Planting Material Scenario for Horticultural Crops

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Planting Material Scenario for Horticultural
Crops
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Background

• National Horticulture Mission was launched
  during 2005-06
• for doubling the horticulture production
  through holistic
• development of Horticulture, duly ensuring
  horizontal and
• vertical linkages, with active participation of
  all the
• stakeholders.
• Quality planting material is crucial for
• Area Expansion
• Replacement of senile orchards
• Export competitiveness

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Projected demand of various horticultural
produce by 2011-12
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Planting Material Where do we stand?
Demand to cover additional area (Fruits)
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Planting Material Where do we stand?
Demand to cover additional area (Vegetables)
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Planting Material Where do we stand?
Demand to cover additional area (Plantation crops)

• Calculation on area expansion is based on the
  trend of expansion during last decade and the
  targeted production level of 300 million tonnes
  by 2011-12 (area expansion under NHM have been
  targeted at 4.6for fruits and 6.1 for
  vegetables)
• However, productivity of horticultural crops
  remain the key to achieve the targeted production
  level.

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Rejuvenation targets for 2006-07
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Rejuvenation targets for 2006-07
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SHORT COMINGS IN NURSERERIES

• Scion shoots are taken from the orchards of old,
  disease infected trees or even from juvenile
  trees
• Rotation is not practiced in nursery
• Plants are multiplied in field
• Distant transport of plants with earth ball is
  tedious, expensive, less efficient
• Number of diseases and pests are carried with
  earth ball
• Least number of plants are multiplied per unit
  area
• Provision of source for rootstock had been
  lacking in most of the nurseries

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Current Status
Total nurseries 6339 Public Sector
1594 Private sector 4607 SAUs / ICAR 138
Top 5 states in Private Domain Maharashtra
1300 Andhra Pradesh 970 Himachal Pradesh
684 Jammu Kashmir 384 Gujarat 335
Top 5 states in Public Domain Madhya Pradesh
270 Jharkhand 157 Maharashtra
136 Chattisgarh 106 Orissa 92
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Current Status

• Model Nurseries (NHMTMNE)
• Total nurseries approved during 2005-06 1345
• West Bengal 259
• Karnataka 185
• Kerala 120
• Bihar 100
• Tamil Nadu 69
• NER 102
• A few states such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh,
  Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Orissa, are self
  sufficient in production and distribution of
  planting material in some of the crops.
• Other states out source the planting material
  from public and private nurseries

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Recommendations of National workshop on planting
material held on 23 October 2006

• -Formulate a uniform strategy for production and
  distribution of quality planting material which
  is essentially required to improve the
  productivity of horticultural crops by evolving a
  quality control enforcement system, to be put in
  place to ensure that only good quality planting
  materials are made available to the growers.

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• Review the status of existing system being
  followed by State Department of Horticulture /
  State Horticulture Mission including formulation
  / enactment of State Nursery Act.
• Evolve a system to be put in place to ensure that
  only good quality planting material is made
  available to the growers.
• Quality Control Enforcement by evolving a uniform
  system by legislating a Central Nursery Act.
• Explore the possibility of formulating uniform
  Nursery Rules for all the States / UTs under the
  proposed Seed Act, 2004.

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• Develop crop specific progeny blocks in the State
  Agricultural Universities and ICAR institutes.
  SAUs and ICAR Institutes should provide scion
  material to private nurseries
• A small proportion of the exotic varieties
  imported into the country need to be deposited
  by the importers at crop specific research
  institutes for developing a gene bank for
  enrichment of germplasm.
• A mechanism need to be evolved and made mandatory
  for procuring planting material only from
  identified sources to avail financial assistance
  from the Government Department.
• Model Nursery Act to be prepared by MoA and
  circulated to all State Governments
• Model nurseries need to be established by SAUs
  with funding under NHM, in order to make them the
  source of nucleus planting material and also the
  source of identified quality planting material,
  on a large scale.

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• Need to identify a central level organization to
  provide certification on par with ISO 9000, ISO
  14000 etc. for the production of quality planting
  material.
• Provision need to be made in the Seeds Act for
  the enforcement of quality regulations and to
  make provision for penalty and prosecution.
• Need to involve the nursery associations in the
  certification process and also procurement of
  planting material, for new varieties.
• A system has to be put in place for accreditation
  of nurseries by the committee comprising of
  Officers from the State Government, ICAR and
  SAUs.
• Small and marginal farmers need to be encouraged
  to establish nurseries with financial support
  from the centre. A network of such nurseries
  should be evolved as satellite nurseries which
  can be linked to main /major nurseries for
  ensuring continuous supply of planting material.

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• Progressive farmers need to be encouraged to
  produce planting material under strict
  supervision, so as to procure the planting
  material from them and re-distribute among
  farming community.
• Tissue culture units already established need to
  be exploited to the full potential.
• Need to plan well in advance the requirement of
  planting material for a particular period and
  accordingly place indents with the source
  organizations like the State Agricultural
  Universities, Research Institutions, Public and
  Private Sector nurseries.
• Evolving proper standards for transportation of
  planting material, to reduce mortality during
  transit. A suitable cool chain need to be evolved
  to prevent loss during transit. Besides, proper
  packing, handling, storage and transit facilities
  also need to be developed.

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• Inter State movement of planting material need to
  be regulated through the State mechanism to
  ensure traceability of source of origin.
• Once the State Governments register nurseries for
  procuring certified quality planting materials,
  it should be given wide publicity in media
  through its various channels viz. Television,
  News paper (local National daily) etc. so that
  growers/farmers could be aware of the
  authenticity of quality planting material, they
  have purchased.
• A Web portal need to be developed in order to
  link all certified nurseries and variety wise
  availability of planting material to ensure
  uniform supply in the country.

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Thank You