Haryana Government has formed a working group for study in the fields of horticulture, irrigation, agriculture and dairy technologies and to interact with Israeli experts in the areas of co-operation as envisaged under Indo-Israel Work Plan.
An official spokesman on Tuesday said that the working group has been constituted under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture. The members of the Working Group included Vice Chancellor, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Director/Director General Agriculture, Director General Horticulture, Director General Animal Husbandry, Engineer-in-Chief Public Health and Engineer-in-Chief, Irrigation. Mission Director, Haryana State Horticulture Development Agency would be Member Secretary. He said that the Working Group would submit an action plan in the areas of technology transfer, import of high-yielding planting material, continuous transport technology in horticulture, area of cooperation in the field of organic farming and bee-breeding programme and transfer of technology for use of brackish water for agriculture.
The group would also prepare an action plan for transfer of technology for use of sewerage water for agriculture, transfer of technology in the field of animal dairy technology and fisheries and setting up of unit in industrial area in Haryana to manufacture plastic film and micro irrigation facilities.