SKILL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

SKILLING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MARKET LINKAGES

Activities Proposed

• Information dissemination – trainings, skill development, pamphlets, videos and mobile apps.
• Promoting entrepreneurship in aroma crops-based business, right from planting material production, processing facility and value-added products
• Establishing market linkages – direct or through apps, interactive portal, IP support for market intelligence, etc.

Deliverables 

• About 150 One-day awareness programmes for farmers and progressive citizens will be organized to motivate them about the benefits of cultivation of medicinal and aromatic crops for different agroclimatic regions of country.
• About 35 training programmes of 2-3 days duration on cultivation and processing technologies for skill upgradation.
• About 15 advanced training of 1-2 weeks on the processing technologies (distillation, quality testing, fractionation, product development etc.) will be organized to develop semi-skilled manpower/ entrepreneurs to take up value addition activities related to aromatic crops.