Monday, 11 March 2013

National Horticulture Mission Success Stories:Bringing Prosperity to Farmers

The National Horticulture Mission (NHM) supports a wide range of horticultural activities. This photo-feature showcases three farmers who have become successful farmer-entrepreneurs and role-models in their neighbourhoods by adopting new technologies with NHM assistance.
1. Ms. Harshida Desai of Uchgaon, Belgaum District, Karnataka, is cultivating garbera in green houses and selling the flowers directly in Bangalore market.
Garbera green house in bloom

Harshita with fresh garbera flowers
2. Shri Vishwas Chavan of Kohlapur district, Maharashtra, not only grows bananas, he exports bananas too.

Quality banana ready for export

Vishwas in his banana orchard
3. Shri Dharamveer of Yamunanagar, Haryana, has taken up cultivation and processing of Aloe Vera with NHM assistance.
Dharamveer with aloe sap extraction machine


Some aloe products made by Dharamveer

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