Srinagar, July 4 -- Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced that the Government of India will set up a Clean Plant Center and tissue culture labs in Kashmir to boost high-quality horticulture.

"We will prepare world-class, disease-free plants like almonds and walnuts to help farmers grow the best varieties," Chauhan said while speaking to reporters at SKUAST-K.

Chouhan said that clean Plant center will be established in Kashmir to provide farmers with high-quality, disease-free planting material. "Farmers need good plants like almonds and walnuts which must be healthy. In the Clean Plant Center, we will prepare the best varieties in the world," he said, adding that private nurseries will also receive subsidies and tissu...