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A Fruit Technological Laboratory will be set up where experi- 

 mental work will be taken up in the preservation of local fruits and 

 vegetables. This will also be used for testing the quality of fruit 

 products produced by the industry and will help them in solving 

 their problems (Scheme 11.8). 



Short courses will be arranged in home preservation of fruits 

 for consumption in the home (Scheme 11.9). 



17. Crop Planning. It will not be feasible to take up .crop 

 planning as such. But every effort will be made to increase the 

 acreage under selected crops. The present position is that out of 

 23 million acres sown, 18 million are occupied by foodgrains inclu- 

 ding 7 million acres under rice, 3 million under wheat, 7 million under 

 millets and one million under pulses. Fibres cover 2 million acrea 

 and oilseeds another 1^ million acres. The remaining 2 million acres 

 are shared equally by sugarcane, fruits and vegetables, fodder crops 

 and miscellaneous crops, each of them covering half a millioja acres 

 approximately. , 



It is proposed to increase the acreage under rice and under 

 oilseeds by f million acres each, and under wheat, under fruits and 

 vegetables and under fodder crops by half a million acrea ; each. 



The land for this increase of 3 million acres will become available 

 partly from the additional area that will be brought under cultiva- 

 tion and irrigation, and partly from an increase in the double cropped 

 area. Some land will also become available when the yields of non- 

 food crops increase and their acreage can therefore be reduced without 

 decreasing their production. 



18. Extension. In order to carry out all this work it will be 

 necessary to maintain a proper organisation and extension staff. As 

 there are 25 districts, 100 tahsils and 500 firkas in the Province, the 

 district staff will consist of 2,000 Kamdars, 500 Fieldmen or Super- 

 visors ( non-graduates), 100 Inspectors (graduates) and 25 Superin- 

 tendents (gazetted Class II) and 5 Deputy Directors. Taking into 

 consideration the existing staff, the extra staff required is ........ 



(Scheme 12). This staff will be in addition to the special stuff that 

 will be required for items such as seed farms, experimental farms, 

 depots, etc. There will also be Inspectors and Superintendents etc. 

 for work in connection with horticulture plant protection and agricul- 

 tural engineering. 



19. Research. The provincial research farm will I, e expanded. 

 Research in Agronomy (cultural practices) will be intensified. P!r nt 

 breeding work will be carried on, in cooperation with the different 



