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POST HARVEST MANAGEMENT
Under Post-harvest management, including that for medicinal plants,

activities like handling, grading, pre-conditioning, packaging, transient storage,

transportation, distribution, curing and ripening, and long term storage can be

taken up.

This component include the projects relating to establishment of pre-

cooling units, 'on-farm' pack houses, mobile pre-cooling units, cold storage units

with and without controlled atmosphere capability, integrated cold chain system,

supply of refrigerated vans, refrigerated containers, primary/mobile processing
units, ripening chambers, preservation units and zero energy cool chambers.

These projects are entrepreneur driven and provided with credit linked back
ended subsidy.

FACILITATION-CUM-DEMONSTRATION CENTRES
24 Numbers of Facilitation-cum-Demonstration Centres across the division

at different locations provide a common platform to the orchardists/ Horticulture

entrepreneurs to showcase & sell their products along with the products

produced in departmental nurseries and Canning Centres. The facilitation

centres are digitally connected that one has to just register his demand such as

quality planting material, farm produce or canned products at the nearest

facilitation centre and availability shall be made at an earliest. In addition to this,

the orchardists can also register their grievances on these centres for their timely

redressal. Training is also being imparted to orchardists in the art of fruit
processing. This is proving to be a tool for socio-economic upliftment of farming

community engaged in fruit growing.

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