In order to bring commercial cultivation of banana in J&K, IIIM has conceived a new biotechnology driven programme.
This work was jointly done by IIIM, Jammu and Cadila Pharmaceutical, Ahmedabad. After full trial and established tissue culture and agriculture practice, Dr Ram Vishwakarma, Director IIIM, Jammu launched the J&K grown banana fruit .
While giving the detail of experimental works involved in growing the banana by tissue culture technique at IIIM, Dr Vishwakarma, flanked by Desh Ratna, president Agro Divisional and Narendra Brahmbhatt, GM Finance & Costing, Cadila Pharmaceutical Limited, Ahmedabad, held a conference here and revealed that the samplings of this high quality tissue culture variety known as Bhim Grand Naine (G-9) banana were brought from Agro Division of Cadila Pharmaceutical Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat and the first trial of cultivation over 2 acres land of field experimental farm Chatha has been successfully completed.