Horticulture opportunities in rainfed areas

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2010-03-25

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Vol. 67 No. 01 (2010): Indian Journal of Horticulture

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  • J.S. Samra National Rainfed Area Authority, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India NASC Complex, DPS Marg, New Delhi 110 012

Abstract

Horticulture provides tremendous opportunities with high growth potential for enhancing nutrition, employment, income and livelihood securities. Food prices during 2009 a drought year have inflated by 20% mainly due to failure of vegetable crops and lesser yield from orchards in the predominantly rain dependent Himalayan region. The rainfed area covers about 60 per cent of the net sown area of India and this percentage could be 80-90% in some of the horticultural states like J&K, Himachal Pradesh, etc.

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Samra, J. (2010). Horticulture opportunities in rainfed areas. Indian Journal of Horticulture, 67(01), 1–7. Retrieved from https://journal.iahs.org.in/index.php/ijh/article/view/1720

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