Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
B. Physical and Financial Progress report of MOVCDNER scheme
An amount of Rs. 125 crore was allocated to the north eastern states during 2015-16, Rs.
100 crore during 2016-17,Rs 100.00 crore during 2017-18, Rs. 160.00 for 2018- 19 and Rs. 160.00 crore for 2019-20, and funds released are an amount of Rs. 112.16 during 2015-16, Rs.47.63 crore during 2016-17, Rs.66.22 crore for 2017- 18, Rs.174.78 crore for 2018-19 and Rs.75.16 crore for 2019-20.
Under the scheme Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region during phase-I there was a target to form 100 Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) which would cover 2500 Farmers Interest Groups (FIGs), 50000 ha area and 50000 farmers. Against this target, 2469 FIGs have been formed covering an area of 45918 Ha and 48918 farmers in eight North Eastern states. So far all the 100 Farmers Producer Companies have been registered.
For phase–II there is again a target to form 100 Farmers Producer Companies (FPCs) which would cover 2500 Farmers Interest Groups (FIGs), 50000 ha area and 50000 farmers. Against this target, 1364 FIGs
have been formed covering an area of 25574 Ha and 33376 farmers in eight North Eastern states. So far 39 Farmers Producer Companies have been registered.
8.8.8 Success Stories
Miss Laishram Rima Devi, aged 22, daughter of L. Ibomcha Singh and L.(O) Kumudini Devi is a budding young entrepreneur from LairikyengbamLeikai, Imphal East District, Manipur. She is the youngest among four sisters. She is a home science graduate from NaoremBirahari College, Imphal.
After her graduation, she had undergone a training programme on food processing in the year 2014 at District Industry Training Centre, Porompat, Imphal East and gained the basic technical knowledge in food processing. From this point in the same year, she started her business as M/s Rima Food Industries at her home in a small scale by making pickles from King chilli, garlic, bamboo shoot, mushroom, etc. by employing 2 women to help her in this venture. Her unit is registered under FSSAI and MSME with the Lic. No. 21615002000067 and UAN No. MN04A0000395 respectively. From this small scale business she could make a monthly income of ₹25,000.00 (Rupees Twenty five thousand only) after paying her employees. She continued her business of making pickles and marketing from 2014- 2016. However, she was not satisfied with the quantum of her business and also had tough competition from well-established local food industries. She wanted to expand her business.
From 2016 she shifted her focus from pickles to Chakhao (Black Aromatic Rice) as there was very high demand of Chakhao outside the state and there were few entrepreneurs working on this crop leading to less competition. Her business is now concentrated only on marketing of high
quality graded Chakhao to buyers outside the state in bulk and some small portion in the local market. Her unit is equipped with a mechanical dehydration unit of capacity 200 kg/hour, grinding machine and sealing machine. She has employed 6 women to carry out manual grading of rice and other related works. She was able to earn about
₹40,000.00 (Rupees Forty thousand only) per month after paying her employees.
By the end of 2016, M/s Rima Food Industries learned about the MOVCDNER scheme and became associated with the Manipur Organic Mission Agency (MOMA) and was selected as a beneficiary entrepreneur under the MOVCDNER scheme. She was selected as an entrepreneur beneficiary for providing assistance of Integrated Pack House under Component B of the scheme and was sanctioned ₹16.9 Lakhs (Rupees Sixteen lakhs and ninety thousand only) after evaluating her DPR submitted to NEDFi.
She has started upgrading her existing units with the funds provided under MOVCDNER and started marketing Organic Chakhao under the scheme. Apart from her business of Chakhao rice, she has included Chakhao tea under the brand name “Aromatic Black Rice Tea” as her new product and is well received in the market. She is planning to include a milling machine for Chakhao and another section to produce Chakhao powder during this upgradation. With the intervention of this scheme MOVCDNER by marketing Organic Chakhao her monthly income has increased to ₹70,000.00 (Rupees Seventy thousand only) after paying her employees.
Her products have reached almost all the
cities of India under different brands. Some of the firms which buy organic Chakhao from her are NERAMAC, M/s For8 (Delhi), M/s Mirisa(Delhi) and many buyers from other states like Gujarat, Assam, West Bengal, etc.
At the beginning of her venture in 2014 her annual turnover was only ₹4.2 lakhs (Rupees Four lakhs and twenty thousand only) which increased to ₹9.8 lakhs (Rupees Nine lakhs and eighty thousand only) in 2016 with the business of Chakhao and by the intervention of the MOVCDNER her annual turnover further increased to ₹14.2 lakhs (Rupees Fourteen lakhs and twenty thousand only).
Chakhao rice
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9.1 OVERVIEW
Farmers’ Welfare Division of this Department is entrusted with the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of two new Central Sector Schemes of the Government, namely, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) and the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana (PM-KMY).
9.2 Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN):
9.2.1 Salient features
l The objective of the scheme is to augment the income of families of all land holding farmers subject to certain exclusion criteria relating to higher income status. The Scheme was formally launched on 24th February, 2019.
l The scheme was originally started for Small & Marginal Farmers (SMFs) only, possessing a combined holding of upto 2 hectares of land, but later w.e.f.
1.6.2019 the Scheme was extended to all farmers, irrespective of the size of their land holdings.
l The Scheme aims to provide a payment of Rs. 6000/- per year to be transferred in three equal installments of Rs. 2000/- each every four months directly into the bank accounts of eligible landholding farmer families.