In India Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Sector is allowed 100% under Automatic Route
Following Sectors are included in Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Sector :
a) Floriculture, Horticulture, and Cultivation of Vegetables & Mushrooms under controlled conditions;
b) Development and Production of seeds and planting material;
c) Animal Husbandry (including breeding of dogs), Pisciculture, Aquaculture, Apiculture; and
d) Services related to agro and allied sectors
Note: Besides the above, FDI is not allowed in any other agricultural sector/activity
The term “under controlled conditions” covers the following:
(i) ‘Cultivation under controlled conditions’ for the categories of floriculture, horticulture, cultivation of vegetables and mushrooms is the practice of cultivation wherein rainfall, temperature, solar radiation, air humidity and culture medium are controlled artificially. Control in these parameters may be effected through protected cultivation under green houses, net houses, poly houses or any other improved infrastructure facilities where micro-climatic conditions are regulated anthropogenically.
