Question : Betel Leaf Research Centre

(a) whether the Department of Agricultural Research and Education under the Ministry will consider constructing a Betel Leaf Research Centre in Pugalur located in Aravakurichi in Karur Parliamentary Constituency;

(b) whether the Government will consider establishing a flower fragrance industrial park to promote flower cultivation at Manapparai located in Karur district of Tamil Nadu;

(c) the measures being taken by the Government to improve the growth of the horticulture and floriculture sectors across the country; and

(d) the details of the above programmes implemented in Tamil Nadu?

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
???? ?? ????? ?????? ?????? (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) There is no such proposal under consideration to establish a Betel Leaf Research Centre in Pugalur located in Aravakurichi in Karur Parliamentary Constituency by Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) under the Ministry.

(b) There is no such proposal under consideration to establish a flower fragrance industrial park at Manapparai located in Karur district of Tamil Nadu, since this subject matter is not under the purview of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

(c)
• ICAR has established 23 Horticultural Institutes/Directorates/National Research Centres (NRCs) and 12 All India Coordinated Research Projects (AICRPs) across the country to carry out research in Horticulture and Floriculture sector.

• The details of major activities taken by DARE towards growth of horticulture and floriculture during 2014-19 is at Annexure-I(A).


• Further, DARE is implementing a Scheme-Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), which is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for holistic growth of the horticulture sector covering fruits, vegetables, flowers and other areas.

• MIDH has five major schemes which are as follows:

? National Horticulture Mission (NHM)
? National Horticulture Board (NHB)
? Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States (HMNEH)
? Coconut Development Board (CDB)
? Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), Nagaland

• ICAR-Directorate of Floricultural Research (DFR), Pune and ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Floriculture (AICRP on Floriculture) with its 22 coordinating centres have been established to conduct research in floriculture to address the crop specific problems. ICAR-AICRP has a Centre at TNAU, Coimbatore.
• Major activities taken by ICAR towards improving growth of the Floriculture sector across the country are at Annexure-I (B).

(d) ICAR-AICRP on Floriculture has a Coordinated Centre at TNAU-Coimbatore which caters to the technological needs of the flower growers in and around Coimbatore. This includes technology generation, dissemination and also transfer of technologies through trainings, participation in Kisan Mela, Horticulture Shows.

*******