Horticulture In India-Part I
March 2, 2008 by Arun Pal Singh · 3 Comments
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India, with its wide variability of climate and soil, has good potential for growing a wide range of horticulture crops such as fruit, vegetables, potato, tropical tuber crops and mushrooms, ornamental crops, medicinal and aromatic plants, spices and plantation crops like coconut, cashewnut, cocoa, etc.
Since the mid-eighties, the Government identified horticultural crops as means of diversification for making agriculture more profitable through efficient land use, optimum utilization of natural resources and creating skilled employment for rural masses, especially women folk with the past efforts rewarding. Read more
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