What is One District One Product?

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ODOP was launched by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, to help districts reach their full potential, foster economic and socio-cultural growth, and create employment opportunities, especially, in rural areas.
It aims to do this by identifying, promoting and branding a product from one district.
Its objective is to turn every district in India, into an export hub through promotion of the product in which the district specialises.
The initiative plans to accomplish this by scaling manufacturing, supporting local businesses, finding potential foreign customers and so on, thus helping to achieve the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ vision.
The one district one product launch date is January 24, 2018, by the Uttar Pradesh Government, and due to its success, was later adopted by the Central Government.
This initiative is carried out with the ‘Districts as Exports Hub’ initiative by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is an important stakeholder. In the scheme, the ODOP product is identified by the state for a district. The criteria for ODOP identification are given below:
- Percentage of ODOP produce relative to total agricultural produce of the district
- Perishable nature
- ODOP presence in the district relative to other districts
- Recognisability of the district with the ODOP product
- Processing level for ODOP in that district, other districts and states
- Number of workers engaged in ODOP production and processing
- Marketing linkages
- ODOP processing infrastructure in the district

Q1. What is the Directorate General of Foreign Trade?

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Organization is an attached office of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, with headquarters at New Delhi and headed by the Director General of Foreign Trade. It has been essentially involved in the regulation and promotion of foreign trade through regulation. It is responsible for implementing the Foreign Trade Policy with the main objective of promoting India’s exports.

Source: Livemint