Agriculture Economic Zones In India

The tree cover percent analysis in various agro ecological zones of india showed high mean tree cover in those zones where the rainfall is significantly high and soil fertility is adequate such as.

Up agriculture kisan sahayata. Made no serious references to addressing the issues that plagued agro industrialisation such that when nigeria adopted the model of special economic zones food processing was listed only as one of the 24 permissible industries. To set up such a large number of sezs there is a need for land on a large scale to be acquired. L ast week in my article thoughtful insights on agricultural sector of india i correlated.

Now coming back to aez it is a special type of economic zone which focuses on agriculture and its dependent industries. With the primary objective of boosting agricultural exports from india in march 2001 government of india announced a policy of setting up of agri export zones aezs across the country. It has been developed with an objective to enable a single window access to information and services being provided by the various indian government entities.

1989 the national economic empowerment and development strategy etc. An agri export zone or aez is a specific geographic region in a country demarcated for setting up agriculture based processing industries mainly for exportthe term is widely used mainly in india. The central government has sanctioned 60 aezs comprising about 40 agricultural commodities aezs is spread across 20 states in the country.

India has specific laws for its sezs. But scene was able to make. Ujjain zone neemuch ratlam mandsaur and ujjain indore zone indore dhar shajapur and dewas and bhopal zone sehore vidisha raisen hoshangabad harda narsinghpur and bhopal 41 lentil and grams.

Aez are to be identified by the state government who would evolve a comprehensive package of services provided by all state government agencies state agriculture universities and all institutions. A special economic zone sez is a geographical region that has economic laws that are more liberal than a countrys domestic economic laws. National portal of india is a mission mode project under the national e governance plan designed and developed by national informatics centre nic ministry of electronics information technology government of india.

The share of the agricultural area in the total area is 545 per cent and the non agricultural area in india is 1352802. The total land area of india is 2973190 sq km out of which 1620388 sq km area is used for agriculture agricultural area. Criticism of special economic zones.