Kullu, Mandi and Hoshiarpur - all these districts have flourishing agriculture and horticulture, but there is always a scope of improvement so that with better techniques and proper crop care, the farmers can have betterand higher yields.

HRI has organized extension camps for farmers with the help of government horticulturists. Main emphasis of horticulture programs is to teach the farmer better and proper farming methods and how best to increase their farm and orchards' yields.

They were also taught alternate cropping procedures.

Thanks to these Horticulture efforts, the earnings from each acre and the fruit quality and output has gone up tremendously.

HRI has several plans in future for the farmers of Himachal, Uttranchal, and Punjab

• Include more farmers in alternate cropping to increase their earnings.
  
  
• Setup up a processing plant for the community so that they can process their crops themselves and earn more.
  
  
• Set up marketing mechanism and infrastructure, which would bring buyers to their door step.
  
  
• And to take their produce to big markets outside H.P. in order to avoid the middleman.
  

Conducting Special Camps in Bee Keeping
(Contributing to sustainable growth and development)

HRI, with the help of District Horticulture Department of H.P. Government has also organized special camps for teaching the rural poor and farmers Apiculture or Captive Bee Keeping and production of honey. These camps were organized in District Kullu and District Raipur Rani of Haryana.