India: Haryana to tap Delhi markets to sell fruits, vegetables

Taking advantage of its proximity to the national capital, Haryana is planning in a big way to tap potential of Delhi markets to sell its fresh fruits and vegetables as part of its plan to provide remunerative prices to state growers.

To make the things viable, we are exploring the PPP mode, under which fresh fruits and vegetables and even flowers can be supplied," Haryana's Agriculture Minister O P Dhankar told PTI here.

The government has also expressed interest in working with the private players for supplying horticulture crops in order to make this ambitious project as great success.

"The potential is huge and we are exploring how it can be tapped in a big way since we have the locational advantage as Haryana is very close to Delhi.

Over the last few years, Haryana has seen paradigm shift in cultivation from traditional crops to cash-rich crops with growers now preferring to grow high quality vegetables like tomato, capsicum, cucumber, chillies, brinjal etc using latest cultivation techniques like growing crops in green house.

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