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Strategy :: To achieve above objectives, the mission will adopt the following strategies: |
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Adopt an end-to-end holistic approach covering pre-production, production, post harvest management, processing and marketing to assure appropriate returns to growers/producers;
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Promote R&D technologies for cultivation, production, post-harvest management and processing with special focus on cold chain infrastructure for extending the shelf life of perishables;
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Improve productivity by way of quality through:
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Diversification, from traditional crops to plantations, orchards, vineyards, flowers, vegetable gardens and bamboo plantations. |
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Extension of appropriate technology to farmers for high-tech horticulture including protected cultivation and precision farming. |
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Increase of acreage of orchards and plantation crops including bamboo and coconut, particularly in states where total area under horticulture is less than 50% of agricultural area.
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Improve post harvest management, processing for value addition and marketing infrastructure.
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Adopt a coordinated approach and promote partnership, convergence and synergy among R&D, processing and marketing agencies in public as well as private sectors, at the national, regional, state and sub-state levels;
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Promote FPOs and their tie up with Market Aggregators (MAs) and Financial Institutions (FIs) to support and adequate returns to farmers.
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Support capacity-building and Human Resource Development at all levels, including, change in syllabus and curriculum of graduation courses at Colleges, Universities, ITIs, Polytechnics, as appropriate.
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