The govt has prepared guidelines to implement ‘Operation Green’ to provide a correct pricing scheme to farmer producers. The scheme was devised to contain the annual price distress of tomatoes, onion and potatoes (TOP) in regions with high production.
The operation was announced by the Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley on February 1, 2018 in the budget speech and claimed that the operation will provide support to horticulture crop growers.
Under the scheme, the government will share 50 percent of the cost with the NAFED for transportation and storage facility of TOP produces.
The long term budget is meant to develop a value chain, cold storage, packaging, sorting, grading and processing industries. The top producing clusters are chosen, keeping in mind the value chain and processing industries.
Courtesy- downtoearth.org.in
