ITANAGAR: A day-long farmers’ training-cum-workshop on cultivation of exotic walnuts in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh was organized on Sunday by the horticulture department, sponsored under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH).
Speaking on the occasion, Tawang DC Kanki Darang asked the farmers to grow more horticulture products and apply scientific methods to increase the quality and quantity of fruits. He said that educated youths could play a lead role in marketing the products and encouraged the farmers to make self help groups to engage more people in the job.
“Government is encouraging one district to produce one product and under this mission Tawang district can do well in production of walnuts,” he said adding, timely pruning of fruit plants like Kiwi, Apple and Orange yields better quality harvest. He also shared his personal experience of farming.
District Horticulture Officer Safior Rahman in his address to the farmers informed that the state government under one district one product mission has adopted walnut cultivation in the district and for this, the government has provided more than fifty thousand exotic walnut saplings of different varieties, which has been already distributed to the farmers. He further informed that the exotic walnut saplings brought from Turkey have already started yielding fruits but for better yielding and longevity of the plants, the fruits borne in the first two years need to be removed.
He also informed that the expert walnut farmer from Turkey was supposed to be present in the workshop but due to technical problems he could not make it. Subject matter specialists from Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Tawang, resource persons from agriculture and veterinary department interacted with the farmers and replied to the queries raised by them during technical session, an official communiqué informed here.
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