The National Horticulture Board (NHB) has published revised compound guidelines of the Cluster Development Program to address challenges such as high losses after harvesting, inadequate infrastructure of the supply chain and price fluctuation in national markets. He has also invited an expression of interest (EOI) to appoint implementing agencies for the Cluster Development Program.
The selected agencies will be responsible for the development of both horticulture groups of multiple products of high -value components and groups of peri -urban vegetables, NHB said in the EOI document.
NHB had designed and implemented a pilot program in 2021 for horticulture crops and, according to the results, has redesigned the program developed by Cluster (CDP), which according to officials make these groups competitive worldwide.
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Through a scheme of the central sector, with an investment of ₹ 2,000 million rupees, distributed for five years, the center proposes to facilitate development or innovative vegetables or 50-100 km (≤50 km for the population and ≤8 or peckerhm or lak100 or LAK100 or lax urban centers. The scheme will be implemented impeccably in a subsequent way to those that are addressed to those that are directed to those that are directed to those that are directed to those that are directed to those that are implemented in an impeccably way and vegetables.
The implementation agency will ensure that at least 50 percent of the total annual product take -out for the supply in the cities under the project is produced by the farmers within the identified cluster limits. However, in addition to the upper crops, the cluster must have at least ten other horticulture crops, he thought it can add more fruits and vegetables on the list.
On the other hand, projects for groups of multiple high -value products (HMC) under the redesigned CDP scheme, will be selected unfortunately where authority will not make a prior identification of clusters. “The interested and eligible parties will identify groups, demonstrate viability and viability of the group of proposed within the largest framework provided in the detailed guideline and as described in the EOI document,” said NHB.
You can also propuse projects for development or existing groups or for induced groups (for crops that are currently not being cultivated in the area/geography identified by the applicant), he said.
A low HMCS horticulture group refers to a specific regional or geographical concentration, either existing or induced, or aimed at one or more crops and provides specialization opportunities in several stages of the management of the horticultural value, which includes, and Marktuding and agitating, and exceptions, and exceptions, and exception, and exception, and exception.
The government has also set the minimum value of the Annual Farm Gate (FGV) or the focus cultivation identified within the group to a minimum of 100 million rupees. The FGV can be calculated under a formula -acreeal × productivity × price, said NHB.
Some experts said that there are several crops that have potential to cultivate in many parts, and are not necessarily grown in a geography, so the criteria of 100 million rupees should have avoided. There are several automatically developed horticulture groups, long before the CDP scheme, when farmers select a crop based on the results of the innovation of another farmer and the government scheme such as CDP should facilitate instead of limiting.
However, guidelines can also be reviewed at any time according to the instructions of the Ministry of Agriculture, the sources said. There is a guide and cost standard committee, headed by the additional secretary by horticulture in the Ministry of Agriculture and Managing Director of NHB, its member secretary. Other members of the Committee are some private officers who deal with horticulture in the Ministries of Agriculture and Food Processing, as well as the Deputy Director (DDG, Horticulture) or ICAR.
The authorities said that India’s thought has achieved record production of horticulture crops: 352.23 million tons in 2023-24, in which the participation of vegetables is 58 percent and fruits is 32 percent, it has not matched the leg by volds.
Posted on April 21, 2025