Agricultural economist and NITI Aayog member, Ramesh Chand, urged the All-India Spices Exporters Discussion board (AISEF) to attract up a ‘One District One Spice’ motion plan to advertise spice cultivation as a sequel to the Authorities of India’s One District One Product (ODOP) initiative, which was launched to gas the nation’s financial development.
He was addressing the delegates on the sixth version of the four-day Worldwide Spice Convention (ISC) organised by AISEF right here on Saturday.
The ODOP beneath Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Meals Processing Enterprises scheme adopts one district one product strategy to reap the advantages of scale by way of procurement of inputs, availing frequent companies, and advertising and marketing of merchandise.
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Chand stated the promotion of spices cultivation, being a high-valued crop, with the standard aggressive benefit is simpler. Out of the whole crop space of 200 million hectares on this nation, spices are grown solely in 2.2 per cent of the whole crop space, which accounts just for 4.4 million hectares. However the spices’ share in manufacturing by way of worth within the whole crop sector is 6 p.c.
“This is able to imply that spices, as a high-value crop, on common can fetch revenue thrice greater than the common of all different crops put collectively,” he added.
Chand additionally emphasised on the necessity to prioritise geographical indication (GI) tagging in spice cultivation. As an illustration, he stated, the turmeric grown in Meghalaya, having a subtropical and temperate local weather, is a magic spice however we will’t count on the identical high quality when it’s grown elsewhere. “Such dilution of high quality should be checked, in any other case the buyer world over will really feel that the claims on spices are exaggerated,” he added.
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Sanjeev Bisht, Chairman, AISEF stated, start-up-led digital disruptions within the agriculture sector have been witnessing a large push with quite a few start-ups which have stepped in to revolutionise the business.
Bisht added that India has greater than 1,500 plus agritech start-ups, rising yearly at a price of 25 per cent, empowering over 150 million farmers with data-led programs. India can also be the third largest recipient of agri-tech funding after the US and Germany.
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