Ramban's high altitude areas to emerge as major potato seed producers in India

High-altitude areas of district Ramban like Gool, Mahu Mangit and Sanasar could become major potato seed producer areas and make the local farmers self-sufficient. To distract farmers from traditional farming and attract them towards modern, integrated and lucrative farming to enhance their income, the agriculture department has introduced various cash crops under holistic agriculture development program across the Ramban district. Fayaz Mehmood and Shahnawaz Mehmood, both sons of Mohammad Shafi Jaral residents of Jamman village of Sub Division Gool, are upbeat about the cultivation of organic sugar-free potatoes sponsored under the centrally sponsored Seed Village program scheme. They said after shunning traditional farming, in May 2021 they had jointly owned in their 2.50 kanal land, 2 quintals of Kufri Himani potato seed provided free of cost by the Department of Agriculture, in its first-ever initiative in Sub Division Gool of Ramban district . Fayaz Mehmood and Shahnawaz ...