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Horticulture
is a field that deals with the cultivation of
fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices and Mushrooms.
Keeping in view the idea of overall development
of above said crops in the State of Haryana, the
Haryana Government had bifurcated an independent
Department of Horticulture from the existing department
of Agriculture in the year 1990-91. Since, then,
the Department of Horticulture, Haryana is concentrating
its efforts for the overall development of cultivation
of fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices and mushroom
in the state by ways of providing various valuable
information, incentives and guidance to the orchardists
of the state through its extension personnels
posted at block level and district level. Information
regarding various schemes run by the department
can be obtained by contacting Horticulture Development
Officers at block level, District Horticulture
Officers at District level and Directorate of
Horticulture at State level.
At present, the following development schemes
are being run by the department for the benefit
of growers in the state under Macro Management
Mode.
Scheme
for the Integrated Development of Tropical, Temperate
and Arid zone fruits
a)
Area Expansion Under this scheme there
is a provision of free assistance for planting
material and other inputs for the cultivation
of fruit crops as per guidelines from GOI from
time to time.
b)
Strengthening of Private Regd. Nurseries scheme
Under this scheme there is a provision for assistance
for the strengthening of private registered nurseries
running in the state under Nurseries Registration
Act.
c)
Schemes for integrated management of pest and
diseases There is a provision of assistance
on different type of plant protection equipment
like Knap-sack, Gatoor and other manually operated
spray pump for the control of insects, pest and
diseases.
d)
Scheme for the popularization of Improved Horticulture
Tools Under this scheme, there is a provision
of assistance for the purchase of improved Horticulture
tools for day to day use in orchards, tools like
scateur, pruning saw, Khurpis, tree prunner and
spades etc. can be purchased by the growers or
may be supplied by the department also.
e)
Training of farmers Under this scheme training
are being organized in batches comprising of 25
farmers each at Horticulture Training Institute,Uchani,
Karnal on different aspects of Horticulture Development
Technology from time to time. The period of training
ranges from 3 to 5 days. Interested farmers can
contact respective Horticulture Development Officer/District
Horticulture Officer of their block/district for
consideration their names for such trainings.
Scheme
for improving production of Hybrid Vegetable seeds
As Hybrid Vegetable seeds are very costly and
beyond the reach of common farmers, hence a scheme
under the above said heading has been planned
to popularize the use of Hybrid seed. Minimum
and maximum eligible area for the assistance will
be half to four hectares.
Scheme
for the development of Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants Under this scheme assistance will
be given on demonstration plot of 0.5 hectare
on planting material and inputs of medicinal and
aromatic plants.
a)
Drip Irrigation Keeping in view the shortage
of irrigation water and to conserve moisture,
the farmers are being encouraged to adopt drip
irrigation technology. There is a provision of
assistance/subsidy for the purchase of drip irrigation
equipments by the growers under this scheme as
per guidelines from GOI.
b) Establishment of Green Houses To raise
off-season seedlings and vegetable nurseries under
controlled conditions, the setting up of green
houses is must. Under this scheme, the beneficiaries
can get assistance for the construction of green
house at their field. Assistance is also available
for the purchase of Shading Nets and low tunnel
material.
Scheme
for popularization of Commercial Floriculture
In order to increase the area under flowers and
to boost up the income of farming community the
said scheme is being run under which the beneficiaries
are given demonstration plot of flowers like Gladiolus
and Marigold of 2 Kanal each in the form of planting
material and inputs.
Other
Activities of the Department Besides
from the above mentioned schemes, the department
is also running and maintaining about 25 Govt.
Garden and nurseries situated at various places
in the state. At these nurseries various diseases
free, pedigree, true to type fruit plants are
being produced from where the growers can purchase
plants of different species at nominal and Govt.
approved rates. The department also registers
private nurseries in the state. The growers who
have their own orchards of different mother plants
of different species and wish to start a nursery
production work can get their nursery registered
from the department under Nursery Registration
Act on submitting the application from along with
license fees of Rs.2000/-.
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