Uttarakhand - Department of Land Resources

Issues related to Animal Husbandry and Dairy development
Refrigerators/bulk milk coolers in the societies or enroute are required.
AI centers do not have proper mobility and coverage per unit is very large
particularly in hilly regions.
Intensive fodder development programme may be taken up in the treated Micro –
watershed.
Horticultural infrastructure: Horticulture is one of the critical sector in the economy of the
state. Horticulture provides the much needed opportunity for diversification in agriculture
especially in the context of peculiar topography and agro – climatic conditions of the hill
states where the scope for production of conventional field crops is limited. Horticulture
development is an effective tool for accelerating development in the hills areas due to
limited land available for cultivation, availability of cultivable waste lands and necessity
of supplementary job and income opportunities.
Issues : Support and capacity building service such as nurseries, collection centers with
grading and weighing facilities, fruit preservation centre‟s and training cum skill
development centers need to be developed on a large scale in hill areas of the State.
Agriculture Finance has been recognized as one the crucial inputs to successful and
rewarding agricultural activities in the country. Agricultural finance allows the
farmer/processor to leverage his capacity to invest in the farming/processing activity,
with a direct bearing on his capacity to produce at a higher scale, yield and quality. All
kinds of agriculturists, whether in farming, allied activities or in processing, need to
borrow, and the easy availability of adequate, timely and affordable credit remains the
central objective of any system willing to facilitate agricultural growth.
Financing agriculture in India has not been very popular with Banks and Indian Financial
Institutions. Given a number of structural constrains, both real and imagined, such as
small land holdings, climatic uncertainty, unorganized nature of Indian agriculture, lack
of account keeping systems (since there is no incidence of tax on agriculture and
consequently no statutory compulsion to keep books), banks were reluctant to lend to
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