Department of Agriculture

  •    In 1779, when a small colony established at Chatham Island, the conventional agriculture in a small area taken up to support the population.
  • ·              This project subsequently abandoned due to aboriginal menace and diseases.
  • ·              The first convict settlement in the Andaman Islands was done by Lord Mayo in 1870 by grant of tickets of leave and clearing a few hectares of land for cultivation of rice and vegetable around Port Blair.
  • ·              Only about 18,000 ha. were cleared till 1931 because of the embargo to the entry to the Islands and fear from the aboriginal tribes.
  • ·              The major clearance of forest and settlement on Agriculture was taken up after Independence with the settlement programme of refugees, landless people from mainland, repatriates of Srilanka and Burma and the ex-servicemen.
  • ·              With the settlement by repatriation, land distribution started in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, providing each settler about 2 ha. paddy land, 2 ha. hilly land and 0.4 ha. of homestead land. This marked the INITIATION OF AGRICULTURE IN THESE ISLANDS.



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