Over the years, the Horticulture sector in Nagaland has emerged as one of the most significant and dominant sectors where people can easily engage themselves for sustenance. This was stated in the Annual Administrative Report 2022-23 of the Department of
Two Naga women win award Our Reporter Dimapur, July 4 (EMN): Nagaland state faces challenges like high transportation cost, lack of processing units and poor marketing facility, said Director of Horticulture department, R Elithung Lotha, who spoke on the potential and prospects of spices sector in Nagaland during the recently concluded International Buyer Seller Meet and Spices Conclave for Northeastern Region at Guwahati. The two-day conclave organised by Spice Board of India concluded on July 1. Lotha said that other challenges faced by farmers in Nagaland were crop damage due to natural calamities, infestations resulting in decrease of crop yield, non-availability of good quality planting materials, lack of drying machinery resulting in poor quality products, and lack of facilities for proper packaging, labelling and branding of the product, according to an update. He also stated that setting up of processing units and post harvest infrastructures were required for scaling up produc