One District One Product
In order to promote specific specialties from the districts, the government has recently decided to introduce the scheme of One District One Product.
Recently the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir held a review meeting and asked his officers to identify, promote commodities of surplus production under ODOP.
He asked his officers that they should first evaluate the products before they recommend them having export potential.
He stressed on establishment of Cluster centres, CFCs in each district. He said that the revenue generation of selected products should be evaluated and the product should be viable to export in large quantities.
Recently some officers gave a presentation on plan for making every District Export Hub under One District One Product of Agriculture, Horticulture and Handicraft sector in which she stressed on adopting minimum number of products having prolific production in a district besides pointed towards revamping of sections of existing policy, logistic intervention and other requirements.
The meeting discussed finalization of ODOP items under scheme, limiting 3-5 products in each district of Kashmir Division and finalization of draft District Export action plan by respective DCs as per the draft template shared earlier with DICs.
He stressed on establishment of Common facility centres (CFCs) and Cluster centres to carry out the related activities for production, value addition, and export of identified products. He said that existing vacant buildings should be utilized for Cluster centres and CFCs while more focus should be laid on procuring machinery of Cluster centres.
