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Drishti ias academy current affairs
Drishti ias academy current affairs Published this article The restructured National Bamboo Mission (NBM) was launched in 2018-19 for holistic development of the bamboo sector through a cluster-based approach in a hub (industry) and spoke model to harness the opportunities by providing backward and forward linkages among the stakeholders – linking farmers to markets. There is a huge potential to place Indian bamboo products in the domestic as well as global markets with the latest technologies modern processing and by generating awareness on compliance requirements for destination countries. The Mission is streamlining its interventions to enhance domestic industrial activities and augmenting the farmers income with support from technical agencies and facilitative steps. Direct subsidy of 50% is given to farmers at Rs 1.00 lakh per ha 100% to Government agencies and also to entrepreneurs for setting up various product development units etc. The Mission is presently being executed by 21 States including all the 9 States of NER through the respective State Bamboo Missions. NBM is also advising States to make available quality planting material to the farmers out to carry out plantations of commercially required species set up common facility centres and other post-harvest units in complete sync with the requirement of existing and sunrise industries for a winwin situation for farmers and Indian bamboo industry drishti ias academy current affairs book buy. Drishti ias academy current affairs