OPERATION GREENS

About:

• Background: In the budget speech of 2018-19, a new Scheme “Operation Greens” was announced on the line of “Operation Flood”, with an outlay of Rs.500 crore.
  
  
• Objective: To stabilize the supply of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) crops and to ensure availability of TOP crops throughout the country round the year without price volatility.
  
  

Strategy:

• Short term Price Stabilisation Measures:
  • NAFED will be the Nodal Agency to implement price stabilisation measures.
    
    
  • MoFPI will provide 50% of the subsidy on the following two components: (1) Transportation of TOP Crops from production to storage; and (2) Hiring of appropriate storage facilities for TOP Crops.
    
    
  
  
  
• Long Term Integrated value chain development projects: This includes Capacity Building of FPOs & their consortium, Quality production, Post-harvest processing facilities, Agri-Logistics, Marketing Points, Creation of e-platform for demand and supply management of TOP Crops.