How has horticulture encouraged Indian rural development?
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Horticulture plays an important role in providing crops for nutrition and food, besides addressing employment concerns. It gives employment to around 19 percent of the total labour force.
- It has become a means of improving livelihood for many women and underprivileged classes too.
- Flower harvesting, nursery maintenance, hybrid seed production, tissue culture, propagation of fruits, flowers and food processing give employment and remunerative options for women in rural areas.
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