our country has hardly 2% share in production World over production bases and hardly 2% of our total produce gets exported when on the contrary we import nearly USD 260 M worth of Apple in the country.
when techniques and technology were  labelled as irrelevant by farmers now same farmers are trying to chip in techniques and technology in their farming,one to arrest postharvest loses and another to avoid production costs.
The #main #aim is to #enhance  #production #quality #packaging to #improve our #exports .
Here comes the intervention of technology’s Be it #IoT #AI on various platforms. Be it Intello Labs InnoFarms InfyU LABS and now  Fyllo .
I  had the privilege of using platforms of Intello Labs InnoFarms  HFN at Kulgam and results have achieved the confidence of farmers, innovative enterpreuners and our local Starups .
Now our equally innovative Starup Orchardly® had tie-up with another agriculture Horticulture #starup Fyllo to use technology in farming to increase production.by more than 30% by arresting production costs and minimising use of inputs including water
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) Innovation:Lab

Direct marketing outside APMC yards.

The Administrative Council (AC) which met under the chairmanship of the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, approved ‘Regulations for the functioning of Agriculture Markets across the UT of Jammu and Kashmir’.

Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary, J&K attended the meeting.

The Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Produce & Market Committee (APMC) Act, 1997 ceased to exist after the operation of J&K State Reorganization Act- 2019.

This Board will manage and regulate the established Mandies in J&K and will remove the operational difficulties faced due to non-existing of statutory mechanism as on date. The Board will be headed by the ACS, APD and will have representatives of Mandies and Food Associations as Members as also other official members.

In terms of the new mechanism, Director Horticulture Planning and Marketing, J&K to declare any CA Store, Cold Store, Ware House with above 3 ton capacity and cooperatives/FPOs/SHGs, Store centers as sub-yards of Mandies for purpose of doing trade on e-Nam platforms and for making e-payments on the e-Nam Portal.

Director, Horticulture (Planning and Marketing), J&K will be the sole Authority to issue unified licenses for carrying out trade in any Mandi in the UT of J&K. It has a provision to allow outside J&K traders to do trade on the e-Nam with the growers and traders of J&K. For this purpose, the Director, Horticulture (Planning and Marketing), is allowed to recognize the licenses issued by the outside APMCs as valid licenses for doing trade on e-Nam portal on mutual understanding basis with other States/UTs.