{"id":32378,"date":"2023-02-27T02:14:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32378"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T05:30:11","slug":"atmanirbhar-clean-plant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atmanirbhar-clean-plant-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Need for the Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary Regarding the Center Plans to Establish 10 &#8220;Clean Plant Centers&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In order to increase domestic production, the Center plans to establish 10 &#8220;Clean Plant Centers&#8221; as the demand for fruits like apple, avocado and blueberry has increased over time.<\/li>\n<li>These centers will be set up under the <strong>\u2018Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program\u2019,<\/strong> which was announced by the FinancMinister in the <strong>Union Budget 2023-24.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Program will be launched with an outlay of <strong>Rs. 2,200 crores<\/strong> (in the next 7 years till 2030) to boost availability of disease-free, quality planting material for high value horticultural crops.<\/li>\n<li>The Program will aim to &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Enhance the yield of horticulture crops,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Disseminate and adopt climate resilient varieties,<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Protect the ecosystem through proactive virus and disease control measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The programme <strong>will be anchored by the National Horticulture Board<\/strong> (NHB) which in turn will set up <strong>Clean Plant\u00a0Centers<\/strong> across the country and ensure the <strong>global competitiveness<\/strong> of the Indian horticulture sector.<\/li>\n<li>The centers will <strong>work with the stakeholders<\/strong> so that they adopt clean plant seeds and nurseries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Need for the Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To adopt best practices. <\/strong>Many advanced countries like the US, Netherlands, and Israel run clean plant programmes<\/li>\n<li>India is a top producer of many fruits like banana, mango, pomegranate and papaya, <strong>yet its contribution in exports is not up to the mark<\/strong>, sometimes owing to poor quality of the produce.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For example,<\/strong> India\u2019s share in global banana production is 27%, but the share in exports is around 1% only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boost horticulture and exports.<\/strong> The area under horticulture in India has increased from 23.4 to 27.5 million hectares (in the last 7 years), while the production has increased from 280.9 to 333.25 MT (18.63%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary Regarding the Center Plans to Establish 10 &#8220;Clean Plant Centers&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The concept of Clean Plant Centres is <strong>unique <\/strong>in itself and does not exist in India.<\/li>\n<li>The 10 centres will be established for fruit crops <strong>like apple, walnut, almond, grapes, mango, pomegranate, etc., <\/strong>and will be fully funded by the Centre.<\/li>\n<li>The centres will be implemented <strong>in a PPP mode in partnership with research organisations<\/strong>, agriculture universities and private sector partners.<\/li>\n<li>The Clean Plant Centres will <strong>provide services<\/strong> of disease diagnostic, therapeutics, multiplying of plants and generation of mother plants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The demand for imported planting material<\/strong> of various fruit plants has risen sharply over the years (for example, from 21.44 lakh apple plants in 2018 to 49.57 lakh imported in 2020).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The process of importing plants is very cumbersome<\/strong>, as the imported plants must be kept in quarantine for two years.<\/li>\n<li>After the establishment of the Clean Plant Centres,<strong> this period will be reduced to six months.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>VIDEO:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1mrKjyWf9Ak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1mrKjyWf9Ak<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Which program will create Clean Plant Centers across India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program will be launched with an outlay of Rs. 2,200 crores. It will be anchored by the National Horticulture Board (NHB) which in turn will set up Clean Plant Centers across the country and ensure the global competitiveness of the Indian horticulture sector.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Q2) Why did India launch the Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>India is a top producer of many fruits like banana, mango, pomegranate and papaya, yet its contribution in exports is not up to the mark, sometimes owing to poor quality of the produce. The program will boost availability of disease-free, quality planting material for high value horticultural crops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/govt-plans-10-clean-plant-centres-to-boost-fruit-crop-production-8468324\/#:~:text=The%20source%20said%20the%2010,next%20seven%20years%20till%202030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Govt plans 10 \u2018Clean Plant Centres\u2019 to boost fruit crop production<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1895308#:~:text=An%20Atmanirbhar%20Clean%20Plant%20Program,Finance%20and%20Corporate%20Affairs%20Smt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/budget\/article\/govt-to-launch-atmanirbhar-clean-plant-programme-with-outlay-of-rs-2-200-cr-123020100930_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>BS<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/news\/india\/2023\/02\/01\/budget-2023-atmanirbhar-clean-plant-programme-to-be-launched.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Week<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program aims to boost availability of disease-free material for horticultural crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378","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=32378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}