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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ministry of Agriculture provides assistance to farmers of North-East and Himalayan States

Ministry of Agriculture provides assistance to farmers of North-East and Himalayan States

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published Published on Dec 5, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 5, 2011
-The Economic Times
 
The Ministry of Agriculture provides assistance to farmers for remunerative returns to farmers and to ensure adequate supply of fruits and vegetables to consumers, under National Horticulture Mission and Horticulture Mission for North-East and Himalayan States ( HMNEH). 

This includes assistance for cultivation, establishment of cold storages, setting up of terminal markets, wholesale markets and rural primary markets/apni mandies. National Horticulture Board is also implementing various schemes. 

Further, the Ministry has launched a new programme on Vegetable Initiative for Urban Cluster (VIUC) during 2011-12, under the aegis of the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY). The scheme is being implemented in one city each of 29 States having a population of one million or capital city. 

Harish Rawat, minister of state for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha said that prices of fruits and vegetables by and large are governed by the market forces of demand and supply. In addition to this, it also depends on prevailing weather conditions, cost of transportation, storage and rising demand due to increasing incomes, urbanisation, etc. 

"Fruits and vegetables being perishable commodity, the ministry does not have any proposal to fix its minimum support price. However, the it is implementing Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) on request of State/ UT Governments for procurement of various horticultural commodities. 

The purpose of implementation of MIS is to protect the growers of these commodities from making distress sales in the event of a bumper crop when there is glut in the market, causing prices to fall below economic levels/cost of production. 

Losses, if any, incurred by the procuring agencies are shared equally between the Central Government and the State Government concerned on 50:50 basis (75:25 in case of North-Eastern States),"he said.


The Economic Times, 2 December, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/ministry-of-agriculture-provides-assistance-to-farmers-of-north-east-and-himalayan-states/articleshow


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