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WAY FORWARD

ESTABLISHMENT OF FARM SCHOOLS

Efforts are being made to establish Farmer to Farmer learning through

Farm Schools in outstanding farmers’ field. Such a land to land programme can

hasten the spread of skilled work in farming.
PERI–URBAN HORTICULTURE REVOLUTION

Urbanization in India is growing and the problem of food inflation largely
rises from the demand-supply gaps in urban areas. One way of stabilizing the

prices of vegetables and fruits in urban areas is to promote peri-urban

horticulture by providing the necessary technical and marketing support.

Considerable areas of land are available both within cities and near by areas and

they can be used to promote a peri-urban horticulture movement involving the

cultivation on roof tops and vacant land with fruit crops. This will confer a double

advantage-price stability on the one hand and sustainable nutrition security on

the other.

BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology, has the potential to increase productivity in fruit crops and

facilitate incorporation of genes for resistance to pests, diseases and abiotic

stresses and is set to play a critical role in fruit crops and livestock production by

enhancing yields, nutritional profile, stress tolerance and fruit crops protection. It

also helps in enhancing farmers’ profitability.
MOBILE APPS
Spreading horticulture related information to farmers has been made

easier by proliferation of mobile phones. Mobiles apps help to fulfill the larger

objective of farmers’ empowerment and facilitates in extension services which

can address the global food security issues.

FARMER PRODUCER ORGANIZATION (FPO)
The concept of 'Farmer Producer Organization (FPO)' consists of

collectivization of producers especially small and marginal farmers so as to form

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