Among predominant horticultural crops of commercial importance in India, cashew continues to maintain the second position in terms of export earnings, besides providing vocational avenues to nearly a million rural families in the farming sector and nearly half a million labour families in industrial sector. In the context of Orissa, it has further valued for putting vegetative cover while producing nuts, in the denuded hilly terrain wherein the practice of slash and burn method of cultivation has removed good lot of forest cover.
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