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An Agro textile is a major segment of Technical Textiles and contributes to more than 21% of the technical textile sector in India. Agro technical textile is divided into 4 main segments. Aggrotech includes textile products used in agriculture, horticulture (including floriculture), fisheries and forestry. Applications for technical textiles in agriculture include all activities concerned with the growing and harvesting of crops and animals. It includes diverse items such as, ropes, shade fabrics, mulch mats, woven and non-woven covers for crops, bird protection nets, etc. These textiles are driving the sector profitably by improving the productivity and reducing the need for chemicals.
Agro-textiles for production of crops
• Sunscreens
• Bird Protection nets
• Plant nets
• Ground Cover
• Windshield/Wind protection
Nets/wind breaks
• Root ball net
• Mulch mat
• Insect meshes
Agro-textiles for Horticulture & Floriculture
• Hail protection fabrics
• Mulch net
• Rain protection fabrics
• Wind control fabrics
• Harvesting nets
Agro-textile for Animal Husbandry
• Nylon & Polyester Identification belts for cows
• Textile nets for udders
Agro-textiles for Fishing and Aquaculture nets
• Fishing nets
• Aquaculture nets
Fishing Nets are devices made from fibers woven in a grid-like structure. Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by knotting a relatively thin thread.
Early nets were woven from grasses, flaxes and other fibrous plant material. Later cotton was used. Due to the technical characteristics of Nylon, Nylon fishnet constitutes more than 65-70% of the total fishnet consumption world over. While HPDE is at 25 – 30% of the total fishnets, PP/ Polyester constitute 5-10% of the total demand globally.
Fishing net is a fabric made joining twine at an interval of about half an inch or so to form a set of mashes for catching the fish. These have been from plied cotton yarn so far in our country & many other countries, but slowly it is being replaced by the fish nets manufactured by using chemically treated extra strong nylon yarns. For marine fishing only nylon fish net is preferred.
Fish nets are manufactured by HDPE Yarn twisted nylon or cotton yarns. These are woven on special looms. Fish nets are made of two types e.g. knotted type or knotless type.
Normally transparent nylon is used for the manufacture but the coloured nylon yarns may be employed for the purpose which makes it a bit economical.
Generally fish nets are marketed in the size of nets 12 feets X 12 feets with inches of (0.5″), (0.75″) whereas the first one is most popular & widely acceptable quality.
Fisheries sector occupies a very important place in the socio-economic development of the country. It has been recognized as a powerful income and employment generator as it stimulates growth of a number of subsidiary industries and is a source of cheap and nutritious food besides being a foreign exchange earner. Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for a large section of economically backward population of the country.
The geographical diversity in India is also ideal for both marine and inland fisheries, thereby making it one of the lead producers of fish globally.
India’s coastline extends over 8,118 kilometers with an Exclusive Economic Zone of 2.02 million square kilometers. The total area covered by inland water bodies is 73.59 Lakh hectares, almost two times the size of the state of Kerala.
Target of 20 million tons by 2022-23
In October 2018, the government launched the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) to meet the infrastructural requirements in the sector. The target set was to produce 15 million tons by 2020 by supporting Blue Revolution. FIDF also aims to achieve a sustainable growth of 8% to 9% to increase India’s fish production to 20 million tons by 2022-23. Under FIDF, a corpus of ?10,000 crores was announced in the Union Budget in 2018. An estimated fund size of Rs 7522.48 crore comprising of Rs 5266.40 crore was to be raised by the Nodal Loaning Entities (NLEs), Rs 1316.6 crore through beneficiaries’ contribution and Rs 939.48 crore budgetary supports from Government of India.
Furthermore, the government also extended the facility of Kisan Credit Card to fisher folk for meeting their short-term working capital requirements.
