Jammu and Kashmir Govt will introduce a the new NPS-5 variety in September
After successful field tests of the variety have been concluded The Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Department will introduce a higher resistance and longer shelf-life NPS-5 varieties of mushrooms to be used in commercial cultivation in September this year. K.K. Sharma Director for the Department of Agriculture: "Our second strain is named NPS-5 (a type of fungus). We are developing the master cultivar. Seeds will be distributed to farmers in September of the following year (for commercial agriculture within Jammu as well as Kashmir)." The trial, he said, proved success. "It does not suffer from the presence of water in low levels, [...]