India has made a fairly good progress on the Horticultural
Map of the world with a total annual production of the horticultural
crops touching over 149 million tonnes. India has been bestowed with
a wide range of climates and physio-geographical conditions and as such
is most suitable for growing various kinds of horticultural crops such
as fruits, vegetables, flowers, nuts, spices and plantation crops
(coconut, cashewnut and cocoa).
With the focussed attention given to horticulture,
there has been a spectacular change in terms of adoption of new
technologies, production and availability of horticultural products.
India, today is the second largest producer of fruits
(45.5 million tonnes) and vegetables (90.8 million tonnes)
in the world, contributing 10.23 and 14.45% of the total world
production of fruits and vegetables respectively. The availability
of flowers has increased significantly in all major cities in the
country. India has a good opportunity of growing of medicinal and
aromatic plants. It is largest producer, consumer and exporter of
spices. It ranks first in the total production of coconut and arecanut
and is the largest producer, processor, consumer and exporter of
cashewnut in the world. There have been situations of gluts due to
high production of several important horticultural crops in the country.
Thus, the efforts of NHRDF have helped India in heralding the Golden Revolution.
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