Oil palm the major ingredients used in producing palmolein oil was taken up line 2013 by horticulture department as a measure of experiments which grew into 400 hectares last year.
Now this district boasts of a major exporter of oil palm seeds to companies allover India. This year under the initiatives of district collector Rajesh Pravakar Patil and DDH Dharanidhara Patra the district have taken up 1300 hectares of oil palm cultivation which would yield around hundreds of tonnes of oil palm.
This has benefited the tribal cultivator who earlier only depends on paddy and Sabai cultivation.The efforts of DDH in particular & horticulture department in general have greatly boosted the variety of cultivation here including sweet maize, apart from mango, lichi which are now being exported to multinationals.