CoE - Centre of Excellence

Israeli Experts visited States of Haryana and Maharashtra (January 2008 to December 2010)

Field training of officers and farmers Centres of Excellence completed in Haryana and

under development in Maharashtra Technologies demonstrated

horticulture mechanization protected cultivation orchard and canopy management nursery management micro-irrigation Post Harvest Management

Import of elite planting material, rootstock of fruits and farm machinery

57 officers from States trained in Israel during Phase-I

STATUSNAME OF STATES

NAME OF PROJECT

Completed and Commissioned

Haryana  CoE of Vegetables and Fruits at Gharounda and Sirsa

Advanced Stage of completion

Haryana

Maharashtra

Centre of Excellence for Bee keeping and FloricultureCentre of Excellence for Mango, Citrus and Pomegranate

 Implementation Stage

GujaratHaryanaMaharashtraKarnataka RajasthanPunjab

Various Centre of Excellences and projects under implementation in a total fourteen locations

Total funds allocated under NHM Rs. 128 cr.

DPR stage Tamil Nadu Uttar PradeshBihar

Six Projects are under planning stage.

Nursery protocols for seedling production developed. More than 50 lakh seedlings sold

to the farmers for vegetables

Green house vegetable cultivation protocols developed for tomato, cucumber, capsicum and book published for farmers.

1st and 2nd Vegetable Expo organised in 2012 and 2013.

The Centre has achieved the potential productivity of 302 MT per ha in Tomato, 211 MT in Capsicum & 151 MT in Cucumber.

75 varieties of tomatoes (45 cherry & 30 regular hybrids), 14 hybrids of capsicum of 7 colours & 5 hybrids of cucumber have been demonstrated at this center.

On an average 50 farmers visit the Centre per day & during last year more than 16000 farmers have visited the center for exposure visit in the last two years.

Training to Extension officers and private entrepreneurs and companies.

Area covered during 2012-13: 132 ha under poly house and total 545 ha under poly house + mulching and tunnels.

Bankable projects for protected cultivation has been developed in collaboration with NABARD.

Sn. Component Physical (ha)

Financial(Rs. in lacs)

1 (Hi-Tech) (ha) 0.6 37.972 (NVPH+WIT) (ha) 110.59 3501.253 Shade Net House (ha) 21.53 659.15

Total (8) 132.72 4198.374 Mulching (ha) 383 38.575 Plastic Tunnel (ha) 29.55 54.33

Total 545.27 4291.27

High-tech Green House

-3 lakh root-stock prepared under soil less media for citrus

-50,000 Papaya plants produced

-10 lakh vegetable seedlings produced and sold to farmers

Insect Net HousesNo of units: 5Size 2000 sqm each

-50,000 virus free Kinnow plants produced and sold to farmers

-Target: 2013-14: 1.0 lakh plants

Cultivars   Area Covered

Mandarin Kinnow 10 AcreMandarin Imported from Israel(Easy Pealers)

Fremont Fairchild Murcot Michal Clementine Daisy Pearl Tangelo

6 Acre

Sweet Orange Group(Tight Skinned Fruits)

New hall navel Lane late navel Valencia Olinda Washington navel Fisher navel Jaffa Pine apple Mosambi Blood red Hamlin

6 Acre

Lime & Lemons   2 AcreGermplasm Collection

  1 Acre

Total   25 Acre

Crop Cultivars Area Covered

Olive Barnea Corotina Carolina Arbiquina

6 Acres

  Total 6 Acres

The action plan is intended to be implemented with technical assistance from Netherlands and cost of creation of infrastructure will be met from the existing components of NHM and HMNEH.