Volume : VI, Issue : II, February - 2017

HORTICULTURE EXPORTS IN INDIA: A STUDY

K. Chaitanya

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 Under the changing agricultural scenario, it has been realized that the horticulture sector plays a vital role in providing livelihood security to the farmers globally. Area, production, productivity and export of horticultural produces are vital for increasing farm income and overall employment in the agricultural sector. The Indian horticulture sector is facing severe constrains such as low crop productivity, limited irrigation facilities and underdeveloped infrastructure support like cold storages, markets, roads, transportation facilities, etc. There are heavy post–harvest and handling losses, resulting in low productivity per unit area and high cost of production. However, on the other hand, India’s long growing–season, diverse soil and climatic conditions comprising several agro–ecological regions provide ample opportunity to grow a variety of horticulture crops. Thus, efforts are needed in the direction to capitalize on our strengths and remove constrains to meet the goal of moving towards a formidable horticultural growth in India. The foreign trade policy in 2004–09 emphasized the need to boost agricultural exports, growth and promotion of exports of horticultural products. Horticulture contributes nearly 28 per cent of GDP in agriculture and 54 per cent of export share in agriculture. The proposed study intends to examine the horticulture exports in India.

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K. CHAITANYA, HORTICULTURE EXPORTS IN INDIA: A STUDY, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-2 | FEBRUARY-2017

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