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STRATEGY FOR GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS (SGNH) Annexures to the Main Document (Sub Committee Reports) (Edited and compiled)  Table of Contents Part I. Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise (ICE 2008) 3 Track 1: High Value Manufacturing and Service Industries 3 Organic food and beverages/ products 3 Floriculture industry 11 Water based industry 19 Non-Timber Forest Products 23 Arts and Crafts Industries 30 ICT and Media 34 Track 2: Revitalization of Agriculture, Forestry and Construction Industries 60 Governance framework for optimizing agricultural land use 60 Enhancing national food security 67 Revitalization of field crop enterprises 75 Revitalization of horticultural enterprises 83 Revitalization of livestock enterprises 95 Revitalizing RNR Research and Extension Services 104 Revitalization of Agro Based Industries 113 Revitalization of Wood-Based Industries 117 Revitalization of the Construction Industry 123 Track 3: Hydropower 145 Part II. National Spatial Policy (NSP 2008) 204 Part III. Strategic Infrastructure (SI 2008) 222 Surface Transport 222 Air Transport 241 Part IV. Care and Relief for Everyone (CARE 2008) 254 Health 254 Part V. Enabling Environment (EE 2008) 265 Civil Service Reforms 265 Security, Immigration and Labour 273 Part I. Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise (ICE 2008) Track 1: High Value Manufacturing and Service Industries Organic food and beverages/products Background There is an increased awareness globally of health and environmental issues, and the sustainability of general agricultural practices adopted worldwide. These issues are of high importance especially in developing countries where there is huge potential of either having well balanced development plans based on sustainable farming and healthy economic growth, or of trading the natural resources for hastened economic growth. The global trend of increasing organic farming is a result of international communities becoming more conscious of these issues, and