Summary:
Kolkata: State Panchayats and Rural Development department provided training to the migrant labourers who had returned from Kashmir in 2019 to grow apple in Murshidabad. In October 2019, terrorists killed five migrant workers in Kashmir. Following the incident, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made arrangements to bring 133 migrant workers who had been working in Kashmir. The Panchayats and Rural Development department sent five migrant tothe Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research (IIFS) atModipuram in Meerut to grow Apples at Sagardighi in Murshidabad. As these workers had worked in apple gardens Kashmir they have prior experience in growing the fruit..