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Government Initiatives
1. Soil Health Card Scheme
Launched in 2015, the scheme has been introduced to
assist State Governments to issue Soil Health Cards to all farmers in the
country.? The Soil Health
Cards provide information to farmers on nutrient status of
their soil along with recommendation on appropriate dosage of nutrients to be
applied for improving soil health and its fertility.
2. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
PMFBY is an actuarial premium based scheme under which
farmer has to pay maximum premium of 2% for Kharif, 1.5% for Rabi food &
oilseed crops and 5% for annual commercial/horticultural crops and remaining
part of the actuarial/bidded premium is shared equally by the Centre and
State Government. One of the objectives of the scheme is to facilitate
prompt claims settlement. The claims must be settled within two months of
harvest subject to timely provision of both yield data and share of premium
subsidy by the State Government.
3. Neem Coated Urea (NCU)
This scheme is initiated to regulate use of urea, enhance
availability of nitrogen to the crop and reduce cost of fertilizer application.? NCU
slows down the release of fertilizer and makes it available to the crop in an
effective manner. The entire quantity of domestically manufactured and imported
urea is now neem coated. It reduces the cost of
cultivation and improves soil health management.
4.
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY)
It was launched on 1st July, 2015 with the motto of
‘Har Khet Ko Paani’ for providing end-to end solutions in
irrigation supply chain, viz. water sources, distribution network and farm
level applications.
PMKSY not only focuses on creating sources for assured
irrigation, but also creating protective irrigation by harnessing rain water at
micro level through ‘Jal Sanchay’ and ‘Jal Sinchan’.
Micro irrigation is to be popularised to
ensure ‘Per drop-More crop’. PMKSY adopts State level planning
and projectised execution that allows States to draw up their own
irrigation development based on District Irrigation Plans and State Irrigation
Plans.
5. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana is
implemented with a view to promote organic farming in the country.?To improve
soil health and organic matter content and increase net income of the farmer so
as to realise premium prices. Under this scheme, an area of
5 lakh acre is targeted to be covered though 10,000 clusters of 50
acre each, from the year 2015-16 to 2017-18.
6. National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
It provides e-marketing platform at national level and
support creation of infrastructure to enable e-marketing.
This innovative market process is revolutionizing
agriculture markets by ensuring better price discovery. It
brings in transparency and competition to enable farmers to get improved
remuneration for their produce moving towards ‘One Nation One Market’.?
7. Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF)
A dedicated MIF created with NABARD has been approved
with an initial corpus of Rs. 5000 crore (Rs. 2000 crore for 2018-19 & Rs.
3000 crore for 2019-20) for encouraging public and private investments in Micro
irrigation. The main objective of the fund is to facilitate the States in
mobilizing the resources for expanding coverage of Micro Irrigation.
MIF would not only facilitate States in incentivizing and
mobilizing resources for achieving the target envisaged under PMKSY-PDMC but
also in bringing additional coverage through special and innovative initiatives
by State Governments.
An Advisory Committee has been set up to provide policy
direction and ensure effective planning, coordination and monitoring of the
Micro Irrigation Fund.
8. Agriculture Contingency Plan
Central Research Institute
for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), ICAR has prepared district level
Agriculture Contingency Plans in collaboration with state agricultural
universities using a standard template to tackle aberrant monsoon situations
leading to drought and floods, extreme events (heat waves, cold waves, frost,
hailstorms, cyclone) adversely affecting crops, livestock and fisheries
(including horticulture).
Total 614 district agriculture contingency plans are
placed in the ‘farmer portal’ of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare, Government of India (http://www.farmer.gov.in)
and also in the ICAR / CRIDA website (http://www.crida.in)
for downloading the full plan by stakeholders for operational use.
9. Rainfed Area Development Programme (RADP)
Rainfed Area Development Programme (RADP) was
implemented as a sub-scheme
under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY).
10. National Watershed Development Project
for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA)
The scheme of National Watershed Development Project
for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA) was launched in 1990-91 based on twin
concepts of integrated watershed management and sustainable farming
systems.
11. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
(NMSA)
NMSA is one of the eight Missions under National Action
Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). It aims at promoting Sustainable Agriculture
through climate change adaptation measures, enhancing agriculture productivity
especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, soil
health management, and synergizing resource conservation.
NMSA as a programmatic intervention caters to Mission
Deliverables that focuses mainly on conservation agriculture to make farm
sector more productive, sustainable, remunerative and climate
resilient by promoting location specific integrated/composite farming
systems.
12. Livestock insurance Scheme
It aims to provide protection mechanism to the farmers
and cattle rearers against any eventual loss of animals due to
death. The scheme also demonstrates the benefit of the insurance of
livestock to the people and popularizes it with the ultimate goal of
attaining qualitative improvement in livestock and their products.
13. National Scheme on Welfare of Fishermen
This scheme was launched to provide financial assistance
to fishers for construction of house, community hall for recreation and common
working place. It also aims to install tube-wells for drinking water and
assistance during lean period through saving cum relief component.
14. Scheme on Fisheries Training and Extension
It was launched to provide training for fishery sector so
as to assist in undertaking fisheries
extension programmes effectively.
15. Gramin Bhandaran Yojna
Objective of this Scheme:
Create scientific storage capacity with allied facilities
in rural areas.
To meet the requirements of farmers for storing
farm produce, processed farm produce and agricultural inputs.
Promotion of grading, standardization and quality control
of agricultural produce to improve their marketability.
Prevent distress sale immediately after harvest by
providing the facility of pledge financing and marketing credit by
strengthening agricultural marketing infrastructure in the country.
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