National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif Campaign 7th – 8th April, 2015 Horticulture Department, Haryana

Physical & Financial Achievement during the year 2014-15 (up to 28. 02 Sn Item Area (Ha) Production (Lakh MTs) Targets Achievement 1 Fruits Additional Area Total Area 1940 52535 1396 51991 6.50 6.06 2 Vegetables 375000 357680 60.00 49.44 3 Spices 20000 13522 1.00 0.75 Flowers 6700 5782 0.70 & 1270 Lakh no. cut flowers 0.55 & 445.16 Lakh no. cut flowers 4 Mushroom 15.50 (trays in lakh) 14.58 10000 (MTs) 9416 (MTs) 5 Community Tank (Nos.) 232 148 -

Growth in Horticulture during (2011-12 to 2013-14) i. Total Horticulture area and production. Total area under horticulture increase from 4.30 lakhs ha. to 4.50 lakh ha. (5%) Total production increased from 57.11 lakhs MTs to 62.95 lakhs MTs. (10.02%) ii. Fruit Area & Production The area under fruit increase from 47036 ha. to 50595 ha. (7.56%) The production increased from 476570 MTs to 554500 MTs. (16.35%) iii. Vegetable Area & Production The area under vegetable increased from 3.56 lakhs ha. to 3.73 lakhs ha. (4.8%) The production increased from 50.68 lakhs MTs to 55.65 lakhs MTs. (9.8%) iv. Mushroom Production The Mushroom Trays increased from 14.19 lakhsTrays to 16.75 lakhs Trays (18%) The total production under mushroom increased from 7333MTs to 9990 MTs. (36.02%)

Initiatives National Horticulture Mission. (MIDH) Integrated Water Management Programme: So far 3287 water ponds have been constructed at farmers field and linked with micro irrigation and orchard plantation. Govt. is providing 100% assistance for construction of community water tanks and 50% assistance to individuals. Special focus on Green House cultivation: State Govt. has increased assistance to 65% for construction of poly houses. Indo Israel Projects: Centre of Excellence for Vegetables – Gharaunda, Karnal: Established and Inaugurated on 17th January, 2011. Centre of Excellence for Fruits – Mangiana, Sirsa : Established and Inaugurated on 21th May 2013. Another three projects are to be established for Bee-keeping, flower & sub-tropical fruits with a cost of 34.60 crore. Govt. is establishing two another demonstration projects viz guava at Bhuna, Fatehabad and banana & papaya at Sewakheri, Panipat. Govt. is also establishing Horticulture Bio Technology Centre at Shamgarh, Karnal for production of potato micro tubers through tissue culture technologies for distribution of breeder seed to the farmer at nominal rates. To minimize the content of Pesticides in fruits & vegetables a new scheme on pesticides res, has been started and during 2014-15 an amount of Rs. 60.00 lacs has been made to mitigate the effects of pesticides on fruits and vegetables by monitoring the levels of residues by constant sampling and educating the farmers by seminars and field days.

Post Harvest Management & Marketing For measuring the content of pesticides in fruits and vegetables, two laborites are being established one at Karnal and another at Sirsa. Till now 327 farmer interest group and 13 Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) covering 6305 Nos. of farmers have been formed. Formation of 6 FPO covering 6000 no, of farmers is under progress Post Harvest Management & Marketing Till now 326 Nos. of Pack Houses bearing size 6x9 mts to handle the produce and 56 Nos. of low costs onion storage structures (capacity 25 mt each) have been constructed. Further more than 150 Nos. of cold storages are working. Govt. is providing 35% to 50% on Post Harvest Management.

VIUC Progress Project wise Status Report under RKVY sub scheme VIUC for the year 2014-15 Rs. In lacs Sr. NO. Activities Targets Achievements Proposed Outlay for 2015-16 1 VIUC (revalidated & committed liabilities of 2013-14) Phy. Fin. Fin I Vegetable Cultivation (open pollinated and hybrid crops) (ha.) 1631.2 480.89 4400 1237.50 Ii Protected Cultivation (sqm) 29768 113.50 Iii Cost of Planting Material (sqm) 43990 36.50 iv Promotion of IPM/INM (Ha) 694 6.94 Total 637.83

Project wise Status Report under RKVY for the year 2014-15 Rs. In lacs Sr. NO Activities Targets Amount approved Amount release Achievements Phy. Fin. i Project for integrated post harvest management. (No.) 560000 307.30 0.00 Ii Project for assistance on mushroom production (Tray) 110005 138.50 50.00 45500 Iii Project for promotion of bio pesticides in horticulture crops to reduce the pesticide residual effect .(Ha.) 8000 200.00 iv Promotion of stacking in hybrid vegetable (ha.) 250 156.25 30.00 48.00 v Soluble fertilizer/fertigation (Ha.) 1000 100.00 vi Solar water pump (Nos.) 100 160.00 Vii Establishment of training-cum-demonstration centre for sericulture at Panchkula. 1 40.68 Viii Protected structure/poly house (2081 to 4000 sqm) 750000 4031.25 Total 5133.98 80.00

Structures, Crop Demonstrations & Protocol Development Poly-house, Net-house, Walk-in-tunnel Mulching, Low Tunnels Crops: All field crop in open Crops under poly houses 75 varieties of tomatoes (45 cherry & 30 regular hybrids), 14 hybrids of capsicum of 7 colors & 5 hybrids of cucumber have been demonstrated Brinjal, Green Chilies, Summer Cabbage, Muskmelon in winter, etc. Protocol Developments: on Green tomato, cucumber, capsicum and book published for farmers.

Potential Productivity Achieved The Centre has achieved the productivity of 302 MT per ha in Tomato, 211 MT per ha in Capsicum 151 MT per ha in Cucumber per crop cycle.

Micro Irrigation Physical & Financial Achievement up to 2014-15 (up to 28.02.2015) Sn Year Achievement Area (ha) Financial (lac) 1 2006-07 2676 235.74 2 2007-08 7776 645.20 3 2008-09 22309 1891.39 4 2009-10 3258 851.76 5 2010-11 9153 2594.31 6 2011-12 8713 4034.09 7 2012-13 6559 6260.83 8 2013-14 6364 6189.32 9 2014-15 3144 2984.32 Total 69952 25686.96