Chandigarh, June 6 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Friday launched a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-funded Rs.2,738-crore horticulture promotion project and laid the foundation stone for the Haryana agri-business and cold chain centre.

Addressing a programme organised in Panchkula on the occasion of World Environment Day, Saini appealed to residents to plant at least one tree, saying that environmental conservation must be transformed into a people's movement. The CM said that making Haryana country's leading state in horticulture, agri-business, cold chain infrastructure, food processing and agricultural exports is among the government's top priorities.

Present on this occasion were JICA chief representati...