{"id":109958,"date":"2021-06-01T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=109958"},"modified":"2021-06-01T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:57:30","slug":"union-minister-launches-horticulture-cluster-development-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-horticulture-cluster-development-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister launches &#8220;Horticulture Cluster Development Programme&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has launched the Horticulture Cluster Development Programme(CDP).<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Horticulture Cluster Development Programme(CDP):<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Horticulture Cluster Development Programme(CDP)<\/strong>\u00a0aims at growing and developing identified horticulture clusters to make them globally competitive.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A cluster <\/strong>is a group of enterprises. They are located within an identifiable and, as far as practicable, contiguous area and producing similar products or services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Agency: <\/strong>The nodal agency for the programme will be the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> National Horticulture Board(NHB)<\/span>. It will implement the programme as a Central Sector Component of NHB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Coverage:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers\u2019 Welfare(MoA&amp;FW) <\/strong>has identified 53 horticulture clusters. Of which 12 have been selected for the pilot launch of the programme.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Based on the learnings <\/strong>from the pilot project, the programme will be scaled up to cover all the identified clusters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>These clusters<\/strong> will be implemented through Cluster Development Agencies(CDAs). CDAs are appointed on the recommendations of the respective State\/UT Government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key Features of the Programme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, the programme will address all major issues related to the Indian horticulture sector. This includes pre-production, production, post-harvest management, logistics, marketing and branding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, the programme is designed to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">leverage geographical specialisation<\/span> and promote integrated and market-led development of horticulture clusters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly<\/strong>, the programme is expected to converge with other initiatives of the Government such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agriculture-infrastructure-fund-crosses-rs-8000-crore-mark\/\">Agriculture Infrastructure Fund.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of the Programme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The programme will benefit<\/strong> about 10 lakh farmers and related stakeholders of the value chain in the Horticulture Sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The programme is expected to improve<\/strong> the exports of the targeted horticultural crops by approximately 20%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, the programme is expected<\/strong> to attract an estimated investment of INR 10,000 crore. It is when implemented in all the 53 clusters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1723155\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has launched the Horticulture Cluster Development Programme(CDP). About Horticulture Cluster Development Programme(CDP): Horticulture Cluster Development Programme(CDP)\u00a0aims at growing and developing identified horticulture clusters to make them globally competitive. A cluster is a group of enterprises. They are located within an identifiable and, as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-horticulture-cluster-development-programme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister launches &#8220;Horticulture Cluster Development Programme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,956,9],"tags":[1314],"class_list":["post-109958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-agri_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701788128},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}