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Income of 24 lakhs can be taken from one hectare garden. Putting a garden in a hectare of apple can be earned only 8.9 lakhs, while vegetable production in which mainly tomatoes can be earned from only 2 to 2.5 lakhs …Read more

Kiwi cultivation is a chance to earn millions of rupees! Government should take many big steps
New Delhi. Foreign fruit kiwi has good demand in the country. But the good news is that Nagaland is doing gardening of Kiwi. And even more happiness is that the production of kiwi is increasing. In view of this, the Central Government has started helping Nagaland to get Kiwi State status. The production of kiwi is more, along with the Kiwi, the Kiwi has also started the initiative for this. Although other states of North-East are also producing Kiwi, but they are far behind in Nagaland. Businessmen say that income of 24 lakhs can be taken from a hectare garden. Putting a garden in a hectare of apple can be earned only 8.9 lakhs, while vegetable production in which mainly tomatoes can be earned from only 2 to 2.5 lakhs. Kiwi is also known as Chinese Goosebair. Although China is the original place of this fruit, New Zealand used it commercially. In Himachal Pradesh, a lot of gardens were installed in Kullu, Mandi, Solan, Chamba Sirmaur districts in the 1990s, but due to lack of technical information, the gardening of Kiwi fruit did not prove to be as beneficial as it was. The main reason for this was to reduce the size of fruits, which was less neglect of the fruits imported from abroad.
Kiwi is doing marketing in markets across the country-On this occasion, Union Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala said that today farmers of Nagaland are marketing Kiwi with traders of big cities of the country, this is a pleasant sign. He said that foreign fruits should be produced here and their imports are low, it is also a step towards the self -sufficient Bharat Abhiyan. Emphasis was also laid on forming separate farmers productive organizations in Nagaland for Kiwi fruit.
Kiwi increased the economy of Nagaland-Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Food Processing Minister Narendra Singh Tomar says that Nagaland and other north-eastern states are playing a leading role towards producing foreign fruits like Kiwi. With the increase in the income of farmers here due to Kiwi production, the field of horticulture has also expanded. The economy of the state has also been encouraged. He said that the state government and the Ministry of Agriculture should work in this direction to get the status of ‘Kiwi State’ to Nagaland.
Union Minister Tomar said this while addressing the value chain construction program for Kiwi organized by the Central Institute of Horticulture, Nagaland. He said that this step of Nagaland is going to give happiness to the country. This has added a new dimension in the agriculture sector and the farmers there will definitely get the benefit.
10 thousand crores given in the field of food processing-Union Minister Shri Tomar said that agriculture has been a matter of priority for PM Narendra Modi from the beginning. Farmers’ income increases, increase in yield production, diversification of crops, food processing and farmer to cultivation of expensive crops, work is being done in this direction for the last 6 and a half years under the leadership of PM. At the same time, a provision of Rs 10,000 crore has been made in the field of food processing under the self -dependent Bharat Abhiyan. Now the need is that the Center, State and concerned institutions should work together to make the benefits of all these schemes to the farmer.
Benefits of consumption of kiwi- Vitamin C inside it is 5 times more than oranges. It contains more than 20 nutrients. Vitamins and potassium, copper, fiber are also found in abundance in the fruit, it is also called super fruit. About 70 grams of fresh kiwi fruit contains 50%vitamin C, 1%of vitamin, calcium 10%, fiber eight percent, vitamin E 60%, potassium 6%. The anti -oxidant found in it works to protect the body from diseases. It increases the body’s prevention of disease in the body. It is very important for health.
November 27, 2020, 10:36 IST









