One District One Focus Product Scheme: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 2 JULY 2022

One District One Focus Product Scheme

The One District One Focus Product (ODOFP) programme cover products of agriculture and allied sectors for 728 districts of the country.

ODOFP programme

✓The ODOFP programme cover products of agriculture and allied sectors for 728 districts of the country.

✓The products have been identified from agricultural, horticultural, animal, poultry, milk, fisheries, aquaculture, marine sectors across the country.

✓These identified products will be supported under the PM-FME scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, which provides incentives to promoters and micro-enterprises

✓This scheme is being implemented for a period of five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.

✓The scheme adopts One District One Product (ODOP) approach to reap the benefits of scale in terms of procurement of inputs, availing common services and marketing of products.

About ODOP

✓The ODOP scheme aims to identify one product per district based on the potential and strength of a district and national priorities.

✓A cluster for that product will be developed in the district and market linkage will be provided for that.

✓It is operationally merged with ‘Districts as Export Hub’ initiative implemented by the Director-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce.

✓Under the initial phase of the ODOP programme, 106 Products have been identified from 103 districts across 27 States.

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