Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management

1. Support under State Department Scheme
All the schemes of the State Government for horticulture development are being
implemented through the Department of Agriculture. Some important schemes that are
available for the nursery plant production are mentioned herewith:
� Horticulture plantation schemes is in existence since 1990 under the Employment
Guarantee Scheme under which the farmers are provided assistance for supply of
improved variety of fruit plants for commercial cultivation. Under this scheme the
farmers are supplied the fruit plants from various registered and licensed nurseries.
� The horticultural fruit plants are made available from the Government nurseries
operating under the Department of Agriculture at Government rates.
� Conversion of local mango, cashew, ber orchards into improved varieties. Support is
offered to farmers are growing fruit plants from local planting material for conversion
of local stock into improved and high yielding plants.
� Support for establishment of nursery under Private Sector is provided for individual
entrepreneurs, registered cooperative societies and quasi-Government Institutes. Here,
they are eligible for support to an extent of Rs 20,000/- with a production target of
8000 grafted plants.
� Assistance for rejuvenation of old and senile orchards is especially provided where
the orchards are old, poorly managed and have a very poor yield.
� Assistance to nurseries for installation of micro-irrigation system is also provided
which is a major scheme of Department of Agriculture for economizing the use of
irrigation water.
� Support for establishment of polyhouse and shadenet house for production of quality
planting material is provided. This support is provided for both types of (semiautomated
and fully-automated) polyhouses and shadenet houses.
� Assistance is also provided to nurseries for mulching the mother trees so as to
increase the supply of quality planting material by them.
� Support for multiplication of medicinal and aromatic plants and production of seed
material is provided to nurseries.
� Area Extension Scheme for Clonal planting material is available for assistance
especially with reference to extension of cashew plantation.
� Assistance to farmers is also extended under the Integrated Spices Development
scheme. This scheme supports cultivation of black pepper, clove, ginger and turmeric
crops.
� Support for cultivation of vegetables on small scale is available under Mini Kit
Vegetable scheme. This scheme extends support for use of improved and hybrid
varieties and other aspects of improved technology.
2. Support for Nurseries under National Horticulture Mission
Production and distribution of good quality seeds and planting material is an
important focus of the National Horticulture Mission. Most of the States have a network
of central or state assisted nurseries for producing planting material. For the new areas
coming under cultivation of improved varieties assistance is provided to setup new
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