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i. Validation and up-dation of market data available with DAC&FW as communicated to the States.
ii. Up-dation of market profiles in the AGMARKNET portal.
iii. Timely completion and accurate data reporting on the AGMARKNET portal within 24 hours by the Director of Mandies / MDs of mMandi boards.
iv. A large proportion of the variety of different commodities is 49categorized as
“others” which results in aberrations. To make data entry ease and ensure correctness, it is suggested that the major varieties against each commodity be furnished by the State for incorporation in AGMARKNET database.
v. Currently, the arrivals are being reported only commodity-wise whereas the prices are segregated into varieties. This leads to unreliable data analysis &
reporting. Hence the Mandi Secretary may be directed to ensure variety-wise reporting of arrivals.
vi. To complete coverage of mandis under AGMARKNET, wholesale markets under Municipal Corporation should also be covered. Sub-Market Yards and Rural Periodic Markets where government procurements is undertaken, needs to be covered under AGMARKNET for effective below MSP monitoring.
vii. Complete listing /mapping of all government procurement centers on AGMARKNET procurement interface.
viii. Identification of commodity-wise major markets especially for pulses, wheat, paddy, oilseeds, onion, potato and tomato based on production hinterlands and its effective monitoring.
ix. Promoting the digital transactions in the mandis and capturing of digital transactions in APMCs on the AGMARKNET interface, establishing proper monitoring mechanism and furnishing of weekly digital transaction reports. A field for entry of mode of payments has also been inserted in the portal so as to capture the quantum of digital transactions as per targets assigned to mandis across the country.
x. Effective monitoring at the State level Director of Mandis/ MDs of SAMBs to monitor the data and take corrective measures for timely and accurate data entry.
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Annexure-III
Sl. No. State/UT No. of
APMCs in Whole State/UT
Principal Market Yards
Sub - Market Yards
Total No.
of Regulat ed Markets
(4+5)
Wholesal e Assembli
ng Markets/
Rural Haats
Number of Grameen Haats Under Administrative Control of State Agricultural Marketing Department/
Directorate/
Board
Number of Grameen Haats Under Administrati ve Control of Local Bodies
Total No.
of Wholesale Assemblin g & Rural Primary Markets (7+8+9)
Remarks
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
1 Andhra Pradesh 191 191 157 348 0 0 0 0
2 Arunachal Pradesh 13 13 0 13 66 176 15 257
3 Assam 20 20 206 226 405 735 1140
4 Bihar APMR ACT REPEALED 325 1469 1794 **
5 Jharkhand 28 17 173 190 0 602 602
6 Goa 8 1 7 8
7 Gujarat 224 224 176 400
8 Haryana 108 108 173 281 Nil Nil Nil Nil
9 Himachal Pradesh 10 10 46 56 0 0 0 0
10 Jammu & Kashmir 5 5 20 25 8 8
11 Karnataka 162 162 351 513 Nil 730 730
12 Kerala 6 0 1100 1106
13 Madhya Pradesh 257 257 288 545 NA NA 2550 2550
14 Chhattisgarh 69 69 118 187 0 1132 1132
15 Maharashtra 306 306 596 902 3500 3500 **
16 Manipur 24 95 119
17 Meghalaya 2 2 2 35 89 124
18 Mizoram 4 20 196 220
19 Nagaland 19 19 19 0 0 174 174
20 Odisha 66 54 382 436 398 132 1018 1548
21 Punjab 153 151 284 435 1395 1395
22 Rajashthan 141 141 313 454 0 0 0 0
23 Sikkim 7 0 12 19**
24 Tamil Nadu 22 280 6 286 Nil Nil 501 501
25 Telangana 150 150 110 260
26 Tripura 21 21 0 21 63 0 470 533
27 Uttar Pradesh 251 251 372 623 0 1643 3464 5107
28 Uttarakhand 27 25 33 58 0 0
29 West Bengal 20 20 455 475 0 0 2900 2900
30 A & N Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 23
31 Chandigarh NA 1 1 0 1
32 D & N Haveli 33 Daman & Diu
34 Delhi 7 7 5 12
35 Lakshdweep
36 Puducherry 3 3 5 8 Nil Nil Nil Nil
2284 2508 4276 6784 1333 3374 20775 25482
APMR ACT NOT ENACTED APMR ACT NOT ENACTED
Not available Rural Primary Markets
APMR ACT NOT ENACTED
Statement of Regulated and Rural Periodic Markets as on 31.3.2017
NOTE:The information is based the information collected from the State /UTs APMR ACT NOT ENACTED
APMR ACT NOT ENACTED
Total
APMR ACT NOT IMPLEMENTED
APMR ACT NOT IMPLEMENTED
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Annexure-IV Status of Coverage and Reporting on AGMARKNET (August, 2017)
S.
No.
Name of the State/UT No of Market covered under AGMARKNET
No. of Markets Reported
Regularly Reporting Markets
>20 Days
Markets Not
Reporting
1 Andaman and Nicobar 4 3 0 1
2 Andhra Pradesh 195 178 172 17
3 Arunachal Pradesh 15 1 1 14
4 Assam 23 22 16 1
5 Bihar 58 2 1 56
6 Chandigarh 1 1 1 0
7 Chhattisgarh 185 180 178 5
8 Goa 10 8 8 2
9 Gujarat 305 223 175 82
10 Haryana 150 117 96 33
11 Himachal Pradesh 41 29 18 12
12 Jammu and Kashmir 35 7 5 28
13 Jharkhand 26 24 22 2
14 Karnataka 192 133 105 59
15 Kerala 113 97 76 16
16 Madhya Pradesh 267 267 255 0
17 Maharashtra 379 330 279 49
18 Manipur 5 5 4 0
19 Meghalaya 19 19 12 0
20 Mizoram 3 2 0 1
21 Nagaland 18 11 3 7
21 NCT of Delhi 9 7 7 2
22 Odisha 106 94 74 12
23 Pondicherry 4 3 0 1
24 Punjab 248 234 214 14
25 Rajasthan 149 144 111 5
26 Sikkim 7 0 0 7
27 Tamil Nadu 184 183 141 1
28 Telangana 158 147 146 11
29 Tripura 21 19 19 2
30 Uttar Pradesh 257 257 256 0
31 Uttarakhand 25 21 20 4
32 West Bengal 76 74 72 2
Total All India 3288 2842 2487 446
Source: AGMARKNET
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TOPIC – VII: DROUGHT PROOFING OF VULNERABLE DISTRICTS
1. Background:Drought is a problem of insufficient water supply, relative to normal demand. Drought is defined as a temporary harmful and widespread lack of available water with respect to specific needs. The drought damage to crops is induced by the loss of water balance within the body of the plant. When effective moisture in the soil decreases to a certain degree, plant roots are hindered from absorbing moisture and the plant begins to wilt. Drought brings about disasters through damaging the moisture balance in the soil-plant atmospheric system. The occurrence of the drought is contingent on a number of factors such as cropping choices and agronomic practices, soil types, irrigation coverage, drainage and ground water profiles, etc.
2. India being a rain fed country, had faced many droughts since independence, the one in 1987 was one of the worst, with an overall deficiency of 19% which affected 59-60% of the normal cropped area and a population of 285 million. This was repeated in 2002 when the overall rainfall deficiency for the country as a whole was 19%. Over 300 million people spread over 18 states were affected by drought along with around 150 million cattle. Food grains production registered an unprecedented steep fall of 29 million tonnes. In 2009, the overall rain deficiency for the country as a whole was 22%, which resulted in decrease of food grain production by 16 million tonnes. During 2014-15 and 2015-16, large parts of the country were affected by drought causing widespread hardships to the affected population since the calamity encompassed major agricultural States in the country. Despite a good rainfall in the country, Southern States faced a severe drought during 2016-17.
3. Various drought relief and response measures are put into operation following the declaration of drought and require sector specific planning and immense inter-departmental coordination. Prompt and planned implementation of these measures has been quite effective in reducing the hardships to the farmers caused by drought such as, Crisis Management Plan, District Agriculture Contingency Plans and release of financial assistance under State Disaster Response Fund/National Disaster Response
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Fund. However, in addition to the above short term relief oriented measures, it is the endeavour of the Government to attain the objective of the drought proofing through long term measures geared towards the adaptation to climate change, restoration of ecological balance through adoption of sustainable agronomic and conservation practices, sensible crop choices etc.
4. Conceptually, drought proofing means the capacity to meet the basic material and physical needs of the local population - human and animal - in a drought period so that there is minimal distress. Drought proofing an area then implies that the local natural and human production resource base can provide a certain desirable amount of food, fuel, fodder, drinking water and livelihood resources during a drought. Drought proofing helps equip the community and the administration to enable production system to operate at a lower level by enhancing water availability during a drought so that the fall in production can be minimized.
5. In order to attain the objective of drought proofing, it is necessary that drought mitigation measures should be taken as a part of regular development programmes of the Centre and States. Some of the current national programmes are Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna, National Rain fed Area Development Programme, National Rural Drinking Water Programme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme etc. Many of these programmes can be guided towards the development of a cogent drought mitigation strategy at the State level by taking advantage of the flexible funds available under centrally sponsored schemes.
6.0 Identification of Vulnerable districts
There are several ways of identifying the most vulnerable districts in the country.
A. Based on Occurrence of Drought
One of them is the frequency of drought due to rainfall deficit.
Mahalanobis National Crop Forecasting Centre, an institute of the Ministry of Agriculture has identified 150 districts where drought has
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occurred most in the last 15 years. Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW) has embarked upon a mission to prepare of District-wise Action Plan by incorporating measurable parameters like increase in area under irrigation, increase in water table because of watershed activities, impact of NRLM on livelihood/alternate income generation, penetration of crop insurance, steps taken for diversification of cropping pattern in semi-arid districts &
districts which are always under acute water stress and frequently face drought. Out of about 150 drought prone districts, 24 chronic drought districts in three states namely Karnataka (16), Andhra Pradesh (4) and Rajasthan (4), which were affected by more than 10 drought events during last 15 years, have been identified for preparation of District Drought Proofing Plans. A list of the identified districts is enclosed in Table 1.
MOU has been signed with ICAR-CRIDA to facilitate the process of preparation of above plans in close consultation with state and district level officers. The Plan would be essentially prepared by district and state level officials of different sectors such as agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, irrigation (surface and ground water sources), rural development etc. in a collaborative way for each district separately. CRIDA would also organise capacity building programs for the staff of line departments at states in preparation of these plans, review and finalize plans prepared by the line departments. States are expected to identify the priority of programmes/interventions to be taken up, participate in the capacity building programs/meetings etc. for finalization of plans.