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Shade-nets usage in India
Existing penetration Over 5,000 hectares
Total potential area 1 lakh hectares
Life of shade-nets 4 years
Annual shade nets usage targeted as per 1,600 hectares
NHM state action plans (adjusted)
Average price Rs 10 to 22 per square metre (for GSM
100 to 200)
(or Rs 100 per kg)
Average GSM of shade-nets usage 140 GSM (50 – 200 GSM, generally
between 120 GSM to 180 GSM)
Share of applications other than 20% of total usage
agriculture in shade-nets usage
Total shade-nets consumption Rs 28 crore approx
Around 2,000 hectare or 2,800 MT
Source: Industry survey, NCPAH, NHM state action-plans, Report of the Working Group on Horticulture,
Plantation Crops and Organic Farming for the XI Five Year Plan (2007-12), IMaCS Analysis
In addition to the 7500 nurseries in India, about 2,830 new nurseries are expected to be established by
the end XI Plan under NHM (increase of around 6.5% y-o-y over the next 5 years).
As per Report of the Working Group on Horticulture, Plantation Crops and Organic Farming for the
XI Five Year Plan (2007-12), the crop wise requirement of planting material in various horticultural
crops has been estimated by a modest expansion of 4% per annum. Thus the total requirement of
planting material of fruits, coconut, cashew, black pepper, tree spices, areca-nut, etc is projected as
2,000 million by 2012 (around 1400 millions by 2002).
In fruit crops projected demand of planting material during 2007-08 is estimated as 7,145,841, which
will increase to 8,359,632 during 2011-12 (4% increase y-o-y). In vegetable seeds, the annual seed
requirement is expected to be more than 185 MT of breeders’ seed. The area under floriculture would
increase by 5,000 ha during the XI plan period the demand for planting material during the period
would be around 19,681 lakhs, which would require approximately 2,232 hectare of nursery area i.e.
around 400-500 hectare of additional shade-nets for floriculture nurseries per annum.
Though in the XI th plan, the area expansion for shade-nets is envisaged as 200 hectare (Rs 100 crore
in value terms) only, the state governments are expected to focus on increasing the usage of shade-
nets in their states. Since the average life of shade-nets is 4 years and the existing penetration of
shade-nets is over 5,000 hectare, the replacement demand of shade-nets in 2012-13 is expected to be
over 1,250 hectares. In addition, the incremental demand of shade-nets would be around 700-800
hectares per annum. Hence, we have assumed yearly growth rate of 6% for the shade-nets usage based
on incremental requirement of nurseries.
The current and future forecast of shade-nets consumption is given below:-