MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
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(a): The details of the production of Fruits, and Vegetables, in each year of the last five years, in the country, State-wise including Odisha, is at Annexure-I and II respectively.
(b): To boost the production and productivity of fruits and vegetables, Government is implementing Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), for holistic growth of the horticulture sector. The scheme provides support for production of planting material, high yielding varieties of vegetable seed production, vegetable cultivation, rejuvenation of senile orchards, protected cultivation, and for adoption of Integrated Nutrient Management (INM)/Integrated Pest Management (IPM), organic farming, including insitu generation of organic inputs.
Besides this, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is undertaking Flagship/Challenged Projects to promote research in different Horticultural Crops to increase production of fruits and vegetables in areas such as crop improvement, crop production, crop protection and Post Harvest Technology.
(c): The steps include providing assistance for setting up of market infrastructure, mobilizing farmers into Farmer Producer Organization and linking them to markets, providing assistance for development of post harvest management and marketing infrastructure such as cold storages, cold rooms, packing and grading house, reefer vehicles, primary processing units, ripening chambers, etc., besides making farmers aware of the nearby processing facilities.
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Government also implements the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) for procurement of horticulture commodities, in order to protect growers of these commodities from making distress sale, at the request of the concerned State Government. The losses are share by the Central and concerned State Governments on 50:50 basis.
Besides, Government is implementing National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) scheme wherein online trading of agriculture commodities (including some horticulture commodities) is done for transparent price discovery for farmers for their produce through competitive online bidding system.
Also, through a new model “The Agriculture Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion & Facilitation) Act, 2017” , alternate marketing channels such as setting up of private markets, direct marketing, farmer-consumer markets, special commodity markets, declaring warehouses/silos/cold storages or such structures as market sub yards, are provided, to facilitate farmers in marketing their produce at competitive and remunerative prices.
(d): The Government is promoting research through Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) and associated Institutes to undertake basic strategic, applied and adaptive research on horticultural crops in the country. The ICAR is promoting advanced research in areas such as developing improved varieties, conservation of genetic diversity, protected cultivation for nursery production, micronutrient formulation, planting, material, conservation through Custodian farmers, transfer of taking to technology etc. Besides, regular scientists-farmers interface meetings are arranged to address farmers problems and steps are being taken to impart more post graduate teaching and research to more number of students.
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