While stating this here today, the Agriculture Minister, Harmohinder Singh Chatha said that the Centre would be set up to keep pace with the modern science.
Horticulture Bio-Technology Centre would produce Tissue Culture of horticulture crops of Banana, Potato Micro tubers, cutting of flowers crops and other horticultural crops.
Plant tissue culture which was a useful tool for the rapid production of many genetically identical plants using relatively small amounts of space, supplies and time would be extensively used for giving a major fillip to horticultural activities in the state.
The Centre would also cater to introduce the concept of DNA finger printing and popularizing the virus indexing technology.
The Minister said that the Department would also spend a sum of Rs 92 lakh for popularisation and extension of latest technologies in Horticulture.
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Shows, seminars and field days would be organised throughout the state to create awareness about latest technologies and to motivate farmers to adopt these practices in the cultivation of their horticultural crops.
Training and visits of Field Staff and the farmers would also be organised within and outside the state.
Furthermore production of quality planting material by bio technology especially through tissue culture would be given impetus. Similarly, good quality plants and seeds would be made available at subsidised rates, he added.