date:Apr 01, 2013
approval.
From the funds allocated by the ministry for the National Horticulture Mission, the EGoM gave its nod to a scheme under which orchards in Maharashtra's drought-hit areas would be rejuvenated. It was stipulated that while the Centre bore 50 per cent of the cost, the rest would come from the farmer.
Incidentally, this is the third time Maharashtra has been given assistance to tide over the prolonged drought-like conditions Marathwada and western Maharashtra are grappling with. Befor