Achievements
- The total land planted with horticulture crops has grown significantly attributable to MIDH.
- India produced 320.77 million tons of horticulture in 2019–20, which was a record high.
- From 2014–15 to 2019–20, the area and production have grown by 9 and 14 percent, respectively.
- It has made a substantial contribution to raising the agricultural output and farmland productivity.
- The MIDH program has helped India become self-sufficient in the horticulture industry while simultaneously advancing the achievement of other sustainable development goals, such as gender equality, ending hunger, no poverty, good health, wellbeing, etc.
Mission For Integrated Development Of Horticulture (MIDH)
The Government of India has come up with several schemes for the welfare of its citizens. One such scheme for horticulture is the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), a central government-sponsored scheme for the overarching development and growth of the horticulture sector. The scheme covers various kinds of vegetables and fruits ranging from tuber crops such as potatoes, turnip spices such as turmeric, clove, cardamom mushrooms, aromatic plants and some other coconuts, cashew nuts, cocoa, and a very efficient plant crop, bamboo.