minutes of the national rabi conference on agriculture - 2019

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The National Conference on Agriculture for Rabi Campaign, 2019 was held on 20^th September, 2019 at NASC Complex, Pusa, New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Parshottam Rupala.

The Conference started with the National Anthem followed by lightening of the lamp by the dignitaries. Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Secretary, Department of Fertilizers and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education & DG-ICAR participated in the Conference alongwith Agriculture Production Commissioners and Principal Secretaries/Secretaries/Directors of Agriculture, senior scientists from ICAR and officers & officials from Ministries and agencies. List of participants is at Annexure-I.

1. Additional Secretary, Smt. Vasudha Mishra welcomed the participants and briefly outlined regarding the purpose of the Conference. She informed that DAC&FW and DARE have been working in association in 150 districts across the country on exploring various options on strengthening and promoting the concept of sustainable development of agriculture for which support of the State/UT Governments is needed.

2. Secretary, DAC&FW in his address stated that henceforth four conferences namely Rabi, Kharif, Zaid and Horticulture will be organized by DAC& FW every year given the importance of agriculture sector. He lauded the efforts of the States in area coverage of the crops. He highlighted the importance of the seed and its availability / requirement and requested states to look into seed hub programmes organized for pulses, millets, oilseeds etc. He requested states for active involvement for distribution of seed varieties developed by ICAR. He informed that from Rabi 2019 distribution of seed varieties of more than ten years old shall not be allowed through minikits and State/UT Governments are required to actively participate in making available the newly developed seed varieties.

He informed regarding waiving of initial charges, enhancement in limit and fixing timeline for delivery of KCC and requested State/UT Government to actively monitor the issue of new KCCs through Saturation device in their respective States and send quarterly /fortnightly report to this Department. He requested State Governments to ensure that short term crop loan is disbursed through KCC, and ensure conversion of

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agri. gold loan accounts to KCC accounts for which campaign should be taken up by them. He urged the States which are yet to furnish their comments on proposed changes in PMFBY urgently. He informed that an app would be developed shortly for custom hiring and states should take proactive steps to facilitate it. He informed that for purchase of kharif crops at MSP necessary permission for procurement would be granted within 72 hours. He intimated that for smooth enrolment under PM-KISAN and PM-KMY necessary facility for registration of farmers at nearest CSC would be provided and the facility for bulk enrolment of farmers by States as well as online facility for registration by farmers would be provided shortly. He clarified that PM-KMY is a subset of PM-KISAN and requested states to ensure that every eligible farmers of PM-KISAN should be covered in PM-KMY. He informed that release of their installment under PM- KISAN will be made after aadhar seeding of the data hence states should need concerted efforts in this regard. Secretary further intimated that the data of eight crore farmers covered under PM-KISAN shall be shared with commercial banks who agreed to look into their coverage under KCC.

Secretary, AC&FW lauded the efforts of Government of Tamil Nadu in respect of contract farming and informed that Department of Consumer Affairs has already issued a notification through which contract farming has been kept outside the EC act.

Implementation of APMC and warehousing has been declared in Andhra Pradesh/Telangana and requested other states to emulate it. Secretary further informed that under micro irrigation funds of Rs. 5000 crores available with NABARD may be used by State/UT Governments.

3. Secretary, DARE in his address reiterated the goal set for enhancing / doubling the income of farmers by the year 2022 and informed that for achieving the same ICAR is developing technologies and passing it to states the scheme of DAC and other Departments. He informed that more than 5000 varieties have been developed by ICAR so far and out of this more than 1100 varieties have been developed in past 5 years.

More than 50% of the varieties developed in the past three years are climate resilient and have been documented and already sent to States. 45 varieties developed are bio fortified genetically with anti-nutritional elements. He gave some examples of mustard and wheat varieties developed recently, which should be promoted by states. He informed regarding seed hubs established where pure high quality seeds are available

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and requested for support of DAC&FW and states for making available it to farmers. He highlighted that Fall Army Worm is a serious threat and the IPM practices recommended by ICAR may be adopted in toto. He urged that State Governments should take effective steps for flow of information to farmers so that vision of the Government from lab to land initiated for enhancing the income of farmers by ICAR should reach them. Secretary, DARE informed that KVKs have identified 2 villages in each district for doubling the income of farmers and requested for support of states in their emulation.

4. Secretary, Department of Fertilizer in his address informed that a dashboard has been developed and requested states to ascertain their utility for supply position to farmers. Requirement at district level has been created and requested that State Department of Agriculture may oversee, modify and send it to DAC&FW / Department of Fertilizers. He highlighted the initiatives of Department of Fertilizer for balanced use of fertilizers and requested that new and innovative fertilizer is testified and the knowledge may go to farmers. He further impressed that there is need for awareness among the farmers regarding bio-fertilizer, vermi compost and other traditional fertilizers. He informed the House that Department of Fertilizer is deliberating the issue of passing of subsidy on fertilizer directly to famers as well as working on concept paper on buffer stocks of urea. He requested the States to give their feedback on the proposed initiatives in due course.

5. On this occasion, Hon’ble MOS (PR) unveiled a publication of ICAR called Field Crop Varieties 2014-19. He thanked Secretary DoF for making fertilizers availability to the farmers in time. He noted that both production and demand are made in time, still there are problems in smooth transportation of fertilizer to the farmers during crop season. He urged upon the states to ensure that local transportation facilities are strengthened for quicker delivery of fertilizer to the farmers during crop season. He pointed out that due to heavy rain and flood in some parts of the country, farmers have incurred huge losses in view of damage of standing crops. The concerned States may see as to whether these areas are covered under Fasal Bima Yojana to compensate the losses to the farmers.

Honourable Minister while lauding the efforts of the states in achieving record production of pulses desired that states should aggressively focus on oilseed production

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to cut the import subsidy sizeable. He informed that India is celebrating 150^th Year of Gandhi Jayanti and on this occasion we need a concerted effort to integrate schemes of Central and State Government and launch an awareness programme and showcase success stories to the farmers through a march. He drew the attention on recent attack by tidies in Rajasthan and requested to tackle the problem in a cohesive manner. He desired that district level approach may be adopted for achieving the goal of enhancing the income of farmers. Hon’ble Minister stated that we are fortunate to work in agriculture sector and appealed all the participants to work for the benefit of farmers in an exemplary manner which satisfies your inner soul.

6. After the inaugural session, presentations were made by Agriculture Commissioner on Kharif review and Rabi prospects followed by presentations by various Divisional Heads of DAC&FW on schemes, programmes / activities and presentation by representatives of Department of Fertilizer, ICAR as well as presentations by representatives of state Government of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh on following topics :

i. Presentation on Kharif Review and Rabi prospects by Agriculture Commissioner.

ii. Presentation by JS(Seed).

iii. Presentation on Fertilizers by JS (Fertilizers)

iv. Presentation on Flagship Schemes of PMFBY/Credit

v. Presentation on flagship Schemes (PM-Kisan/PM-KMY) by JS(FW) vi. Presentation on MSP Operation by JS( Cooperation)

vii. Presentation on Active role of KVKs in Promotion of sustainable Agriculture Practices in Selected Districts to commemorate the 150^th Birth Anniversrary of Mahatma Gandhi by DDG (Extn.), ICAR

viii. Presentation on Marketing Reforms by JS ( Marketing)

ix. Presentation by Officers of State Government of Karnataka on Public Private Partnership for Integrated Agriculture Development (PPIAD).

x. Presentation by Officers of State Government of Tamil Nadu on Micro Irrigation.

xi. Presentation on Extension Initiatives by Officers of State Government of UP.

Copies of all the above presentations have been emailed to all State/UT Governments and these are also available on the website of this Department i.e.

www.agricoop.nic.in .

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7. After the above mentioned presentations open house discussion took place in which representatives of the states/UTs raised various issues. The issues raised by States alongwith response of this Department have been detailed at Annexure – II.

8. Secretary, DAC&FW in his concluding remarks thanked all the participants for giving valuable suggestions during the course of deliberation. He impressed upon the States/UTs to include all eligible farmers under PM-KISAN scheme and also requested to look into the district-wise variation of beneficiaries under PM-KISAN so as to cover all the eligible beneficiaries and launch a campaign for it. He also requested the states to complete the task of verification of 5% beneficiaries and send a report to this Department at the earliest. He requested that all the beneficiaries of PM-KISAN shall be provided KCC expeditiously. He urged the states to prepare seed plan for meeting the requirement of seeds including minikits. He requested all the states to actively participate in the activities of the ICAR plan on the occasion of 150^th Year of Gandhi Jayanti. Finally, Secretary requested states to take concerted efforts for agri-marketing reforms as well as for contract farming.

The meeting ended with the vote of thanks to the Chair by Shri Rajesh Verma, Addl. Secy

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Annexure-I

List of Participants in the National Conference on Agriculture for Rabi Campaign, 2019 held on 20

^th

September,2019 at Pusa, New

Delhi

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION & FARMERS WELFARE

1. Sh. Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary, DAC&FW 2. Sh. C. Raul, Secretary, Fertilizer

3. Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, DG (ICAR)

4. Smt. Vasudha Mishra, Additional Secretary 5. Sh. Rajesh Verma, Additional Secretary 6. Dr. Alka Bhargava, Additional Secretary 7. Sh. B. Pardhan, AS&FA

8. Dr. S.K. Malhotra, Agriculture Commissioner 9. Dr. Abhilaksh Likhi, JS(GC)

10. Sh. Vivek Agarwal, JS(FW/Crops) 11. Dr. Tarsem Chand, JS(Admn) 12. Sh. P.K. Swain, JS (Marketing) 13. Smt. Chhavi Jha, JS(PC/RKVY) 14. Sh. Rajbir Singh JS(MIDH)

15. Dr. Namita Priyadarshee, JS(NRM) 16. Smt. A. Neeraja, JS(INM)

17. Ms. Shomita Biswas, JS(IT/Policy) 18. Sh. Ashwani Kumar, JS(Seeds/M&T) 19. Smt. Shubha Thakur, JS(RFS)

20. Ms. Gurveen Sidhu, JS(GS), DOF

21. Sh. Rajesh Kumar Kamra, ADG, DAC&FW 22. Dr. Ranjeet Singh, DDG, IMD

23. Ms. Subhra, Adviser (Trade)

24. Sh. Amitabh Pradhan, Adviser (DES)

25. Dr. B. N. S. Murthy, Horticulture Commissioner 26. Dr. M. J. M Reddy, GM, IFFCO

27. Dr. Man Singh, Director, DSD, Lucknow

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28. Ms. S. Rukmani, Director (Credit) 29. Dr. Virendra Singh, Director, DRD

30. Sh. Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Director (FW) 31. Sh. Pankaj Tyagi, Director(RFS)

32. Sh. K. R. Meena, Director

33. Sh. Arun Kumar, Director (Extn.) 34. Sh. K. C. Sahoo, GM, FCI, New Delhi 35. Dr. Anupam Barik, ADC (Crops) 36. Dr. S.S. Tomar, ADC(Crops) 37. Dr. Y. R. Meena, ADC (Extn.) 38. Sh. Kalash Chaudhry, DS(GC)

39. Sh. Prem Narayan Shukla, DS (Admn.) 40. Dr. Subhash Chandra Ram, DC (RFS) 41. Dr. Ramanand, DC (RFS)

42. Smt. Kamna R. Sharma, DC(Credit) 43. Sh. B. V. N. Rao, DC (RFS)

44. Dr. Ram Saneshi, DC (Crops) 45. Dr. Sanjay Kumar, DC (Hort.) 46. Dr. N. K. Patle, DC (Hort.) 47. Sh. B. K. Srivastava, DC (Crops)

48. Sh. B. L. Meena, Addl. Eco. Advisor, DES 49. Sh. Manish, DD(AC)

50. Sh. S. M. Khailkar, JD(Extn.) 51. Sh. Diganta Thapa, JD

52. Dr. Sudhir Kumar, JD, DoE 53. Sh. Balram Singh, JD, DAC&FW 54. Sh. Anand Krishan, JD(RKVY) 55. Sh. Sajith Kumar, JD, DoE 56. Dr. J. P. Yadav, JD, DoE 57. Sh. K. K. Das, JD(Crops)

58. Sh. L. R. Buldak, JD, DMD, Jaipur 59. Dr. N. Sathyanaran, JD, Faridabad 60. Sh. Sukumarmadi, JD, DCD, Nagpur 61. Sh. Rahul Singh, DD

62. Sh. S. M. Khelikar, JD

63. Dr. K. Ponnusamy, JD, DoD, Hyd.

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64. Sh. Ganesh Singh, US( RKVY) 65. Sh. T. Khaling, US (CA-II) 66. Sh. Brijesh Godra, US (Admn.) 67. Sh. Ram Kumar, CAO (DES) 68. Sh. Harit K Shakya, US (RFS) 69. Sh. Ram Naresh, US(GC) 70. Sh. Jay Prakash, US, DFPD 71. Sh. V. K. Srivastava, US (Trade) 72. Sh A. K. Jha, US(FW-II)

73. Sh. Shekhar Bose, US(Coop) 74. Sh. Ashok Kr. Singh, AC (Crops) 75. Sh. D. V. Dilip Kumar, AC

76. Sh. Yogesh, AC 77. Sh. S. P. Gupta, AC 78. Dr. Maan Singh, AC 79. Sh. S. P. Gupta, AC

80. Dr. Maan Singh, AC(NRM) 81. Dr. Chandra Mohan, AC(Seeds) 82. Sh. Mahesh Kumar Pandey, AD(OL) 83. Dr. Somanath Agasimai, AC(Crops) 84. Dr. Rajesh Kr. Singh, AD (Seeds) 85. Dr. Brijesh Tripathi, AD

86. Sh. Avinash Vanam, AD 87. Smt. G. Sandhya Rani, AD 88. Sh. Sushil Kumar, AD

89. Sh. Raj Kumar, Manager, NABARD 90. Sh. Rajesh Kumar Singh, AD

91. Sh. Anoop Kumar, SO (IC) 92. Smt. Sunita Gularia, SO 93. Smt. Jasbir Kaur, SO 94. Ms. Meghna Mukharji, SO 95. Sh. Sanjeev Singh, SO(GC)

96. Sh. Swarnendu Singha, SO(FW-I) 97. Sh. S. Sen Gupta, SO

98. Sh. Manoj Sharma, AD 99. Sh. S. R. Kachru, Consultant

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100. Dr. P.K. Saha, NC (NFSM) 101. Dr. Manish Singh, NC (RFS) 102. Sh. Vikram Shekhawat, NC(RFS) 103. Sh. C. M. Pandey, NC

104. Dr. D. S. Rana, NC

105. Smt. Neha Bhalla, Consultant 106. Smt. Akshita Goyal, Consultant

107. Sh. Bhupendra Singh, Consultant (NFSM) 108. Dr. D. P. Singh, NFSM

109. Sh. D. S. Mishra, Consultant, NFSM 110. Sh. Dilip Kr. Tiwari, Consultant 111. Ms. Vandana Vasistha, Consultant 112. Sh. Prem N. Saini, Sr. Tech Assistant 113. Smt. Niti Sukhija, ASO

114. Smt. Renu Ogra, ASO(PC) 115. Smt. Neha Kumari, ASO(Horti) 116. Sh. Raj Kumar Singh, ASO 117. Sh. Raju, Assistant

118. Sh. R. N. Verma, Assitant, NFSM 119. Sh. Prathvi Nath, TO

120. Dr. Subhadip Nandi, TA(NFSM) 121. Sh. Siddharth Tripathi, TA

122. Sh. Dharmendra Singh, ASO(RFS) 123. Sh. Rajendra Kumar Meena, ASO(GC)

124. Smt. Shubhani Saxena, Webcasting Crew, Extension 125. Smt. Poojita Singh, Webcasting, Extension

126. Sh. Jitendra Kumar, Software Programmer, DAC(IT) 127. Sh. Rahul Saini, MO (DMI)

128. Sh. S. K. Joshi, Extn.

129. Sh. Vijay Kumar, ASCO

130. Sh. Brijesh Kumar, STO(Seeds)

131. Sh. Ankit Kumar Verma, STA, DSD, Lucknow 132. Dr. Pooja Pande, TA

133. Smt. Suman, Accountant 134. Sh. Deepak Kr. Yadav, STA 135. Sh. Ambanna. P. STA(Crops)

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136. Sh. Vijay Kumar, STA(Crops) 137. Sh. S. Srikanth, STA, DoD, Hyd.

138. Sh. Suraj Prakash, Head Pro.

139. Sh. B. S. Rawat, OS 140. Sh. Shyoram, STA

141. Dr. Ram Narayan, STA, DMD, Jaipur 142. Dr. Arvind Kumar, STA, DRD, Patna 143. Sh. Nitin Chandra, JSO, DoF

144. Dr. S. K. Joshi, Asstt. Editor 145. Sh. Satendra Singh, Steno 146. Sh. Ashwani Kumar, Steno 147. Sh. Santosh Yadav, Steno

ICAR

1. Dr. P. S. Pandey, ADG (Ag. Edn) 2. Dr. T. Janakiram, ADG

3. Sh. S. K. Jha, ADG

4. Dr. D. K. Yadav, ADG (Seeds) 5. Sh. A. K. Singh, DDG (Extn.) 6. Sh. H. P. Singh, Technical Officer NSC

1. Sh. V. K. Gaur, CMD 2. Sh. Deepak Rastogi, GM

NCDC

1. Sr. Bikramjit Singh, Chief Director 2. Shri Dev Kalyan, Prog. Off

PIB

1. Sh. Joyce Philip, DD

2. Smt. Rity Bora, Production Executor, DD 3. Sh. Arvind Kumar Singh, Rajya Sabha TV.

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STATES & UTs ANDHRA PRADESH

1. Sh. Arun Kumar, Commissioner 2. Dr. Prabhu Lal Singh, Director

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

1. Sh. Tadu Game, Joint Director 2. Sh. N. Ragrang, ADO (Dte. of Agri) 3. Sh. Okit Palling, ADO(Wet)

ASSAM

Sh. Manoj Kumar, Director Agriculture

BIHAR

1. Sh. N. Saravan Kumar, Secretary, Agri 2. Sh, Dharanjay Pali Tripathi ,Joint Director 3. Sh. Rajendra Kumar Verma, DD Farm (Agri.) 4. Sh. Ani K. Jha, Deputy Director, Agri.

CHATTISGARH

1. Sh M.S. Kerketta, Add. Dircetor, Agri.

2. Dr. S.R. Ratre, G.M, Agri

3. Sh. I.K. Jaiswal, Maneger, Agri

DELHI

1. Sh. Dalbir Singh, Seeds Agronomist 2 Sh.Somvir Arya, Agronomist

GUJARAT

1. Sh. Poonamchand Parmar, ACS (Agri.) 2. Sh. M. Modi, Directorate of Agriculture.

3. Sh, N.M. Shukla, Joint Director

4. Sh, M. Rizawan Ghonchi, Asst Director.

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GOA

Sh. Kuldeep Singh Gangar, Secretary, Agri HARYANA

Sh. Suresh Gehlawat, Addl. Director (Extn.)

HIMACHAL PRADESH

1. Sh. D.R. Rajni, JDA, Agri 2. Sh. H. R. Thakur, DDA, Agri 3. Dr. B.R. Raju, JDA,Agri 4. Dr. R. Dhrenjay, SMS Agri.

5. Dr. Hem raj, DDA, Agri JHARKHAND

1 Dr. Subhash Singh, Director sameti.

2 Sh. B.K. Zutshi Joint Director, Agri.

KARNATAKA

1. Sh. Prabhash Chandra Ray, Commissioner, Agri 2. Sh. B. K. Dikshit, Commissioner

3. Smt. Deepaja S.M, JD

4. Smt. Shobha H.B, Joint Director 5. Sh. Divakara. M.S, Additional Director

MADHYA PRADESH

1. Sh. Mukesh Shukla, Dir, Agri, 2. Sh. G.S. Chowan, J.D.A, Agri MAHARASHTRA

1. Sh. Ekanath Dawale, Secretary, Agriculture 2. Sh. Shisode N.T, Director.

3. Dr. Bhaskar Pathi, Dy G.M

4. Sh. P.D Sigedar, Deputy Director 5. Sh. Hari Babtiwale, Deputy Director.

MIZORAM

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1. Ms. Lolengzami Haoai, Deputy Director, Agri 2. Sh. Varzamliana, PPO, Agri

NAGALAND

1. Sh. L. Hangering, JD, Agri

2. Smt. Temsunaro Aier, Addl. Secretray 3. Sh. Letkhalal Haugshing, Joint Director.

ODISHA

1. Sh. Saurabh Garg, Principal Secretary, Agriculture 2. Sh. S. P. Mohopatra, Project Director (Bamboo Dev.

Agency)

3. Sh. B.K Upadhyaya, Director Horticulture PUDUCHERRY

Dr. Jayanta Kumar Roy, ARC, Agriculture

PUNJAB

Sh Sarbjeet Singh, Joint Director, Agriculture.

RAJASTHAN

Sh. B.L. Meena, Joint Director, Agri SIKKIM

1. Sh. Jagdish Pradhan, Addl. Director, Agri.

2. Sh. R.P. Thapa, Addl. Director, Agri.

3. Sh. Tilak Gajmer, Addl. Director, Agri.

TAMIL NADU

1. Sh. Gagandeep Singh Bedi, APC/Principal Secretary 2. Smt.S. Shoba, Deputy Director

3. Sh. P. Sankaralingam, Additional Director 4. Sh. S. Sankra Subramani

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TELANGANA

Sh. Balu, Joint Director, Agri WEST BENGAL

Sh Saraj Gwose, Addl Director, Agri TRIPURA

1. Dr. D.P. Sarkar, Director (Agri) 2. Sh. R. Deb Barua, Dy. Director UTTAR PRADESH

1. Sh. A.M Prasad, Principal Secretary 2. Sh. G.S. N. Kumar, Spl. Secretary 3. Sh. B.P. Singh, ADA, Agri.

4. Sh. Pushpraj Singh, DDA, Agri.

5. Sh. Masoom Ali Sama, SS, Agri.

6. Dr. R.S. Verma, PPO, Agri 7. Sh. R.S. Dixit, Engg, Agri.

8. Smt. Vijay Laxmi, PHD, Agri.

9. Dr. Saraj Singh, Director, Agri UTTRAKHAND

1. Shri Gouri Shankar, Director, Agri 2. Mr. Dinesh Kumar, Joint Director, Agri 3. Sh. Vijay Kumar, MD

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Annexure – II Issues raised by State/ UT Governments and response of this Department thereto during open house discussion in the Rabi Conference, 2019

Odisha :

i. Under PSS there is a need to assure farmers for purchase of pulses and oilseeds based on last three years production and accordingly target may be fixed.

ii. Under Fasal Bima Yojana although there is a provision for crop damage by wild animals but 100 % of the premium is borne by states. Further, the coverage due to inundation provided previously has been removed.

iii. Smart phone are used for Crop Cutting Experiments (CCE) for data collection for which incentives should be given to farmers.

iv. Dashboard has been developed at block level for monitoring of various Central / State schemes and further, farmers profiling for customized advisory has been set up through which voice messages are given to farmers within 48 hours.

v. Under PM-KSY subsidy calculation includes GST which may be excluded from it.

Response of this Department:

Secretary appreciated the dashboard and customized advisory developed by Government of Odisha and requested states to emulate it. The issue of exclusion of GST from subsidy component under PMKSY would be looked into. Based on estimated production state may send their proposal for purchase of pulses and oil seeds any time and the necessary permission would be granted by this Department.

Tamil Nadu:

i. Out of 150 active markets under e-NAM, fund for infrastructure development have been provided only to 63 markets. For the remaining market, software and use credentials may be provided.

ii. Under NFSM there is a cap of more than 10000 hectares for getting assistance which may be relaxed for the production of millets and pulses.

iii. Under Seed Village Programmes, assistance is provided to 1 acre of land per beneficiary which may be increased to 1 hectare (2.5 acre).

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iv. For seed storage godowns, assistance of Rs. 60 lakh is provided for 500 MT godowns which is only sufficient to set up 300-350 MT capacity. The cap of 500 MT capacity may be removed.

v. Necessary assistance may be given in case of attack by Fall Army Worm.

Secretary informed that a meeting to deliberate the issue of Fall Army Worm has been fixed on 1^st October, 2019. Not a single reference of any State /UT is pending under e- NAM. State may send a reference. The issue of Seed Village Programme raised by State has been noted. JS (Crops) advised the states to send a proposal for assistance under NFSM as a replacement of paddy area and for utilizing 10 % flaxi funds, amended action plan may be sent to this Department.

Maharashtra :

i. The area declared as drought is not qualifying in CCE under guidelines / drought manual.

ii. State may be allowed age relaxation for crop varieties in Vidarbha.

Secretary informed that in case of variation in monsoon state may use SDRF /NDRF funds. Any damage of crop is covered under PMFBY. Additional Secretary, Smt. Vasudha Mishra suggested the States to send a proposal in this regard. Agriculture Commissioner informed that only for promoting pulses, oilseeds, millets and new varieties of gram, age relaxation is provided. JS (Crops) advised to send specific case in this regard.

Karnataka :

i. For settlement of claim under PMFBY private companies are insisting on bank guarantee.

ii. In Karnataka 100% crop survey are made through app developed.

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Secretary assured to look into the matter relating to PMFBY issue. He informed that for CCE app has been developed and from kharif 2020, 100% CCE report of the State would be through these apps.

Gujarat:

i. For promoting natural farming there is a need to develop crop-wise standard practice.

ii. Necessary recommendation for pest management in field crop may be provided.

iii. Under micro-irrigation for MIS adoption there is a need to increase the command area.

Secretary advised the representative of Gujarat to be in touch with JS concerned for promotion of natural farming. For locust control only trained person would be allowed for locust control activities in the farm field and promised to send alternatives in this regard. For micro-irrigation state may send a proposal to this Department.

Andhra Pradesh:

i. Inundation of paddy earlier included under PMFBY has been removed is an issue.

ii. For quality testing of pesticides samples are sent to referral lab which is located at Faridabad and takes a lot of time to test the sample.

iii. Under farm mechanization scheme the user charges in Tribal areas may be further subsidized.

iv. There is a need to extend the age of beneficiary from existing years under PM- KMY

Agriculture Commissioner clarified that the central insecticide lab establishment is mandated to send the report within 30 days of its receipt. However, any delay in getting the report would be reviewed. The issue of inundation of paddy under PMFBY has been

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noted. Any subsidy of user charges under customer hiring may be borne by State Government. The extant decision of the Government i.e age group of 18-40 years will remain eligible under PM-KMY.

Arunachal Pradesh:

i. Under PMKSY, subsidy @ 55 % is allowed under sprinkler irrigation system which may be considered to be increased.

ii. The number of harvesting unit may be considered to be increased under NFSM.

Secretary informed that 5000 crore of funds are available with NABARD which may be used by the states under micro irrigation system. State should suggest the number of units required under NFSM and accordingly send the proposal to this Department.

Bihar:

i. In Bihar, there is large variation in the area shown due to floods and there is no system for supporting such farmers. Hence, Government of Bihar has allocated Rs. 3000 to farmers in the current kharif season. Government of India should consider to supplement the subsidy for diesel and support to farmers in such a situation.

ii. Registration of 95 lakh farmers have been made through DBT portal of State Government and benefits under PM-KISAN, PM-KMY and other schemes of the State Government are provided to these registered farmers.

Secretary advised the states to study the drought manual and advised that drought should be declared tehsil –wise. He further informed that no proposal in this regard has been received from State Government. Secretary pointed out that Bihar has a potential to benefit 1.5 crore beneficiaries under PM-KISAN. However, only 43 lakh eneficiaries have been identified. As such there is need to review the modalities for enrolment of farmers which appears to be complicated one. Government of Bihar may replicate the

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scheme for identification of beneficiaries in UP and Haryana and consider to change in the strategy so as to increase the coverage of beneficiaries under PM-KISAN.

Uttar Pradesh:

i. Under Seed Village Programme, there is cap on subsidy especially on rate of seed which is high. The same should be considered and be removed.

ii. The cap of 1 acre area fixed under Seed Village Programme may be enhanced to 1 hectare (2.5 acre).

iii. Under Soil Testing Lab scheme assistance of Rs. 1.20 crore per unit is provided. For setting of 6 STLs fund of Rs. 7.2 crore is required against which State Government has proposed to purchase 6 STLs of Rs. 60 lakh each costing Rs. 3.60 lakh which may be considered.

iv. Age relaxation of seed variety may please be considered.

JS (Crops) clarified that seed subsidy for normal crop( high volume low value) seems adequate. He further requested all the states to involve their agencies for distribution of seed minikits. He informed that age relaxation provided upto 7 years will remain applicable so that newly developed seed varieties can be populated. The proposal of State Government to purchase STLs would be looked into.

West Bengal:

i. Under NFSM, oilseeds of less than five years old are promoted which may be increased upto 10 years.

ii. For production of maize in new districts of West Bengal the provision of area of 10000 acre under NFSM may be relaxed. Use of flexi funds could not be utilized as provided in BGREI.

iii. Seed subsidy for pulses may be given in rice fallow area.

iv. Financial allocation under mechanization scheme should be considered.

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Response of the Department:

JS (Crops) clarified that for commercial crops 5 plus 2 is equal to 7 years are provided under NFSM and NMOOP. Flexi fund could be utilized and revised Annual Action Plan may be sent to this Department. State should consider crop replacement model from water guzzling to less water crop. For mechanization flexibility is already provided machine –wise. He further informed that State Conference in this regard i.e. TFRA meeting has already been scheduled to be held in West Bengal on 21^st October, 2019.

Rajasthan:

i. Cap on subsidy on other intervention in PMKSY should be removed.

ii. No support for fertigation is provided.

State Government was advised to use labour component under MNREGA. For fertigation support State Government may send a proposal with justification.

Chhattisgarh:

i. Under BGREI, availability of seeds has been ensured however, subsidy has not been provided.

ii. Seeds of thyrus, niger and mustard are available which may be utilized by the states.

JS(Corps) advised to furnish revised Annual Action Plan for increase in area as well as requirement for seed subsidy. Representative of state was advised to discuss the issue of seed with CMD, NSC alongwith available varieties for their disposal.

Telangana:

i. Under seed control order bulk seed samples are drawn however, the desired companies are not coming forward.

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State Government was advised to send a reference to this Department for consideration.

Jammu and Kashmir:

Area expansion under maize and provision for vegetable seed should be considered.

Mizoram:

i. Oil palm should be included under PS Scheme.

ii. Oil palm cultivation in hilly areas i.e. hapunterrace where there is heavy rainfall should be supported.

iii. There is a need for establishment of oil palm refinery in the State.

Agriculture Commissioner informed that Government is considering to fix MSP for oil palm. Hapunterrace is a highly technical matter and IIOR would be involved. He further advised that one private company namely, Godrej is already working in the State which may be contacted.

Tripura:

i. For promotion of MI against the tender call only 2-3 companies quoted the rates which were found at a higher side hence, further progress in MI is hampering.

ii. Under RKVY, funds for infrastructure Development should be provided.

JS (RKVY), clarified that the main objective of revamped RKVY-RAFTAAR scheme is to strengthen pre and post harvesting infrastructure. The issue would be examined during revision of scheme.

Sikkim:

Support may be provided for nutritional management.

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National Seed Corporation

Representative pointed out that various States had not paid outstanding dues towards supply of seeds by that Corporation. He mentioned that nonpayment of outstanding dues by States is accumulating in shape of losses to NSC.

Response of this Department

Secretary, DAC&FW requested to the representatives of State Governments to expedite the settlement of outstanding dues to NSC.