JAMMU:In an effort to ensure cultivation of available land near the International Border with Pakistan, the Jammu and Kashmir authorities on Tuesday held a meeting with security agencies that focused on productive use of the patches to add to the local food basket.
The meeting, chaired by Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, was attended by Shailendra Kumar, principal secretary in the agriculture production department; Chandraker Bharti, principal secretary in the home department; the Border Security Force’s (BSF) Jammu frontier Inspector General Shashank Anand; and deputy commissioners of the border districts of Kathua, Jammu, Samba, Poonch and Rajouri, among others, an official said.
The meeting was called to discuss different measures to help farmers take up for cultivation the land patches between the fence and the International Border on the Indian side, he said.