The Union government has come up with a new platform to disburse subsidies to horticulture farmers under the Cluster Development Programme (CDP).
The platform is known as CDP-SURAKSHA.
SURAKSHA stands for “System for Unified Resource Allocation, Knowledge, and Secure Horticulture Assistance.”
The platform will allow an instant disbursal of subsidies to farmers in their bank account by utilising the e-RUPI voucher from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
The CDP is a component of the central sector scheme of National Horticulture Board.
So far, 55 horticulture clusters have been identified, out of which 12 have been selected for the pilot.
Four more clusters — a floriculture cluster in West Bengal, coconut clusters in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and white onion clusters in Gujarat — are also in the pipeline.