Department
of Horticulture
Thrust Areas
- Linking village IT Centres with KVK
to extend online Agricultural advisory and information services.
- Processing of Aromatic Plants for
economic exploitation in light and poor soils.
- Home Scale Processing of Fruits by
Alcoholic Fermentation & its Standardization.
- Restructure and Strengthen FIACs in
Ahmednagar District and establish REF Linkage on sound footing.
- Impart specialized training to the
agricultural unemployeds for helping them establish Agriclinic and
Agribusiness Centres and linking their services with KVK.
- Conduct Frontline demonstrations on
Horticultural crops to tide over adverse drought conditions in dryland areas
and demonstrate the improved technologies.
- Extend weather and Crop Disease
Forecasting services for farmers.