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Centre approves Operation Green pilot in 8 states -Jitendra

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17 clusters have been chosen in 8 states to roll out the pilot of Operation Green, a Central scheme aimed to contain annual price distress of tomatoes, onion and potatoes

Nine months after announcing ?Operation Green? to provide the rightful price to farmer producers, the Union government has prepared guidelines to implement the operation. The scheme was devised to contain the annual price distress of tomatoes, onion and potatoes in regions with high production.

The Expenditure Finance Committee approved the proposal with some suggestions on how to pool funds. With an allocation Rs 500 crore by the Centre, the deadline of the scheme is March 2020. The Union Ministry of Food Processing and Industries has prepared the guidelines.

The operation was announced by the Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley on February 1, 2018 in the budget speech and claimed that the operation will provide support to horticulture crop growers. During campaigns for the upcoming Karnataka election, Prime Minster Narendra Modi also boasted about TOP growers as priority.

Earlier Modi constituted a committee chaired by Ramesh Chand, member of NITI Aayog to submit a detailed report on how to roll out the scheme to help TOP farmers.

Although tomatoes, onions and potatoes are consumed throughout the year across the entire country, farmers and consumers have incurred losses due to a lack of storage and transport facilities. This scheme aims to transport the vegetables from a surplus region to deficit region of production and also create infrastructures to increase storage processing capacity to increase shelf life. The government also decided to create value chains and processing industries in selected surplus region. NITI Aayog recommended that the government should begin on a pilot basis in clusters where productions are higher.

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