NABARD has launched 30 days Skill Development Programme (SDP) for 30 females from Kokernag Sub Division. The programme was inaugurated by Deputy General Manager NABARD Surinder Singh in presence of District Development Manager NABARD Rouf Zargar. On the occasion Sub Divisional Officers from Agriculture and Horticulture Department, Project Coordinators of Human Welfare Foundation NGO were also present.
The training will focus on processing the fallen apple and vegetable towards the value addition such as juice, jelly, jam and pickle making. Inaugurating the programme, Surinder Singh, DGM NABARD said that there is tremendous scope of apple and vegetable processing in Kashmir keeping in view the availability of raw material and rural females need to be provided training in this sector thus enabling them to set up small units based at their homes or through SHG mode.
The programme is supported by NABARD and implemented through the NGO Human Welfare Foundation by engaging master trainers and involving food processing experts from the Horticulture and Agriculture
Department. The training will equip these females with necessary skill required for creating food processing units at village level and their produce can easily be marketed through the FPOs promoted by NABARD in the area, informed District Development Manager NABARD Rouf Zargar. He informed that the training shall comprise of theory and practical part shall be held at Processing Farm of Horticulture Department Achabal.