India's premier agri-research body ICAR has worked out a plan to motivate farmers of Arunachal Pradesh to take up large scale cultivation of highly lucrative walnuts.
The horticulture department of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) – in coordination with Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (CITH), Srinagar and other ICAR research centres – has worked out a plan to make the state a large producer of stone fruit walnut in the country.
According ICAR data, the State has 20,000 hectares of land suitable for walnut production.