Clean Plant Programme on Agriculture and Horticulture

1. Overview of Clean Plant Programme
• Clean Plant Programme is proposed Central Sector project where the
NHB will anchor the establishment of Clean Plant Centres in the country
• Aims to ensure access to disease free horticulture planting material for
global competitiveness of Indian horticulture sector
Objectives
• To enhance (i) yield of horticulture crops (ii) dissemination and adoption
of climate resilient varieties
• To protect ecosystem through proactive virus and disease control
measures
• To enhance stakeholder capacities for the adoption and operation of
clean plant production
• To improve knowledge network for sustainable operation of clean plant
centers & nursery certification programs
Total project cost is around Rs. 2100 Cr with 50% funding from ADB
over a period 7 years
Meeting with ADB on the programme
Clean Plant Centre
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2. About PEQ Facility
Post Entry Quarantine (PEQ) facility is to be establishment for imported planting material of Apple, Walnut,
Almonds, Date Palm, Grapes and Kiwi at 4 different locations i.e., Srinagar, Bikaner, Mukteshwar and Arunachal
Pradesh
By
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in their institutions
Genuine and disease-free quality planting material required for higher productivity
Key Aspects
• 1.37 crore planting material incl. Apple, Walnuts, Almond, Date palm, Grapes and
Kiwi to be imported in 5 years.
• 10.64 lakh planting material incl. Apple, Walnuts, Almond and Date palm to be
imported in the 1st year.
• PEQ Centers being established through ICAR in their institutes.
• Quarantined, disease free, quality planting material to be made available to the
states.
• Department is supporting creation of PEQ facilities in ICAR at Srinagar, Bikaner,
Mukteshwar and Arunachal Pradesh.
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3. Agri Infrastructure Fund
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4. Contract Farming - Transformation Through Public
Private Partnership - Andhra Pradesh
Case of Banana
• India’s share is 27% in global banana production and share in
exports is <1%
• Ecuador’s share is <5% in global banana production while global
export share is 30%
What happened in Anantapur?
• On the similar line; State Horticulture Department with the
support of Central government encouraged the private
participation in Anantapur with the utilization of the government
schemes and infrastructure.
• Farmers entered in the contract with the companies like Desai
Fruits, INI Farms, Mahindra Agri etc.
• Today, Anantapur banana export jumped from 246 MT in 2016-
17 to 45000 MT in 2019-20 and is further projected to export
75,000 MT by 2021-22.
• Also, 20% increase in productivity has been recorded and
average price of farmers’ produce is increased by 50%.
Plantation of Banana
Leveraging Drones for Banana Cultivation Bagging of Banana
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5. Contract farming in North Eastern Region
Industry mentorship with Parvata Foods
► 4 FPCs from Nagaland and 2 FPCs from Arunachal
Pradesh
► Supply of small processing units and quality
machineries worth Rs. 25 lakhs each
► Buy back assurance for all processed products
Machinery installation in Lower Dibang Valley Organic
Ginger Producer Company Ltd., AP
Contract Farming of Calendula & Red Clover - Manipur
2 FPCs engaged for dried
Calendula and Red Clover flowers
Worth Rs. 12 Lakhs
Convergence with Indian
Grassland and Fodder Research
Institute for seeds
Contract Farming of Perilla Seeds - Nagaland
2 FPCs engaged for dried
Perilla Seeds
20 MT worth Rs. 30 Lakhs
Convergence with KVKs for
true to type planting
material
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Nahar Organics
Live Organics

6. Case Study: Contract Farming (Potato) - Gujarat
• The penetration of fast-food chains such as McDonald's,
Wendy's, Subway, KFC, Burger King and Dominos took as an
opportunity by the Gujarat farmers.
• In 2007, Gujarat had only 16 acres area under the Santana &
Frysona varieties (desired for French fries), today it’s over 6000
acres.
• Gujarat has the processing plants of three companies - McCain
Foods, Iscon Balaji Foods and HyFun Foods about 1000 Cr,
which produce frozen potato products and exports them.
• Despite being the 4th in Potato production with (~7.5%), Gujarat
contributes ~26% of the total export by India.
• India used to import 6,000 metric tonnes of french fries in 2007. In
2019, India exported around 30,000 metric tonnes
• Investments from other big names like Amul has been flowing in
the state, 100 Cr processing plant inaugurated by Hon’ble PM,
‘Banaskantha’ being the recent example. Santana Variety field
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7. Expectations from the States
• Action Plans to be aligned with the horticulture priority crops such as
Cashew, Niche and Exotic fruit crops
• Timely submission of Utilization Certificates and Proposals.
• Focus on Post-harvest management infrastructure
• Mapping natural advantage of the states/clusters for development of value
chain-based cluster models.
• Value addition and processing infrastructure in Public Private Partnership
• Focus on Exotic and Indigenous Fruits.
• Introduction of Ultra High Density plantations with support structure like
Trellis for crops like Apple etc.
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