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NHB working out feasibility of permitting mushroom crops on city roofs
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Wednesday, 22 October, 2014, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d The National Horticulture Board (NHB), in consultation with the ministry of non-conventional energy sources, is working on a feasibility study to permit mushroom crops on rooftops in urban and peri-urban residential areas with the support the residential welfare associations. This was stated by Rajender Kumar Tiwari, managing director, NHB.
Inaugurating the National Conference on Dynamics of Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in New Delhi, under the aegis of the PHD Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Tiwari said, “In the near future, residential localities, including commercial complexes, would have numerous solar panels installed on them for energy generations in them.”
“Under such panels, mushroom crops could ideally be cultivated with the cooperation of residence welfare associations by pumping in rooftops the waste water, littered and collected around such colonies,” he added.
“The residential associations need to identify farmers’ groups and outsource the work to suitable and the best bidders, for which financial and technical assistance would be provided by NHB and agencies identified by it, so that in the urban and peri-urban areas, horticulture is developed for a clean and green India,” said Tiwari.
In addition, NHB was aggressively marketing the establishment of vegetable and flower nurseries and working on a mechanism for their accreditation to promote vege- and floriculture, so that habitation is provided for in the urban and peri-urban areas, where the availability of land is becoming extremely scarce,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion, horticulture commissioner Dr S K Malhotra indicated that the government would set up a core group with representatives from the industry and multi-disciplinary governmental and non-governmental bodies, which would make recommendations for the promotion of horticulture in urban and peri-urban areas.
Others who participated in the conference included N M Kejriwal, chairman, Agribusiness Committee, PHD Chamber; Saurabh Sanyal, the Chamber’s executive director; Dr A R Pathak, vice-chancellor, Junagarh Agricultural University and Navsari Agricultural University, and Dr H S Gupta, director general, Borlaug Institute for South Asia.
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