About CDP
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW), Government of India announced the Revised Cluster Development Programme (CDP) on 31-Dec-2024. CDP is a central sector programme implemented by the National Horticulture Board. The Programme aims to achieve holistic growth and development of horticulture clusters to make them globally competitive.
CDP is designed as a central sector scheme to leverage geographical specialisations of horticulture clusters and promote integrated and market-led development of pre-production, production, post-harvest, logistics, branding and marketing activities.
Based on the learning, output, and outcome of the pilot implementation, the revised guidelines have been issued for the next stage of the Cluster Development Programme.
The cluster development approach will facilitate the horticulture sector in realising suitable economies of scale in production and post-harvest activities. It is also expected to help in better price realisation and empowerment of the farming community by enhancing their income through increased competitiveness across the entire value chain.
The revised approach of developing crop specific clusters in different agro climatic zones of the country would also help in dealing with various supply issues like high quality planting material, soil health management, adoption of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and innovative technologies to promote market led production apart from addressing the gap in information sharing on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) issues for export markets.
The cluster-based approach is expected to address the concerns and common challenges of all the stakeholders in a cluster. While individuals and institutions within a cluster will compete, they are also expected to collaborate and complement each other to function as an optimally aggregated group, optimising resources and achieving the desired impact through focused interventions.
Multi Commodity High Value Cluster
The cluster development approach will facilitate the horticulture sector in realising suitable
economies of scale in production and post-harvest activities. It is also expected to help in better price realisation and empowerment of the farming community by enhancing their income through increased competitiveness across the entire value chain.
The cluster-based approach is expected to address the concerns and common challenges of
all the stakeholders in a cluster. While individuals and institutions within a cluster will compete,
they are also expected to collaborate and complement each other to function as an optimally
aggregated group, optimising resources and achieving the desired impact through focused
interventions.
High Value Value Commodity Cluster, will have a clearly identified focus horticulture crop. In addition to this primary focus crop, the cluster may also include additional horticulture crops to enhance its agricultural diversity and productivity. The minimum annual farm gate value
(FGV) of the identified focus crop within the cluster must be no less than INR 100
Crores,
The land comprising the cluster should be contiguous to the
extent possible. The cluster should be limited to a maximum of 3 (three) adjoining
contiguous districts.
Peri Urban Vegetables Clusters
Peri Urban Vegetable Clusters is a Central Sector Scheme, with an outlay of INR 2000 Crore investment, spread over five years, to facilitate the development of Urban and Peri urban vegetable within a vicinity of 50-100 km of the urban centers.
The PUVC aims to mitigate price volatility in fruits & vegetables including Tomato, Onion & Potato (TOP crops) and will be implemented in phases. In the first phase, cities with a population of 15 lakhs and more (as per 2011 Census) and capital cities of the states will be covered; in the second phase cities with a population of 10 lakhs and more (as per 2011 Census) will be covered. The third phase will cover cities with a population of upto 10 lakhs (as per 2011 Census).
The scheme will comprehensively address farmer’s issues pertaining to poor realization of prices (or low producer share in consumers’ rupee) through multiple interventions including but not limited to the promotion of good agricultural practices (GAPs), facilitating the availability of quality planting material of new and improved cultivars, incentivising the use of modern technologies including IoT, Traceability solutions, precision farming and others.
