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- Adopting an end-to-end
approach covering production, post harvest management,
processing
and marketing so that the farmer gets appropriate
returns.
- ii) Promotion of R&D in technologies relating
to production, post harvest management and processing.
- iii) Enhancing the acreage of cultivation as well as
productivity through:
- Bringing more areas under horticultural plantations including
through diversification
from traditional crops and adopting cluster
approach for
suitable crops /
plantations.
- Adoption of measures to improve availability of quality seeds
/ saplings, fertilizers and
pesticides.
- Extension of appropriate technology to the farmers including
high-tech horticulture and Precision Farming.
- Improved irrigation, particularly micro-irrigation.
- Improving post harvest
management, processing for value addition and marketing
infrastructure.
- Coordinated
approach and promotion of partnership, convergence
and synergy
among R&D processing
and marketing agencies in the Govt. as well as private
sectors and between Central Government,
State Government and Sub-State
agencies.
- Promoting
NDDB model of cooperative approach to ensure support
and adequate returns to farmers.
- Strengthening
capacity-building and Human Resource Development
at all levels.
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