Vision document to be commissioned for plantation sector
1 year, 10 months ago

Vision document to be commissioned for plantation sector

The Hindu  

The recently constituted Kerala Plantation Directorate will commission a vision document for plantations in the State for drawing up plans to make the sector profitable, job-generating and environmentally sustainable. The document is expected to cover the entire range of ideas from diversification of plantations to labour welfare, introduction of profitable tourism ventures and leveraging carbon credits from the sector, sources in the directorate said. Interventions to ensure fair price for plantation crops and ensuring insurance cover for crops are the other tasks of the directorate. The total area of plantation crops during 2019-20 had been placed at more than 6.87 lakh hectares compared to 6.86 lakh hectares in the previous year.

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Kerala govt. working out nitty-gritty of Plantation Directorate’s operation
1 year, 10 months ago

Kerala govt. working out nitty-gritty of Plantation Directorate’s operation

The Hindu  

The government is working on the nitty-gritty of the operation of the newly constituted Plantation Directorate, which will function under the Department of Industries. Sources said details such as posting of personnel are being worked out and finalised even as the Industries department has been entrusted with the task of turning the plantation sector into a profitable one creating job …

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