HP Employment generation
Tourism
- State GDP's 7%
- Yearly Tourists: 32 Lakh
- Employment
- Direct
- Tourist guides
- Hotel industry
- Adventure tourism
- Bir billing, Kol dam, pong dam, Kufri, Chansal
- Heritage tourism
- UNESCO: Kalka Shimla rail, great Himalayan national park, gaiety theatre, nagger, rang mahal of Chamba etc.
- Religious & Cultural tourism
- Fairs and festivals: Mandi Shivratri, Kullu Dussehra, Lavi fair, Renuka fair
- Sacred shrines: Naina devi, Chintpurni, Jawalamukhi, Masrur cut temple etc.
- Indirect
- Transport operator
- Handicrafts and hand loom product
- Chamba rumal, kullu shawl, kinnauri shawl, lahauli socks and gloves
- Local vendors
- Direct
Horticulture
- Diverse: Agro-climatic conditions, topographical variation, deep and fertile soils
- Employment
- Horticulture cash crops
- Apple, cherry, plum
- ginger, garlic, capsicum
- Beekeeping
- low investment and skill
- support agriculture/horticulture
- Floriculture
- Input to: cosmetic, perfume, pharmaceutical
- Mushroom
- Small area, productivity ↑
- Nursery
- Service sector: nursery manager, field supervisor, salesperson, propagator (develops quality planting material)
- Horticulture cash crops
Forest
- Area
- 37948 sq.km: i.e. 68.16% of total geographical of the state
- Major tres
- Deodar, Chil, Sal, pines, khair
- Forest Economy - HP
- Timber: 0.31% of state GDP
- Non-timer forests products (NTFP): 0.27% of state GDP.
- Timber
- Fuel, furniture
- Non timber forest product (NTFP)
- Beverages, medicine, biochemical, fibre and cosmetic industry.
- Afforestation and reforestation
- Weeding, cleaning, thinning and pruning
- Agroforestry
- Protect crop
- supplementary income(timber and Non timer forest product)