Utilisation of Agency Tracts in Maximising Fruit Production

Abstract

Several schemes are under way to extend the area under food crops in this State. A comprehensive plan for the develop-ment of fruit of this State is yet to emerge. The hillmen of the Agency tracts are yet to understand that fruit should supplement the normal diet for better health. With the cry for more fruit to supplement rice for a well balanced diet, the hill ryot may now usefully divert his attention to the innumerable patches of uncultivated wastes fit for orcharding, at a time when the prices of fruit are attractive. At a time like this, the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in 1928 as well as the National Planning Committee, have to be considered seriously. Cheema¹ observed that the development of the horticultural crops in this country has been neglected to a very great extent as compared with the development of cotton, sugarcane, oil seed and such other crops. Round about Anantagiri in Visakhapatnam district, stray trees of common pear, rose apple and coffee bushes were introduced long back.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002402

Pages

198 - 202

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