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🔆 Clean Plant Programme (CPP)
📍 Context
✅ The Union Cabinet launched the Clean Plant Programme (CPP) under the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) with a budget of ₹1,766 crore.
📍 About Clean Plant Programme (CPP)
✅ Objective: Enhance horticulture quality by ensuring high-quality, virus-free planting material.
✅ Under MIDH: Supports farmers & horticulture sector by increasing crop yield, health, and quality.
✅ Implementation: Led by National Horticulture Board (NHB) in collaboration with ICAR.
✅ Core Components:
Clean Plant Centers (CPCs): Establish 9 state-of-the-art CPCs in Pune, Srinagar, Bengaluru, etc.
Certification & Legal Framework: Quality control under Seeds Act, 1966.
Infrastructure Support: Large nurseries to propagate virus-free planting material.
📍 About MIDH (Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture)
✅ Launch: 2014-15, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
✅ Objective: Holistic growth of fruits, vegetables, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, and cocoa.
✅ Key Components:
National Horticulture Mission (NHM): Launched in 2005 for horticulture development.
Horticulture Mission for Northeast & Himalayan States (HMNEH): Special focus on NE & Himalayan regions.
National Bamboo Mission (NBM): Supports bamboo cultivation.
Coconut Development Board (CDB): Promotes the coconut sector, HQ in Kochi, Kerala.
Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH): Provides training in Nagaland, primarily for NE farmers.
📍 Additional Info
✅ NHB: Established in 1984, HQ in Gurugram.
✅ Father of Indian Horticulture: M.H. Marigowda.
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