Annual Report 2009-2010 - Department of Agriculture & Co-operation

States, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal
Pradesh, and Uttarakhand: The centrally
sponsored scheme on the Technology Mission
for Integrated Development of Horticulture in the
North Eastern region, including Sikkim (TMNE),
was initiated during 2001-02 and was extended
to the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal
Pradesh, and Uttarakhand during 2003-04. The
scheme aims at establishing convergence and
synergy among numerous ongoing
governmental programmes in the field of
horticulture development to achieve horizontal
and vertical integration of these programmes,
and to ensure adequate, appropriate, timely, and
concurrent attention to all the links in the
production, post-harvest management, and
consumption chain.
13.34 During the year 2009-10, an amount of
Rs. 349 crore has been earmarked, and an
amount of Rs. 183.83 crore has been released
under the scheme, out of which Rs. 141.73 crore
has been released to North Eastern states and
Rs. 42.10 crore to Himalayan states.
13.35 Under the scheme, the progress made
since inception and up to 2008-09 includes
bringing an additional area of about 4.94 lakh
hectares under cultivation with various
horticulture crops in the North Eastern and
Himalayan states, including fruits (3,03,667
hectares), vegetables (77,882 hectares), spices
(61,985 hectares), plantation crops (10,443
hectares), medicinal plants (6,079 hectares),
aromatic plants (8,640 hectares), roots and
tubers (1,540 hectares), and flowers (24,042
hectares). Under the scheme, -47 wholesale
markets, 264 rural primary markets, 64 apni
mandies, 18 state grading laboratories, 31 ropeways,
and 47 processing units in the North
Eastern states, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal
Pradesh, and Uttarakhand were established.
Besides, other infrastructure facilities, such as
nurseries, community tanks, tube wells, tissue
culture units, green houses, model floriculture
centres, mushroom units, vermi-compost units,
etc., have also been created.
13.36 During the current year 2009-10, an
additional area of about 32,498 hectares has
been brought under the cultivation with various
horticulture crops in the North Eastern and
Himalayan states. The share of different crops
is as follows-fruits (10,902 hectares), vegetables
(10,510 hectares), spices (3,078 hectares),
plantation crops (750 hectares), aromatic plants
(1,368 hectares), flowers (906 hectares), and
other horticulture crops.
13.37 Infrastructure such as markets and
processing units have been developed. 20 rural
primary markets are being developed, two of
which have been completed, and six processing
units are being developed, of which, three have
been completed.
13.38 Under the Mission, 67,329 women
entrepreneurs were trained on different aspects
of horticulture up to 2008-09, and 500 during
2009-10 so far.
13.39 Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH),
Medziphema, Nagaland: Recognising the
importance of institutional support for the
development of horticulture in the North East
region, a central sector scheme, the
Establishment of a Central Institute of
Horticulture in Nagaland, has been approved for
implementation in 2005-06. The Institute has
conducted training for farmers and state/district
horticulture officers, erected green houses for
the protected cultivation of fruit crops and
flowers,developed mother stocks for fruit and
vegetable crops, and has been engaged in other
core developmental activities over the last five
years. The Institute has been set up on an area
of 43.50 hectares.
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