The country's total Kharif oilseed production in 2020-21 is estimated at 25.73 million tonnes, which is 3.41 million tonnes more than the 2019-20 production. Moreover, Kharif oilseed production in 2020-21 is 5.90 million tonnes more than the average Kharif oilseed production.
Minimum Support Price
It is higher by 1.59 million tonnes than the Kharif pulse production of 7.72 million tonnes in 2019-20 (fourth preliminary estimate). Sugarcane production during 2020-2021 is higher at 39.40 million tonnes than the average sugarcane production of 360.43 million tonnes.
Doubling of Farmers’ Income (DFI) Government constituted an Inter-ministerial
All loans under this financing facility will have interest subsidies of 3% per annum up to a limit of Rs. Further, credit guarantee cover will be available to eligible borrowers of this financing facility under Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) scheme for a loan up to Rs.
The scheme provides a medium-term debt financing facility for investments in viable post-harvest management projects. Infrastructure and community farming assets through interest subvention and financial support. 1 Lakh Crore will be provided by banks and financial institutions as loans to Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), Marketing Cooperative Societies, Farmer.
Mini Mission-I: will concentrate on production & productivity improvements
Producer Organizations (FPOs), Self Help Groups (SHGs), Farmers, Joint Liability Groups (JLGs), Multi-Purpose Cooperatives, Agri-entrepreneurs, Startups and Central/.
Mini Mission-II: will concentrate on post- harvest management of beekeeping/ beehive
- The Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance
- PM-KISAN
- Farmer Producer Organization (FPO)
- Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
- Determinants of MSP
- Structure: The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare
The mandate of the "Farmers Produce Trade and Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020" is not to replace the State APMC Act. Cost of production (CoP) is one of the important factors in determining the MSP of mandated crops.
Functions and Organizational Structure
- Implementation of the Right to Information Act, 2005: During year 2020-
- Information and Facilitation Counter
- Progressive Use of Hindi: The Department has an Official Language
- Reservation for Scheduled Castes/
- Prevention of Harassment of Women Employees: An Internal Complaints
- Major Programmes/Activities .1 Agricultural Statistics Division
One director has been appointed as a staff grievance officer to handle the complaints of the employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation. In addition, ten subordinate/attached offices were inspected by officials of the Hindi Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare.
Directorate of Economics & Statistics
- Cost Study (CS) Division
- Food Economics Division
- Commercial Crops Division
- Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS) Division
- Prices & Market Division
- International Agriculture & Compilation Division
- Crop Forecasting Coordination Centre
- Coordination Division
- Schemes implemented by the DES The DES implements the Plan Scheme
- Timely Reporting Scheme(TRS) : The objective of this component is to obtain
- Improvement of Crop Statistics(ICS)
- Establishment of an Agency for Reporting of Agricultural Statistics(EARAS): This
- Overview
- National e-Governance Plan – Agriculture
- MKisan-Use of basic mobile telephony
The field data is collected based on the Cost Accounting Method by the 16 national implementing agencies. To determine the impact of changes on. During 1998-1999, Planning, Management and Policy Formulation, a central sector plan, was prepared with a focus on the plight of Indian farmers.
National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A)
- Development of Mobile Apps
- New application development in 2020- 21 by Digital Agriculture Division
- DBT implementation in schemes of the Department
- Major Schemes – Objectives
- Brief of schemes under MIDH is as follows
- National Horticulture Mission (NHM)
- Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States (HMNEH)
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare aims to improve farmers' awareness, knowledge and efficiency. The distribution of agriculture-related information to farmers in the poorest communities has been made easier by the spread of mobile phones.
Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
- National Horticulture Board
- Coconut Development Board
- National Horticulture Mission (NHM)
- Physical progress: The summary details of progress achieved during 2020-21 are given
- Financial progress: During 2019-20, as on 31 st March, 2020, funds to the tune of Rs
- Financial Progress021
- National Horticulture Board (NHB) A. Physical Progress
- Development of Commercial Horticulture through Production and Post Harvest
- Capital investment subsidy scheme for construction/ expansion/modernization of
- Technology Development and Transfer for Promotion of Horticulture
- Financial Progress
- Coconut Development Board (CDB) A. Physical Progress: India being the
- Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), Nagaland
- Demonstration of Production Technologies (on and off farm)
- Production Of Quality Planting Material The numbers of rootstock raised at the
- Trainings
- PHM & Agri-Business Promotion
- Quality planting material production
- Directorate of Arecanut and Spices Development, Calicut
- Post Harvest Management & Value addition of horticultural crops
- Schemes implemented by the Directorate
- Major Achievements of DASD during 2020-21
- Directorate of Cashewnut and Cocoa Development, Kochi
- Beekeeping
- Schemes of DAC&FW for promotion of Beekeeping
- Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
- National Beekeeping & Honey Mission(NBHM)
75,000/training is implemented by the Directorate according to the cost rates provided in the operational instructions of MIDH. The main objective of the program is to develop new plantations with high-yielding cashew and cocoa varieties in farmers' fields.
National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) /National Bee Board (NBB)
- National Bee Board(NBB)
- Main activities implemented by NBB under NBHM during 2020-21
- Quality Control in Honey
- Human Resource Development/Capacity Building/ Awareness Programmes
- Seminars/ Webinars on Beekeeping
- Induction of members
- Registration of Beekeepers/ Beekeep- ing & Honey Societies/ Firms/ Companies
- Formation of FPOs in 2020-21
- Project Proposals approved under NBHM during 2020-21
- Main achievements of NBB in beekeeping/ honey production since its
- Virtual launching of Formation and Promotion of FPOs of Beekeepers/Honey Producers of the Districts of Morena, MP, Mathura (UP) Bharatpur (Rajasthan) East Champaran (Bihar)
- Two days State Level Seminar on scientific beekeeping at Sevapuri, Varanasi, UP from 22.10.2020 to 23.10.2020
- Monitoring & Evaluation at National level: A three-tier monitoring mechanism
Beekeeping has been beneficial in pollination of crops thereby increasing the income of farmers/beekeepers by increasing yield, providing honey and other high value bee products ie; beeswax, bee pollen, propolis, royal jelly, bee venom, etc., which serve as a source of livelihood for the poor in the countryside. Royal Jelly, Bee Venom, Honeycomb Honey etc., Establishment of Honey Testing Laboratory, Honey Processing & Bottling Plant, Api-Therapeutic Center, Bee Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Studies on Exploring the Potential of Highland Honey, Production of Special Honey in Kannauj & Hathras Distts.
National Food Security Mission (NFSM)
- Funding pattern: The programme is being implemented on 60:40 sharing
- Achievement during 2019-20
- New initiatives taken for increasing production and productivity of pulses from
- Special Action Plan
- Production of foodgrain: The production of foodgrain has increased substantially
- Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI)
- Overview of Edible Oil Production
The National Food Security Mission-Executive Committee (NFSMEC) under the chairmanship of Secretary (AC & FW) periodically reviewed the State Action Plans and the progress of each State's programme. Supply of Seed Minikits of legumes not older than 10 years at no cost (100% share) to farmers.
National Food Security Mission (Oilseeds & Oilpalm) – NFSM (OS&OP) Erstwhile scheme National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil palm (NMOOP)
- Overview of Oilseeds Production
- On-going Scheme: National Food Security Mission (Oilseeds & Oil Palm) –
- Strategies of Oilseeds production
- Annual Action Plan of NFSM (OS&OP) during 2020-21
- NFSM-Oilseeds
- Seed Production, Minikits and FLDs during 2020-21
- Targeting Rice Fallow Areas (TRFA) in six Eastern states and four other states
- NFSM-(Oil Palm)
- NFSM-Tree Borne Oilseeds (TBOs) Assistance under NFSM-TBOs is provided
- Budgetary Estimate (BE) and release
- Implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)
- Fund flow (%) under SCSP and TSP
- Women beneficiaries
- Extension activities
- Overview
- Centrally Sponsored Schemes
- Central Sector Schemes
- Rainfed Farming System
Strategies for improving the productivity (and profitability) of oilseed-based production systems are prepared annually in the country for oilseeds and oil palms. Currently, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Odisha are major oil palm growing states.
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) &
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
Per Drop More Crop Component of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee
PMKSY- PDMC focuses on increasing water use efficiency at the farm level through Micro Irrigation, namely Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation System. During the year, lakh ha has been brought under Micro Irrigation which is the highest coverage in a calendar year so far.
Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) Union Finance Minister in the Union Budget 2017-
Welfare is implementing the Per Drop More Crop component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY-PDMC), which has been operational in the country from 2015 to 2016. In addition to promoting micro-irrigation, this component also supports water storage or water conservation/management activities at the micro level as other interventions to complement micro-irrigation.
Rainfed Area Development (RAD) RAD is being implemented as a component of the
The total area covered by NMSA-RAD from inception to March 31, 2020 is 4.97 lakh ha. According to the amount of Rs 80.29 crore has been released to the states for implementation of the program in the current year.
National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA)
Project on identification of suitable genotypes for "Neem" based agro-forestry systems has been taken up with ICAR-CAFRI. Optimization of DNA isolation from Neem Germplasm has been completed and standardization of protocol for marker analysis to assess neem genetic diversity is underway.
Central Sector Scheme of Soil Conservation Training Centre Damodar Valley Corporation
- Objectives
- Salient Features
- Coverage
- Structure for monitoring and implementation
- Funding Pattern and release of funds The funding pattern is 60:40 between Centre
- Mission Interventions & Physical Progress
- Initiatives Taken Quality Planting Material
One of the goals of NBM is to reduce dependence on imports of bamboo and bamboo products. A Project Preliminary Report (PPR) has been submitted through the Department of Economic Affairs for the development of the bamboo sector in the North Eastern States through technical cooperation under JICA.
Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) Agroforestry is known to have the potential to
- Financial Progress: (as on 31.12.2020)
- Physical Progress
- Climate Change
Understanding of the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture has improved and promising adaptation and mitigation strategies have been identified that can help farmers cope with climate change. Under NMSA, progress on the following ten deliverables is regularly monitored and submitted to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
Soil and Land Use Survey of India (SLUSI) Soil and Land Use Survey of India (SLUSI) was
SLUSI has been entrusted with preparing soil fertility maps based on soil health card data in villages of 37 aspirational districts (NITI AYOG) in the country under Krishi Kalyan Abhiyan (KKA-I & II). Preparation for soil fertility mapping of the remaining villages is underway in collaboration with the state agriculture department and with SHC data provided by NIC.
INM & Organic Farming
11 Physical verification of stores not up to date Urgent action needs to be taken. 12 Proper procedure was not followed in removing rejected items from the office.
Assessment of Fertilizers:-
Consumption of chemical fertilizers:- Consumption of important chemical fertilizers along with N,P,K nutrients since 2010-11 is given below:-.
Soil Health Management (SHM)
Soil Health Card
Under the scheme, 2.53 crore soil samples were collected and tested and 10.74 crore Soil Health Cards were distributed to farmers across states in the first cycle (2015-17). Similarly in the second cycle millions of soil samples were collected and tested and 11.83 crore Soil Health Cards were distributed to farmers.
Financial Status
A total of 6954 villages were identified by the States/UTs in which against the target of 22.51 lakh samples, 19.90 lakh samples were collected, 18.11 lakh samples were analyzed and 18.19 lakh cards were distributed to farmers. In order to motivate farmers for regular soil testing and adoption of soil testing recommendations, farmer trainings will be organized in 98515 selected villages by states through Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) / State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) during 2020-21.
Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
During 2019-20 a pilot project 'Development of Model Villages' was taken up where soil sample collection was done at individual farm holdings instead of sample collection at grids.
The components of the scheme are as follows
Physical and Financial Progress of the PKVY scheme
Phase II: Total amount allocated for the scheme from 2018-19 to 2020-
Under PKVY, a total 6.19 lakh ha area covered and 15.47 lakh farmers have
- Brand names under PKVY
- Financial Status
- Success Story - Mr. Sindhi Majhi (Farmer)
- Suresh Desai
- Kailash Murthy
- Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region
With a view to marketing organic products and supporting farmers, the organic certification program has been extended for a fourth year. He has grown all the above crops according to the methods of organic farming.
Major Components of MOVCDNER
- Another Milestone in the Forward Linkage arrangement by MOVCD NER Team
- Overview
- Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)
The objective of the scheme is to increase the household income of all landowning farmers subject to certain exclusion criteria related to higher income status. Identification of beneficiaries for the Scheme is the sole responsibility of the State/UT Governments, who upload their necessary details on the PM-KISAN portal to enable transfer of benefits to them.
Pradhan Mantri KIsan SAmman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)
Review, Monitoring and Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Setting up of Project Monitoring Unit (PMU)
Pradhan Mantri Kisan MaanDhan Yojana (PM-KMY)
- Salient features
- Aims and objective of the Schème There have been a series of interventions for
- Beneficiaries of the Scheme
- Exclusion criteria
- Mechanism of Implementation of the Scheme
- Review, Monitoring and Grievance Redressal Mechanism
- Project Monitoring Unit(PMU)
If the spouse dies after the vesting date, the pension corpus is transferred back to the Pension Fund. xiv). The application will be made by the sponsor bank/IDBI on behalf of the LIC of India.
National Crop Insurance Programme (NCIP)
- Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
- Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS)
- Coconut Palm Insurance Scheme (CPIS)
- Policy initiatives for increasing the flow of credit
However, the scheme has been made voluntary for all farmers, including farmers on loan from Kharif 2020. The coverage of women farmers under PMFBY has remained stable since the inception of the scheme.
Agricultural Credit
The KCC program along with the benefit of IS & PRI has been extended to farmers practicing livestock farming and fishing. The standardized application form for KCC is designed for easy understanding by farmers and a deadline of 14 days (from the receipt of the farmer's application) has been set to issue KCC to all eligible farmers.
Overview
Agricultural Marketing Reforms
Agricultural Marketing
Achievements
The Directorate of Marketing & Inspection (DMI), an affiliated office of DAC&FW, has formulated and uploaded tradable parameters for 175 commodities. e) Considering the importance of integrating farmers, including fruit and vegetable growers, with agro-industry, with the aim of mitigating market and price uncertainties, reducing post-harvest losses and creating rural employment, it ministry formulated and released a Model Law; “The ---State/UT contract farming for agricultural produce and livestock. Further, on October 20, 2020, the central government framed rules called the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Rules, 2020.
IAs like Karnataka State Watershed Development Department, NAFED, MoRD, SFAC-Haryana, SFAC - Tamil Nadu and NERAMAC-DONER were assigned the responsibility of formation of FPOs, apart from the initial three IAs. About 2,200 groups have been allocated for the formation of FPOs in various AIs for the Financial Year 2020-21, which include specialized FPOs such as Old Seeds, Organic Products, Honey, etc.
Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM)
- Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI)
- Marketing Research & Information Network (MRIN)
- Strengthening of Agmark Grading Facilities (SAGF)
- Chaudhary Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing
- Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC)
- National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’
The main objective of the scheme is to promote the development of agricultural marketing infrastructure including storage infrastructure in the country. The program aims to sensitize officials of the Department of Agricultural Marketing and allied departments about various development programs launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Govt.
Online Payment
- Bunching of multiple invoices: Bunching of selected invoices for single payment
- Auto sale agreement: Auto sale agreement feature has been added to
- Farmer Friendly Mobile App
- Unified trading licensing system for inter state: This feature has been created for
- e-NAM shopping cart: e-NAM shopping cart is a way to enable buyers to select
- Discounts to traders in mandi fee at the time of e-Payment: To incentivize
- Improved Website and e-Learning: A new enhanced website is supporting
- BHIM payment facility: Currently the e-NAM portal facilitates direct online
- Logistic Information Module: A logistics module was integrated in e-NAM,
- e-NAM infrastructure upgradation (V2)
- Part payment feature for farmers: Part payment feature for farmers is enabled
- Farmer incentive feature for electronic payment: A feature has been embedded
- FPO trading module: FPO trading module whereby FPOs can trade their
- Logistic module: In addition to facilitate inter-mandi and inter-state trade at this
- e-NWR module: ‘Negotiable Warehouse Receipt’ (e-NWRs) based trading module
- ReML-UMP: e-NAM has achieved interoperability with UMP-ReML of
- Kisan Rath
- National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Success Stories
- Amendment to the Constitution in Respect of Cooperatives
To avail the facilities, application administrators in the state can configure desired discount percentages in. Inder Singh decided to sell the same products through e-NAM with the help of e-NAM staff and got a price of Rs.4005. 4005 per quintal for the same product.
Agricultural Cooperation
- Major Schemes – Objectives
- Assistance to NCDC Programmes for Development of Cooperatives
- Scheme under Umbrella Scheme of PM- AASHA implemented by DAC&FW
- Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) The Department also implements a Market
- Assistance to NCDC Programmes for Development of Cooperatives
- Assistance to Multi-State Cooperative Societies
- Assistance for Cooperative Education and Training
- Target and Achievement
- Training Network of NCCT
- Collaborative Programmes organised in association with other Organisations
- Objectives of NCCT
- Target and Achievement
- Central Sector Scheme of Financing Facility under the Agriculture Infrastructure
- Overview
- India’s Agriculture Trade .1 Agri-Export
In the last 3 years, NCDC has allocated 110 million rupees to the Government of Kerala for the integrated development of the coir sector. During the year 2019-20, no grant was awarded to CICTAB for conducting an international training program for staff working in cooperatives of SAARC countries.
Agriculture Trade Policy, Promotion and Logistics Development
- Agri-Imports
- EXIM Policy of Agricultural Commodities
- EXPORT
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy in the Agriculture Sector
- Goods and Services Tax
- Trade Agreement
- FTA/CECA/CEPA/CECPA
- WTO Meetings/Notifications
- Trade Policy Reviews under WTO
- Strengthening India’s Agri Export–
- Export Promotion Forum (EPF)
- Institutional Mechanism for in-house Knowledge Management
- Commodity Profile
- Audit Para
- Overview
- Objectives of RKVY-RAFTAAR scheme The objectives of the scheme are
The Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) was launched as a flagship scheme of the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation. The State Agriculture Department is the nodal Department for implementation of the scheme in the State.
Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)
- Funding pattern under RKVY-RAFTAAR
- District and State Agricultural Plans
- Income/Production and Target/
- Implementation of Sub-schemes
- Innovation & Agri-Entrepreneurship programme: A new progamme called
- Success Stories
- Guar Gum – A remunerative crop for dryland Agriculture
- Agri startup success stories Aditya Bioinnovation Pvt Ltd
Objectives of RKVY-RAFTAAR Scheme The objectives of the scheme are: The objectives of the scheme are:. The Government of India complements the efforts of state governments by providing necessary financial and logistical support in the wake of natural disasters.
Drought Management
