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An Analysis on Production and Export of Fresh and Dry fruits in
Jammu and Kashmir.
Rubeenah Akhter*
* Ph.D Research Scholar, School of Economics. DAVV Indore.
economicsruby@gmail.com, rubymehra97@gmail.com
Abstract: The aim of the present paper
is to analyze the production and export
performance of major Fresh and Dry fruits
in Jammu and Kashmir. This paper will
also give some suggestion for increasing
the production in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Regression analysis has been done in
order to see changes in production during
the study period. Under the changing
agricultural scenario, it has been realized
that the horticulture sector plays a vital
role in providing livelihood security to the
farmers globally. Area, production,
productivity and export of horticultural
produces are vital for increasing farm
income and overall employment in the
agricultural sector. Horticulture in recent
years has emerged as an important and
viable option in agriculture and has
transformed the subsistence level of
farming into a high value commercial
enterprise. Horticulture crops provide food
and nutritional security, generate
employment, maintain ecological balance
and provide raw materials for agro- processing industries, thereby improving
the economy of state. Horticulture sector
in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has a
large share in export earnings and
employment potential in the state.
Keywords :- Horticultural Production,
Export, Employment, Agricultural sector,
INTRODUCTION
Jammu and Kashmir State is
predominantly an agrarian economy.
Agriculture remains the backbone of the
economy more than 60 percent of its
population depends on agriculture and
allied sectors. This sector contributes
around 27 percent to the State’s income. In
Jammu and Kashmir, agriculture is the key
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sector for employment and income
generation, because large scale
industrialization is not desirable
ecologically, and due to hilly regions the
infrastructure is too poor to attract
industries. Therefore, agricultural sector
continues to remain the important sector
for socio-economic development of the
people.
With serious constrains on area
expansion and declining scope of other
sources of growth of agriculture output,
the diversification of agriculture towards
non-food grains and high value cash crops
including fruits and vegetables, compatible
with the comparative advantage of the
region is suggested as a viable solution.
These crops have potential of income
augmentation, employment generation,
poverty alleviation and export promotion.
According to a study, in the state of
Jammu and Kashmir, the scope is to raise
output through diversification is highest in
the country as well as in the state. There is
one per cent shift in area from food-grains
to non-food grains entails more than 3 per
cent growth rate in crop output. Over the
years, horticulture emerged as an
important and growing sub-sector of
agriculture, offering a wide range of
choices to the farmers for crop
diversification. It also provides ample
opportunities for sustaining large number
of agro industries which generate
substantial employment opportunities.
With agriculture and allied sectors finding
alternate ways of increasing productivity
of crops, horticulture as a sub-sector, is a
revelation, showing remarkable signs of
progress in the state.
Jammu and Kashmir State is well
known for its horticultural produce both in
India and abroad. The state offers good
scope for cultivation of horticultural crops,
covering a variety of temperate fruits like
apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, almond,
cherry and sub tropical fruits like mango,
guava, citrus litchi, Phalsa and Berete.
Besides, medicinal and aromatic plants,
floriculture, mushroom, plantation crops
and vegetables are cultivated in the state.
Apart from this, well known spices like
saffron and black Zeera are also cultivated
in some pockets of the state. Horticulture
is gaining momentum in the state as its
contribution to GSDP remains around 7-8
percent over the past few years. As a
result, there is a perceptible change in the
concept of horticulture development in the
state. There are around 7 lakh families
comprising of about 33 lakh people which
are directly or indirectly associated with
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horticulture. Horticulture development is
one of the thrust areas in agriculture and a
number of programmes have been
implemented in the past, resulting in the
generation of higher incomes in the rural
areas, thereby improving the quality of life
in villages. An income of 4100 crore has
been generated from fruit production
during 2011-12 which includes an amount
of `495 crore from dry fruits.
REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE
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literature forms an important part of
research. It deals with the critical
examination of various published research,
enables the researcher to define the
frontiers of his fields. The format of a
review of Literature may vary from
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self- contained unit ... an end in itself... or
a preface and rational for engaging in
primary research. A review is a required
part of grant and research proposals and
often a chapter in theses and dissertation.
Horticulture products-vegetables,
fruits, species, and aromatic plants have
grown steadily to become the largest
category of world agriculture trade.
Horticulture has emerged to play a vital
role in providing food security globally.
During the past few years, demand for
high value and low volume horticulture
crops has been showing much faster
growth than demand for food grains. The
increasing share of high value
commodities in the consumption basket of
the households, higher income and
urbanization, changing life styles, market
integration and trade liberalization at
global level has led to an increased
domestic and international demand for
horticulture products in India (Naseer,
Parveez and Ajaz;2013 ). Horticulture is
labour intensive in nature and requires net
high labour ratio from the stage of planting
to stage of marketing of production. The
sector requires also lot of support from
family members and enables them to earn
income, also provides indirect employment
in packaging, grading, sorting and
processing activities especially in
horticulture belts. Indian agriculture is a
prelude to economic development and a
pre-requisite for poverty alleviation and
overall economic development (Wani
M.H, Baba S.H, Yousuf Shahid ;2009 ).
With this backdrop, diversification
towards horticultural crops has been
suggested as a viable option to stabilize
