|
Home |
 |
NOVOD Board:
The National
Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development (NOVOD) Board, a statutory body,
constituted on 8th March,
1984 under the
National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development Board
Act, 1983 (No. 29 of 1983), for the Integrated Development of Oilseeds
and Vegetable Oils Industry in the country. The Board is under the
administrative control of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation of
Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. The Board has its
headquarters at Gurgaon, Haryana.
Programmes of NOVOD Board:
The Board is implementing various programmes for 'Integrated Development
of Tree Borne Oilseeds (TBOs)' in the entire country for exploring the existing potential and
augmenting the future potential. The Board has been entrusted with the
exclusive responsibility of promoting important TBOs of commercial value
in the country since Tenth Plan (2002-07). The country has enormous
potential of TBOs like sal, mahua, neem, simarouba, karanja, Jatropha,
jojoba, cheura, wild apricot, walnut and tung etc. These are grown in
different agro-climatic conditions having different ecological
requirements in a scattered form in forest and non-forest areas as well
as in waste-land/desert/hilly areas.
Keeping in view of above,
the Board is implementing various programmes for ‘Integrated Development
of TBOs’ in the entire country for exploring the existing potential and
augmenting the future potential.
|
