In a bid to encourage farmers to give up cultivation of narcotic crops, the Jammu and Kashmir government will provide incentives like seeds, fertilizers or cash for growing vegetables. An official spokesman said that Director Agriculture in Kashmir, Farooq Ahmad Lone said yesterday that incentive of 45,000 rupees per hectare of land will be given to farmers to convert narcotic belts into vegetable farms.The spokesman informed that Mr Lone was addressing a gathering of farmers during an awareness-cum-training camp organised by Farmers Training Centre, Department of Agriculture at Bijbehara and Anantnag in south Kashmir.He said, a provision of 45 lakh rupees had been made in the current year's plan under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) for the scheme targeted at covering 100 hectares of land. He said, the south Kashmir belt has emerged as a narcotics hub in the Valley with widespread cultivation of poppy and 'bhung' being undertaken by the farmers in violation of the Narcotic, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.