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Vision 2030

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Title Vision 2030
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Creator R.C. Srivastava
S.K. Ambast
S.K. Zamir Ahmed
 
Subject Vision
 
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The agriculture in the A&N Islands is about 100 years old. Up to
the end of IV Five Year Plan, the major stress was mounted under
area expansion of agriculture to achieve self-sufficiency in food
grains. From V Plan onwards, the thrust was diverted from area
expansion to intensive agriculture practices and development of
plantations on the hilly slopes. Presently, the emphasis is on
increasing the area and production through crop diversification
from traditional food crops and optimum exploitation of cultivable
wastelands. The demand for produce from allied sectors like
horticulture, animal husbandry and fisheries far exceeds the
supply opening greater avenues for further development. Besides
ensuring nutritional security, these products have the potential
for exports in value added form. Diversification towards
horticulture and livestock therefore has to be very major
component to achieve expected growth rate under agriculture
sector. The major crop-wise distribution of the area is about 8139
ha under paddy followed by pulses and oilseeds during rabi, about
21760 ha under coconut and 4152 ha under arecanut. In agriculture sector the production of food grains, vegetables
and fruits has been far below the local demand. Consequently,
the Union Territory Government has been importing rice, wheat,
pulses, vegetables and other agricultural commodities from the
mainland recurrently. The gap between supply and demand
would increase as population of the island increases. This warrants
for concerted efforts to develop new agricultural technologies
suited to the specific agro-ecological conditions of these islands.
The effective transfer of technologies so developed to the farming
community is needed to improve sufficiency status in major food
items, particularly the perishable commodities and rice at
sustainable scale.In sum, A&N Islands are blessed with wide bio-diversity
and vast natural resources. Vision 2030 is an attempt to enlist the
potential thematic areas and analyse the strength and weakness
of this sectors to focus research activities so that the expected
outcomes can be delivered within the stipulated time to
developmental departments and other implementing agencies.
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Date 2019-04-06T06:56:44Z
2019-04-06T06:56:44Z
2011-06-01
 
Type Vision Document
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/17960
 
Language English
 
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Publisher The Director, ICAR-CIARI