Central Government, State Government and NABARD Schemes: 1

The National Development Council (NDC) in its

53rd meeting held on 29th May, 2007 adopted a
resolution to launch a Food Security Mission
comprising rice, wheat and pulses to increase the
production of rice by 10 million tons, wheat by 8
million tons and pulses by 2 million tons by the end
of the Eleventh Plan (2011-12). Accordingly, a
Centrally Sponsored Scheme, 'National Food
Security Mission' (NFSM), was launched in October
2007. The Mission is being continued during 12th
1. National Food Five Year Plan with new targets of additional
Security Mission production of food grains of 25 million tons of food
(NFSM) grains comprising of 10 million tons rice, 8 million
tons of wheat, 4 million tons of pulses and 3 million
tons of coarse cereals by the end of 12th Five Year
Plan.
The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) during
the 12th Five Year Plan will have five components
NFSM- Rice;
NFSM-Wheat;
NFSM-Pulses,
NFSM-Coarse cereals
NFSM-Commercial Crops.

2. National Mission Soil Health Management (SHM) is one of the most

for Sustainable important interventions under National Mission for
Agriculture (NMSA) Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA). SHM will aim at
promoting location as well as crop specific sustainable
soil health management, creating and linking soil

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 fertility maps with macro-micro nutrient management,
judicious application of fertilizers and organic farming
practices. This component will be implemented by
State Govt., National Centre of Organic Farming
(NCOF), Central Fertilizer Quality Control & Training
Institute (CFQC&TI) and sanctioned by INM division. It
will have following approach for component specic
planning.

The objective of the National Mission on

3. National Mission on
Agricultural Extension and Technology (NMAET) is
Agriculture
to restructure and further strengthen agricultural
Extension
extension and thereby, enabling the delivery of
Technology
appropriate technology and improving agronomic
(NMAET)
practices to farmers.

The Mission has two submissions: (a) Mini

MissionI: Oil Seeds & Mini Mission II: Oil Palm. Its
main objective is to increase the production and
productivity of oil crops. MM I includes
conventional oil seeds crops like Rape & Mustard,
4. National Mission on Sesamum, Ground nut, etc. while MM II includes
Oil Seeds & Oil oil Palm. Oil Palm has been newly introdused from
Palm (NMOOP) the year 2014-15 on pilot basis in the districts of
Kamrup (M) & Goalpara. New varieties of Rape &
Mustard have been introduces under MM I which
have shown higher production in the state. Oil
palm plants require 4 yeats to yield and farmers
are adopting the crop well in the said district.

5. Horticulture HMNEH is a part of Mission for Integrated

Mission for North Development of Horticulture(MIDH) scheme, being
 implemented for overall development
of Horticulture in NE and Himalayan states.
East & Himalayan
The mission covers all NE States including Sikkim
States (HMNEH)
and three Himalayan states of Jammu & Kashmir,
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

To empower 30-50 thousand farmers of

northeastern region through the creation of about
6. Mission Organic
100 farmer producer companies and equip such
Value Chain
companies with full value chain under its
Development in
ownership. To convert subsistence farming to
Assam (MOVCD)
commercial organic farming with end-to-end
facilities.

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana launched on

7. Pradhan Mantri
18 February 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra
Fasal Bima Yojna
Modi is an insurance service for farmers for their
(PMFBY)
yields. 

(PMKSY) has been formulated with the vision of

extending the coverage of irrigation ‘Har Khet ko
pani’ and improving water use efficiency ‘More
crop per drop' in a focused manner with end to
8. Pradhan Mantri end solution on source creation, distribution,
Krishi Sinchayee management, field application and extension
Yojana (PMKSY) activities. The Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs chaired by Hon’ble Prime Minister has
accorded approval of Pradhan Mantri Krishi
Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) in its meeting held on
1st July, 2015.

9. Rashtriya Krishi RKVY scheme was initiated in 2007 as an umbrella

Vikas Yojana (RKVY) scheme for ensuring holistic development of
 agriculture and allied sectors by allowing states to
choose their own agriculture and allied sector
development activities as per the district/state
agriculture plan. The scheme has come a long way
since its inception and has been implemented
across two plan periods (11th and 12th). Till 2013-14,
the scheme was implemented as an Additional
Central Assistance (ACA) to State Plan Scheme with
100% central assistance. It was converted into a
Centrally Sponsored Scheme in 2014-15 also with
100% central assistance. Since 2015-16, the
funding pattern of the scheme has been altered in
the ratio of 60:40 between Centre and States
(90:10 for North Eastern States and Himalayan
States). For Union Territories the funding pattern is
100 % central grant.

The Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for Micro and

Small Enterprises (CGS) was launched by the
Government of India (GoI) to make available
10. Credit Guarantee
collateral-free credit to the micro and small
Fund Scheme
enterprise sector. Both the existing and the new
enterprises are eligible to be covered under
the scheme.

11. Equity Grant Equity Grant Scheme extends support to the equity
Scheme base of Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) by
providing matching equity grants. The EGS shall be
operated by Small Farmers' Agri Business
Consortium (SFAC). The Equity Grant Scheme
enables eligible FPCs to receive a grant equivalent
in amount to the equity contribution of their
 shareholder members in the FPC subject to a
maximum of Rs. 10.00 lakh per FPC in two tranche.
The Scheme shall address nascent and emerging
FPCs, which have paid up capital not exceeding Rs.
30 lakh as on the date of application.

The formation and development of FPOs will be

actively encouraged and supported by the Central
and State Governments and their agencies, using
financial resources from various Centrally-
sponsored and State funded schemes in the
12. Farmer Producer agriculture sector agencies. This goal will be
Organisations achieved by creating a coalition of partners by the
concerned promoter body, involving civil society
institutions, research organisations, consultants,
private sector players and any other entity which
can contribute to the development of strong and
viable producer owned FPOs.

13. Rural Infrastructure Government of India / Reserve Bank of India

Development Fund created the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
(RIDF) (RIDF) in NABARD in 1995-96. The corpus of the
fund is being extended on a year-to-year basis by
GoI since then. The first tranche of RIDF (RIDF-I)
was launched with an initial corpus of   2,000
crore which was met out of the deposits from
commercial banks, including private and public
sectors banks operating in India, to the extent of
shortfall in their agricultural lending. Since 1996-
97, the sources of deposits from commercial banks
have been broad based by including shortfall in
achievement of priority sector lending target
 and /or lending to agriculture and/or lending to
weaker sections as on last reporting Friday of
March every year.

Small Farmers' Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC)

would provide Venture Capital to qualifying
projects on the recommendations of the
14. Venture Capital bank/financial institution financing the project. This
Assistance Scheme venture capital will be repayable back to SFAC after
the repayment of term loan of lending
bank/financial institution as per original repayment
schedule or earlier.