Udaipur, Apr 18: The
environment condition of Tripura is favorable for the production of pineapples
and the BJP-led government will try to export pineapples abroad, Agriculture
Minister Pranajit Singha Roy has said.
The pineapples of Tripura are qualitatively good
and have high demand in India and abroad. Favourable agro-climatic conditions,
deep fertile soils, sub-tropical humid climate with abundance of rainfall offer
tremendous scope for development of Horticulture sector in the state.
Among the important horticultural crops pineapples
grown in Tripura are widely acclaimed as the best in the country, besides good
quality production of Orange, Banana, Jackfruit, Mosambi, Mango (Amrapalli) and
Cashew nut. The state is still the largest producer of True Potato Seed (TPS)
in the country and is surplus in several vegetable crops, including Cabbage,
Cauliflower, Tomato and different Cucurbitaceous crops.
Accorting to the report of the Horticulture
Department, there is huge tracts of land are available for cultivation of
fruit/ plantation crops like pineapples. The department has adopted some
strategies for sustainable development of fruits, vegetables and flowers.
The production and productivity primarily
depends on use of good planting materials. It is the effort of the Horticulture
Department to provide all these facility to producers.
Creation of plantation in cluster manner has
been given the priority to give horticulture a commercial approach. To maintain
production and productivity at the desired level, irrigation support is essentially
required and hence emphasis has been given on creation of water sources and
coverage under micro irrigation to get maximum water efficiency during dry
spell period. UNI
