Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Kashmir Chapter today organized an international conference on Post Harvest Management of Apples at Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST) with an aim to     accessing International best practices to minimize post harvest wastages and maximize productivity.

Jenab Ghulam Hassan Mir, Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture was the chief guest at the occasion & Dr A R Trag, Vice Chancellor, IUST was the guest of honor.

Mr Sheikh Imran,Chairman CII Kashmir welcoming the guests said that the growers have to be assisted at different stages of cultivation along with the provision of state of art grading, packing, pre cooling and transporting infrastructure. 

Mr Mir Khurram, Proprioter, Harshna Naturals explained the benefits of Post Harvest Management Apples in Kashmir to Farmers in Kashmiri.

In the technical session Dr Luca Montanari, Vice President, Unitec SPA ,Italy shared a PPT in which he explained the process of Post Harvest Management in Italy and said that Kashmir Produces almost similar amount of Apples as Italy as a whole country does.

Dr Trag on behalf of the University welcomed the delegates and thanked CII Kashmir for organizing the event and hoped such events are held in future.

Jenab Hulam Hassan Mir, Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture, Government of Jammu and Kashmir welcomed the guests from Italy and hoped that Kashmir can work with Italy to help improve its apple management system and complimented CII & IUST for organizing the conference.