Highlights on vegetable production and marketing

1. Highlights on vegetable production and marketing

2. Presentation outline • Vegetable production and income • Background • Vegetable production and income generation in 2012 and 2013 • Group wise production and income for 2013 • Crop wise production and income comparison for 2012 and 2013 • Dzongkhag wise comparison for each vegetable B. Vegetable marketing • Marketing at local markets • Auctioning • Trial marketing • School linking programme C. Vegetable production target for 11 FYP

3. Background of vegetable production • Production very little before VVCP-E (contributed only 0-5 percent of total income) • About 40 percent increase in vegetable production after VVCP-E • Today vegetables have become important sources of income for 1377 HHs • 40 percent contribution to total income • 60 percent of total production is sold for income generation • Home consumption- 21percent • Damage- 19 percent

4. Total vegetable production and income earned

5. Total vegetables production and sales from March till 3rd week of September (Qty in MT) 60 percent sold from total production

6. Income earned from March till 3rd week of September (Nu. in million)

7. Comparison of qty sold for two years

8. Comparison of income earned in two years

9. Group wise Production and income-2013

10. Lhuntse Dzongkhag

11. Mongar Dzongkhag

13. Trashiyangste Dzongkhag

14. Trashigang Dzongkhag

16. Pemagatshel Dzongkhag

17. Samdrupjongkhar Dzongkhag

18. Vegetable production- crop wise (MT)

19. Income generation (in million)-crop wise

27. Vegetable marketing • Local markets- Dzongkhags, sales along road side (infrastructure, information sharing, even transportation support for trial marketing etc..) • Auctioning system (link) • Trial marketing • Identified six potential markets in nearby towns in Assam (Rangia, Nalbari, Tamulpur, Kumarikata and Guwahati). • Frequent strikes affecting marketing of vegetables • Insufficient qty, poor quality and inconsistent supply major bottlenecks in marketing of vegetables • Bhutanese vegetables marketed in India by some Indian vendors.

28. Cont... • School linking programme • Piloted GHSS and Jakar HSS with MoU between MoAF and MoE • Beneficial to both Institutes and Farmers Groups • Found out to be potential markets for vegetables marketing • 31 institutes/schools linked with 57FGs • 257.8 MT supplied in 2013 and helped to generate Nu. 4.166 milllion • prospect to link 106 institutes/schools- annual requirement- 1499 MT per year amounting Nu. 23.53 million (Separate presentation on linking program)

29. 11FYP target for vegetable production in the country Target- To increase production by 58 percent

30. Vegetable production target for 11FYP- East

31. Kaadrinchey