Explanation:

Keen to boost fruits cultivation, Punjab Chief Minister announced releasing Rs 8 crore for setting up litchi and peer estate in the Gurdaspur District.

After meeting litchi, peer and guava growers, the Chief Minister asked the agriculture department to expedite the work to set up these estates which would be equipped with ultra modern laboratory, state-of-the art nursery and a pack house facility to ensure grading and packing of litchi and peer.

All efforts had been made to ensure that these estates were functional at the earliest so that farmers of the state could be benefited from it.
It will encouraging the farmers to adopt litchi cultivation.