Sprinkler in g.nut
6.8 In order to meet the enhanced production target of oilseeds during 2017-18, the following major initiatives have been taken by the Department
� Enhanced subsidy of seeds, pipe lines and age relaxation of varieties from 10 to 15 years to facilitate the states in implementation of activities of the Mission.
� Distribution of seed minikits of oilseeds were supplied free of cost through central agencies.
� Involvement of ICAR-KVKs in organizing FLDs and cluster demonstration on oilseeds which is about 525 no of KVKs during 2017-18.
� Targeting Rice Fallow Areas (TRFA) in six Eastern states:
A project to cover 4.5 million ha area @ 1.5 million ha area every year for 3 years i.e. 2017-18 to 2019-20 targeting Rice fallow areas under pulses and oilseeds in six Eastern states namely Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal covering 40 districts and 4000 villages in these states has been implemented under NMOOP with a production target of 2.43 lakh tn of oilseeds every year.
� Alternate crop plan to combat wheat blast:
The Action Plan for alternate Crops to replace wheat by oilseed crops a project ‘Alternate crop plan to combat wheat blast’ has been approved for West Bengal state during 2017-18 crops for implementation in Murshidabad and Nadia districts of West Bengal.
� Enhancement of import duty on oilseeds, vegetable oils and palm oil
In order to benefit both oilseed growing farmers and oil industry & trade the following revision in import duty has been made w.e.f 17th Nov 2017:
Commodity Previous
duty (%) Enhanced duty w.e.f.
17 Nov, 2017 (%) (i) Soybean seed 30 45 (ii) Crude Palm Oil 15 30 (iii) Refined Palm
Oil 25 40
(iv) Refined Sun-
flower Oil 20 35
(v) Crude Soy-
bean Oil 17.50 30
(vi) Refined Soy-
bean Oil 20 35
(vii) R a p e s e e d Oil including Canola
12.50 25
(viii) Refined Rape-
seed Oil 20 35
6.9 The enhanced duty is aimed to benefit the oilseeds growers and the vegetable oils traders as follow:
• Creation of competitive environment in the domestic market will improve the price of soybean and groundnut.
• Improvement in capacity utilization of Indian oil industry.
• Boost the confidence of farmers, who are compelled to grow oilseeds due to agro- climatic reasons and encourage them for higher investment on input application for productivity improvement.
• Area expansion under leguminous oilseeds like groundnut and soybean will improve soil health.
• The consumer will be forced to think about balanced use of edible oils.
• Balancing of trade deficit and saving of valuable foreign exchange by reducing the import and boosting the export of oilseeds.
Mini Mission-II (Oil Palm)
6.10 Oil palm is comparatively a new crop in India and is the highest vegetable oil yielding perennial crop. With quality planting material, irrigation and proper management, there is potential of 20-30 MT Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFBs) per hectare after attaining the age of 5 years which would yield 4-5 MT of palm oil and 0.4-0.5 MT palm kernel oil (PKO). In comparative terms yield of palm oil is 5-6 times the yield of edible oil obtainable from traditional oilseeds.
6.11 Oil palm development programme was started in India during 1991-92 and continued till 2013-14, mainly for area expansion under oil palm in selected states through productivity of oilseeds and oil palm cultivation, Integrated Schemes of Oilseeds, Pulses, Oil Palm and Maize (ISOPOM) and Oil Palm Area Expansion (OPAE) programme.
6.12 In order to bring more area under oil palm cultivation, Mini Mission-II component of National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP) is under implantation from 2014-15 in 13 states.
6.13 Under the Mission, financial assistance are being provided to the oil palm farmers
@ 85% cost of the planting material and
@ 50% cost of the other components like maintenance cost of new plantations for four years, installation of drip-irrigation systems, diesel/electric pump-sets, bore-well/water harvesting structures/ponds, inputs for inter-
cropping in oil palm (during gestation period), construction of vermi-compost units and purchasing of machinery & tools etc.
6.14 100% support is being provided to Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research (IIOPR), Pedavegi, Andhra Pradesh for Research &
Development on oil palm.
6.15 All these developmental efforts have resulted in area expansion under oil palm from 8585 ha in 1991-92 to 3.16 lakh ha by the end of 2016-17.
6.16 Similarly, the Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFBs) production and Crude Palm Oil (CPO) have increased from 21,233 MT and 1,134 MT respectively (1992-93) to 12.89 lakh and 2.20 lakh MT respectively during the year 2016-17.
6.17 At present, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Odisha are major oil palm growing states.
6.18 During 2017-18, oil palm programme is implemented with the major interventions as follow:
• Additional area coverage of 26,285 ha in 2017-18 has been targeted.
• About 68,700 ha will be under maintenance and intercropping.
• Coverage of 6530 ha under drip irrigation
• Distribution of 557 pump sets & 378 bore wells.
6.19 The State-wise details of area achieved under oil palm cultivation and production of FFBs and CPO up-to the year 2016-17 are given below:
S. No. State Total Area Coverage up-to March, 2017
(ha.)
Production during 2016-17 (in MT)
FFBs CPO
1. Andhra Pradesh 156532 1136579 190854
2. Telangana 16899 88549 19979
3. Karnataka 42397 11912 2051
4. Tamil Nadu 30311 7422 1115
5. Gujarat 5721 853 NA
6. Goa 953 NA NA
7. Odisha 20772 4965 NA
8. Tripura 530 NA NA
9. Assam 1035 0 0
10. Kerala 5778 34198 5929
11. Maharashtra 1474 NA NA
12. Mizoram 27410 4796 626
13. Chhattisgarh 3449 0 0
14. Andaman& Nicobar 1593 NA NA
15. Arunachal Pradesh 573 0 0
16. Nagaland 1173 0 0
Total 316600 1289274 220554