KATHUA, Feb. 25 -- In a significant boost to agricultural quality control and livestock infrastructure, Minister for Agriculture Production, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Cooperative and Election Department, Javid Ahmad Dar, on Tuesday inaugurated a state-of-the-art Pesticide Testing Laboratory and a Common Facilitation Centre (CFC) for Wool in Kathua district.

He also inspected the Fish and Poultry Feed Plant and the Rinderpest Checkpost at Lakhanpur.

The Minister said the Pesticide Testing Laboratory has been established at an estimated cost of Rs.481.25 lakh under NABARD funding. It is the second such facility in the Jammu division and the third in the Union Territory.

He said the laboratory will strengthen the enforcement m...