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Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

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<strong>Revitalization</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> In <strong>India</strong><br />

<strong>Draft</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> Recommendation<br />

Quality Mango graft from a reputed nursery<br />

Under this situation, the National Horticulture Mission has taken <strong>in</strong>itiative to specify Nursery<br />

Standards by specify<strong>in</strong>g Infrastructure required for sett<strong>in</strong>g up <strong>of</strong> Model Horticulture Nursery etc. With<br />

a view to ensure availability <strong>of</strong> Good quality plant<strong>in</strong>g material, National Horticulture Board(NHB)<br />

<strong>of</strong> M<strong>in</strong>istry <strong>of</strong> Agriculture (GOI) has started a system <strong>of</strong> Recognition <strong>of</strong> Horticulture Nurseries on<br />

voluntary basis(Sharma and S<strong>in</strong>gh,2016) s<strong>in</strong>ce 2009-10.Under this scheme, so far 1413 nurseries<br />

have been accredited till 2015-16 and these nurseries are expected to renew their accreditation once<br />

<strong>in</strong> two years.This accreditation system encourages healthy competition between recognized nurseries<br />

to reta<strong>in</strong> the accreditation vis a vis production and supply <strong>of</strong> quality plant<strong>in</strong>g materials. This system<br />

would def<strong>in</strong>itely help to ensure the availability <strong>of</strong> quality plant<strong>in</strong>g materials <strong>in</strong> horticulture crops. Still,<br />

farmers are to be suitably educated on the need to procure only the quality plant<strong>in</strong>g material from these<br />

recognized nurseries only besides the State Governments should also strictly enforce these standards<br />

by suitably modify<strong>in</strong>g their State Seed Acts on supply<strong>in</strong>g quality Plant<strong>in</strong>g materials.<br />

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