{"id":28374,"date":"2024-12-01T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28374"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:19:17","slug":"atmanirbhar-clean-plant-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atmanirbhar-clean-plant-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Programme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is designed to address critical issues in horticulture by <strong>providing access to high-quality, virus-free planting material.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Program will aim to &#8211;<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhance the yield of horticulture crops,<\/li>\n<li>Disseminate and adopt climate resilient varieties,<\/li>\n<li>Protect the ecosystem through proactive virus and disease control measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Components<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Under this programme 9 world class <strong>state-of-the-art Clean Plant Centers<\/strong> (CPCs) equipped with advanced diagnostic therapeutics and tissue culture labs.<\/li>\n<li>A robust certification system will be implemented to ensure thorough accountability and traceability in planting material production and sale.<\/li>\n<li>It also prioritizes affordable <strong>access to clean plant material<\/strong> for all farmers, actively engages women farmers, and address the diverse agro-climatic conditions across India by developing region-specific clean plant varieties and technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implemented by:<\/strong> Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare through the <strong>National Horticulture Board <\/strong>(NHB) and the <strong>Indian Council of Agricultural Research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The programme is poised to deliver numerous benefits across various stakeholders, from farmers to consumers, and bolster India&#8217;s position in the global fruit market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Asian Development Bank (ADB)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a multilateral development bank established on 19th December 1966. It is the principal international development finance institution for the Asia-Pacific region. It envisions a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2079201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of India and ADB sign $98 million loan to promote plant health management in India\u2019s horticulture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Programme is designed to address critical issues in horticulture by providing access to high-quality, virus-free planting material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}