Study Notes

Government Schemes in India

(Agriculture and Rural Development)

Government Schemes in India (Agriculture and Rural Development)

Important days related to Agriculture

• World wildlife day – 3rd March

• Water resource day – 11th March

• World meteorological day -23rd March

• World milk day – 1st June

• World environment day -5th June

• Agriculture Day – 1st July

• NABARD foundation day- 12th July (1982)

• ICAR foundation day- 16th July (1929)

• Ozone day – 16th September (Montreal Protocol, 1987)

• World fertilizer day – 13th October

• Women farmers day- 15th October

• International day of rural women – 15th October

• World fisheries day -21st November

• Agriculture education day – 3rd December (Birthday of Dr Rajendra Prasad, I union agriculture

Minister and I president of Independent India)

• Women in agriculture day– 4th December

• National energy conservation day– 14th December

• 2nd Feb- World Wetland Day

• 21st March- World Forestery Day 22nd March- World Water Day 22nd April- World Earth Day

• 24th April- National Panchayatiraj Day

• 22nd May- International Day for Biodiversity- Celebrating 25 Years of Action for Biodiversity 5th

June- World Environment Day- India is host- Beat plastic pollution

• 25th September- Antyodaya Divas (birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyay)

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• 16th October- World Food Day - Founding day of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 19th

November- World Toilet day

• 26th November- National Milk Day- Birth anniversary of Vergese Kurien (Father of White

Revolution)

• 5th December- World Soil Day23rd December- Kisan Diwas- Birth anniversary of Choudhary

Charan Singh (15th PM)

• 2003 - International Year of Freshwater

• 2015 - International Year of Rice

• 2010 - International Year of Biodiversity

• 2011 - International Year of Forests

• 2012 - International Year of Sustainable Energy for all

• 2013 - International Year of Water Cooperation/Quinoa

• 2014 - International Year of Family Farming

• 2015 - International Year of Soils

• 2016- International Year of Pulses by UN

• 2018- National Year of Millets

• 2020- International Year of Plant health

• 2021 - International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

• 2022 - International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture

• 2023- International year for Millets

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Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Schemes

INDEX

S.no Name of scheme Pg. No.

1 PM Kisan 6
2 Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna (PMKSY 9
3 Kisan Credit Card Scheme 10
4 Modified Interest Subvention Scheme (MISS) 12
5 Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) 13
6 Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY) 14
7 Soil health card scheme 16
8 Pradhan mantri matasya sampada yojana 17
9 RKVY Raftaar 19
10 eNAM 20
11 eRaKm 21
12 Krishi vigan kendras 21
13 Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Unnat Krishi Shiksha Scheme 22
14 ARYA- Attracting and Retaining Youths in Agriculture 23
15 Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav 24
16 Agricultural Technology Management Agencies (ATMAs) 24
17 National Food Security Mission (NFSM) 24
18 Zero Hunger Programme 25
19 National Programme on use of Space Technology for Agriculture (NPSTA) 26
20 Mega Food Park Scheme 26
21 Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture 27
22 Project CHAMAN 27
23 Operation Greens 28
24 Rashtriya Gokul Mission 29
25 National Mission on Bovine Productivity 29
26 e-pashuhaat portal 30
27 Embryo Transfer Technology in bovine breeding 30

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28 National Dairy Plan- Phase I 31

29 Quality Mark Award 31
30 Coir Udyami Yojana 33
31 Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund 33
32 Integrated Scheme for Development of Silk Industry 34
33 Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries 35
34 National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP) 36
35 AGRI UDAAN: AGRI UDAAN- Food and Agribusiness Accelerator 2.0 36
36 Agriculture Infrastructure Fund 37

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1. PM – KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi)

• The government announced an income support scheme, called Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman
Nidhi (PM-KISAN), for the farmer in the interim Budget 2019. The PM-KISAN scheme, aimed at
supplementing the financial needs of the small and marginal farmer (now include all farmers) ,
entails a direct cash support of Rs. 6,000 for farmers.

• The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana which was announced in the Union Interim
Budget 2019 by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister
on 24.02.2019 at B.P.Pal Auditorium, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

• Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) Scheme is an initiative by Government of

India in for all Indian farmer families. They will get up to Rs. 6,000 per year as minimum income
support. The scheme was announced by Piyush Goyal during the 2019 Interim Union budget of
India on 1 February 2019. It will come in effect from December 2018 INR 6,000 per year will be
paid to each eligible farmer in three instalments and will be deposited directly to their bank
accounts.

Documents Required

1. Citizenship certificate

2. Landholding papers

3. Aadhaar card

4. Bank account details

After the budget announcement of PM Kisan Samman nidhi yojana, there was wave of happiness
among famers of India. Under this scheme, famer will get Rs. 6000 in three installment. PM Kisan
Yojana is for all farmers for helping in financial condition for purchase of seed, fertilizers etc. Total of
Rs 6000 amount is to be distributed to farmer in 3 seasons. The government of India under the leader
ship of PM Modi announced about this scheme in Budget 2019-20. launched by Piyush Goyal (Interim
Finance Minister).

• Announcement date 1st February

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• Target beneficiaries All farmer families

• Official portal http://pmkisan.gov.in

• First Installment date 1/12/2018 to 31/3/2019

• Scheme Purpose To Provide Financial Support To Farmers

• Scheme Type Central Government Scheme

Important things about the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme or PM
Kisan Yojna for the farmers:

• Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector scheme with
100% funding from Government of India.
• The Scheme is effective from 1.12.2018.

• Under the Scheme an income support of Rs.6000/- per year is provided to all farmer families
across the country in three equal installments of Rs.2000/- each every four months.
• Definition of family for the Scheme is husband, wife and minor children.
• The entire responsibility of identification of beneficiary farmer families rests with the State / UT
Governments.
• The fund is directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. • Farmers covered
under the Exclusion Criteria of the Operational Guidelines are not eligible for the benefit of the
Scheme.
• For enrollment, the farmer is required to approach the local patwari / revenue officer / Nodal
Officer (PM-Kisan) nominated by the State Government.
• The Common Service Centres (CSCs) have also been authorized to do registration of
the farmers for the Scheme upon payment of fees.
• Farmers can also do their self-registration through the Farmers Corner in the portal.
• Farmers can also edit their names in PM-Kisan database as per their Aadhaar database / card
through the Farmers Corner in the portal.
• Farmers can also know the status of their payment through the Farmers Corner in the portal.

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Exclusion Categories

The following categories of beneficiaries of higher economic status shall not be eligible for benefit
under the scheme.
a) All Institutional Land holders.

b) Farmer families in which one or more of its members belong to following categories

i. Former and present holders of constitutional posts.

ii. Former and present Ministers/ State Ministers and former/present Members of Lok
Sabha/ Rajya Sabha/ State Legislative Assemblies/ State Legislative Councils, former and
present Mayors of Municipal Corporations, former and present Chairpersons of District
Panchayats.

iii. All serving or retired officers and employees of Central/ State Government
Ministries /Offices/Departments and its field units Central or State PSEs and Attached offices
/Autonomous Institutions under Government as well as regular employees of the Local
Bodies (Excluding Multi Tasking Staff /Class IV/Group D employees)
iv. All superannuated/retired pensioners whose monthly pension is Rs.10,000/-or more
(Excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV/Group D employees) of above category
v. All Persons who paid Income Tax in last assessment year
vi. Professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and
Architects registered with Professional bodies and carrying out profession by undertaking
practices.
Source : www.pmkisan.gov.in
www.pib.nic.in
www.nvshq.org

2. Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna (PMKSY):

Launched on 1st July,2015 in a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)

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Ministry: Jal Shakti Mantralaya, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture and
Farmers Welfare

Tagline: More Crop Per Drop

Objectives:

• To achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level

• To expand cultivable area under irrigation (Har Khet ko Pani)
• To improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage
• To enhance the adoption of precision-irrigation and other water saving technologies (More Crop
Per Drop)

Programme implementation:

Scheme has been approved with an outlay of 50000 crore for period of 5 years (2015-16 to 2019-20)
PMKSY has been formulated converging following schemes:
1. Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) of Ministry of Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
2. Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) of Department of Land Resources
3. On Farm Water Management (OFWM), a component of National Mission on Sustainable
Agriculture (NMSA)
• All states and UTs are covered under the programme
• Policy direction of programme is provided by National Steering Committee (NSC) and
programme implementation is overseen by National Executive Committee (NSC)

Programme Components:

PMKSY has following programme components

1. Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP)
• Focus on faster completion of ongoing major and medium irrigation projects.
2. PMKSY (Har Khet ko Pani)
• Creation of new water sources through minor irrigation projects
• Construction of rain water harvesting structures (Jal Sanhchay)
• Ground water development in areas where it is abundant
• Improvement of water distribution systems

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• Creating and rejuvenating traditional water storage systems,eg:

i. Jal mandir – Gujurat
ii. Khatri, Kuhl – HP
iii. Zabo – Nagaland
iv. Eri, Ooranis –TN
v. Dongs – Assam
vi. Katas, Bandhas – Odisha and MP

3. PMKSY (More Crop Per Drop)

• Promote precision water application devices: drips, sprinklers, pivots, rain-guns in the farm (Jal
Sinchan)
• Construction of micro-irrigation structures
• Extension activities for promotion of scientific moisture conservation and agronomic measures
to maximize use of available water and minimise irrigation requirement (Jal Sanrakshan).

4. PMKSY (Watershed development)

• Effective management of runoff water and improved soil and moisture conservation activities
on watershed basis
3. Kisan Credit Card Scheme:
• Launched: 1998 by NABARD and RBI on recommendations of R V gupta committee

• Objective: To enable farmers to have quick and timely access to affordable credit.

Characteristics:

• The scheme was further revisited in 2012 by a working Group under the Chairmanship of Shri T.
M. Bhasin, CMD, Indian Bank with a view to simplify the scheme and facilitate issue of Electronic
Kisan Credit Cards.
• The card is offered by cooperative banks, regional rural banks, and public sector banks.

• It provides both short term (consumption needs) and long term loans, loans to meet the working
capital requirement, contingency needs etc. at reasonable interest rate.

• Farmers can avail short term loans at a simple interest rate of 4% on condition of timely payment.
Interest will be waived upto 3% if the farmer repays the loan promptly, but in case of late

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payment,bank will charge interest rate of 7% on the loan amount.

• The limit of the KCC card can be increased for a loan upto Rs 3 lakhs if KCC holder repays due
amount on time.

• No collateral is needed for a loan upto an amount of Rs 1.60 lakhs.

• Crop of the farmers who have taken credit via KCC will also be insured via crop insurance
scheme.

National Policy for Farmers 2007:

It was brought in on the recommendation of National commission of Farmers. The Commission was set up in
2004 under the Chairmanship of Professor M S Swaminathan.

It seeks to provide a holistic approach for the improvement of agriculture by focusing on wellbeing of farmers
in addition to production and productivity. Document mentions numerous areas (not important for exam).

• In the Budget 2018-19, Indian Government has announced the facility of extension of Kisan
Credit Card scheme (KCC) to Animal Husbandry and Fisheries farmers.
• In the budget, 2019-20, it is proposed to provide the benefit of 2 % interest subvention to the
farmers pursuing the activities of animal husbandry and fisheries, who avail loan through Kisan
Credit Card.
• In the Budget 2020-21, it was announced that all eligible beneficiaries of PM-Kisan will be
covered under KCC scheme
• In the month of June-July 2020, govt also launched the drive to provide KCC to dairy farmers
later it was extended.

4. Modified Interest Subvention Scheme (MISS):

• Launched: in 2006-07, Under Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare since 2016-17,
earlier- under Ministry of Finance
• Objective: To make available at ground level, agricultural credit for Short Term crop loans at
an affordable rate to give a boost to agricultural productivity and production in the country.

Characteristics:

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• The farmers can avail concessional crop loans of upto Rs.3 lakh at 7 % rate of interest.

• An additional subvention of 3 % for prompt repayment within a period of one year.

• In case the farmers do not repay the short term loan in time, they would be eligible for interest
subvention of 2% as against 5% available on timely repayment

• Post-harvest loans for storage in accredited warehouses against Negotiable Warehouse

Receipts (NWRs) are available for up to 6 months for KCC holding small & marginal farmers.

• Farmers who would have to borrow at 9% for post-harvest storage of their produce, government
has approved subvention of 2% on prompt repayment for loans upto 6 months. Subvention for
prompt repayment will not be available to farmers for loans extended against NWRs.

• To provide relief to the farmers by natural calamities, the interest subvention of 2% is provided
to banks for the first year, which is extended to a period of first three years in case of severe
calamities.
• A notification by RBI in June this year stated that as advised by GoI, from 2018-19 the ISS is
being put on DBT mode on ‘In kind/services’ basis and not on ‘In cash’ basis and all loans
processed in 2018-19 are required to be brought on ISS portal/DBT platform, once it is launched.
• The scheme is implemented through public sector banks and private sector banks
{reimbursement through Reserve Bank of India (RBI)}, Regional Rural Banks and Cooperatives
{reimbursement through National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)}.
• A new scheme “Interest subvention on Working Capital Loans for Dairy Sector” is implemented
for year 2020-21 for supporting Dairy Cooperatives and Farmer Producer Organizations
engaged in dairy farming with provision of interest subvention of 2% per annum and additional
incentive of 2% interest subvention in case of prompt repayment.

5. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY):

• Launched on 18th February 2016 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
(MoA&FW)
• It replaced earlier two schemes related to insurance services to farmers :
1. National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS)
2. Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS)

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Objectives:

• Providing financial support to farmers suffering crop damage/loss due to unforeseen events.
• Stabilising the income of farmers to ensure their continuance in farming.
• Encouraging farmers to adopt innovative and modern agricultural practices.
• Ensuring flow of credit to the agriculture sector.

Coverage of Crops:

All food grains, oilseed crops, annual commercial/horticultural crops.

Coverage of farmers:

• Compulsory coverage: scheme is compulsory for loanee farmers who possess a Crop Loan
Account/KCC account to whom credit limit is either sanctioned or renewed for the crop during
the crop season. But from the Kharif 2020 it became voluntary for loanee farmer also, he has to
give mandate for not to deduct premium for insurance.
• Voluntary coverage: scheme is voluntary for farmers who do not possess a Crop Loan
Account/KCC account or for farmers who possess a Crop Loan Account/KCC account but credit
limit is not renewed.

Coverage of farmers:

Crop loss due to following risks is covered:

1. Prevented sowing/planting/germination risk

2. Standing crop (sowing to harvesting)
3. Post-harvest losses (maximum up to two weeks from harvesting)
4. Localized calamities
5. Add-on coverage for crop loss due to attack by wild animals

Exclusions: losses due to war and nuclear risks, intentional damage and other preventable risks

Loaning period:

• Kharif: April to July

• Rabi: October to December

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Highlights:

• Premium to be paid by farmers:

• 2% - for all Kharif crops
• 1.5 % -for all rabi crops
• 5 % - annual commercial/horticultural crops
• Balance premium paid by government, no provision of capping and farmers get claim against
full sum insured
• Use of technology is encouraged- eg: smart phones are used to capture and upload crop cutting
data.

Recent: In 2020, several states exited the scheme citing the scheme to be a burden on state’s finances
due to high premium charges – Gujarat, Punjab, Andra Pradesh, Telanganaand Jharkhand have
already exited the scheme.

6. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY):

• Launched in 2015 as an extended component of Soil Health Management (SHM) under

National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)

Objectives:

• To promote commercial organic production through certified organic farming’’

• To disseminate latest technologies in organic farming
• To raise farmers’ income and create potential market for traders
• To motivate farmers for natural resource mobilization for input production

Funding pattern:

• Funding in the ratio of 60:40 (Centre:State)

• North Eastern and Himalayan states, 90:10 (Centre:State)
• UTs, 100% by centre

Approach: with conversion period of 36 months (3 years), PKVY promotes organic farming through a
cluster approach to adopt PGS (Participatory Guarantee System) Certification which facilitates farmers
to certify their organic produce, label and market their products domestically.

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What is PGS (Participatory Guarantee System): to promote organic farming and domestic
organic market, a free/no cost domestic organic certification system called Participatory Guarantee
System- India (PGS-India) is implemented by Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers
Welfare (DAC&FW), GOI through National Centre of Organic Farming (NCOF), Ghaziabad and its
seven Zonal Councils.

Logo of PGS-India:

• PGS-INDIA GREEN – for marketing of products produced from fields ‘Under Conversion’
• PGS-INDIA ORGANIC - for marketing of products produced from fields ‘Completely
Converted Into Organic’

Major features:

• Cluster chosen shall be of 20 ha or 50 acres in extent

• Total financial assistance available for a cluster of 20 ha or 50 acres is Rs 10 lakhs maximum
for mobilisation to organic agriculture and Rs 4.95 lakhs for PGS certification
• Of the total number of farmers in a cluster, a minimum of 65% should belong to marginal and
small farmer category
• At least 30% budget allocation should be for women farmers

Key components:

• Model Organic Cluster Demonstration

• Model Organic Farm

1. Model Organic Cluster Demonstration

1. Demonstrations aim at promoting organic farming by creating awareness on latest technologies
related to it
2. Implementing agencies:
• Zonal Councils of National Centre for Organic Farming (NCOF)
• PGS registered Regional Councils (RCs)
• Public Sector Organisations of DAC&FW
3. Conducted in farmer’s field in clusters of 20 ha or 50 acres
4. Major activities:

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a) Adoption of PGS certification

• Mobilisation of farmers to form clusters for certification
• PGS certification and Quality control
b) Manure Management and Biological Nitrogen Harvesting
• Conversion of land into organic
• Integrated Manure Management
• Custom Hiring Centres
• Packing, Labelling and Branding of Produce.
2. Model Organic Farm
• Aims at demonstrating conversion of conventional land into organic farming practices in one
hectare parcels
• Exposure visits are conducted for farmers to model organic farms developed by central and
state agricultural organisations.

7. Soil Health Card Scheme:

• launched on 19th February 2015

• Ministry: Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare

Objectives:

• To enable farmers to realise higher crop yields at lower cost by promoting soil tests and
balanced use of fertilizers
• To aware farmers about the appropriate amount of nutrients for the concerned crop depending
on the quality of soil

What is Soil Health Card: SHC is a printed report that a farmer gets for his land holding which contains
status of his soil with respect to 12 parameters based on which it indicates fertilizer recommendations
and soil amendment for the farm:

Parameters:

• N, P, K –primary macro-nutrients
• S – secondary macro-nutrient

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• Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, B – micro-nutrients

• pH, EC, OC – physical parameters

Other features of SHC scheme:

• Indicate soil health status and is made available once in a cycle of two years
• sampling are drawn in a grid of 2.5 ha in irrigated area and 10 ha in rainfed area with the help
of GPS tools
• State government undertakes work of sampling and soil testing laboratories carry out analysis
work
• Samples are taken two times in a year- after harvesting of Rabi and Kharif crops respectively
• A sum of Rs 190 per sample is provided to state governments.

8. Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampda Yojana (PMMSY)

• Implemented in May 2020 under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
for a period of 5 years from FY 2020-21 to FY 2024-2025 in all states/UTs

Objectives:

• To bring blue revolution through sustainable development of fisheries sector

• To enhance fish productivity and quality by productive utilisation of land/water and by
strengthening value-chain (post-harvest management)
• To generate employment opportunities and double fishers/fish farmers’ income for their social,
physical and economic security
• (current contribution is 1.24% of National GVA and 7.28% of Agriculture GVA)

Total investment in scheme: Rs 20050 crores, divided as:

• Central share = Rs 9487 crore

• State share = Rs 4880 crore
• Beneficiaries contribution = Rs 5673 crore

Implemetation of scheme: it is an umbrella scheme with following two components:

1. Central Sector Scheme (CS) – Rs 1720 crores share of investment

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2. Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) - Rs 18330 crores share of investment.

1. Central Sector Scheme (CS)

• The entire project cost to be borne by Central government (100% central funding)
• For direct beneficiary oriented (individual/group activities) projects undertaken by entities of
central govt (for eg. NFDB – National Fisheries Development Board), the central assistance will
be:
a) Up to 40% of project cost – for general category
b) Up to 60% of project cost – for SC/ST/women

2. Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS)

• It includes 3 activities:
a) enhancement of production and productivity
b) infrastructure and post-harvest management
c) fisheries management and regulatory framework

• Segregated into 2 sub-components:

a) Non-beneficiary oriented
b) Beneficiary oriented

a) Non-beneficiary oriented sub-component

Entire project cost to be shared between centre (C) and state (S) as below:
• North Eastern and Himalayan states: 90% C and 10% S
• Other states: 60% C and 40% S
• Union Territories: 100% C
b) Beneficiary oriented sub-component
Includes direct beneficiary oriented (individual/group activities) projects to be implemented by states
and UTs.
The govt assistance (central and state/UTs govt.) will be limited to:
• Up to 40% of project cost – for general category
• Up to 60% of project cost – for SC/ST/women

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And will be shared between centre and state as under non-beneficiary sub- component

Anticipated outcomes:

• Fish production to increase from 13.75 million metric tons (2018-19) to 22 million metric tons
(2024-25)
• Sustained average annual growth rate of 9% in fish production
• Increase in contribution to Agriculture GVA from 7.28% to 9%
• Double export earnings from Rs 46589 crores to Rs 100000 crores
• Aquacultre productivity to increase from 3 tons/ha to 5 tons/ha
• Reduction in post-harvest losses from 20-25% o 10%
• Generation of about 15 lakh employment opportunities
• Increase in domestic fish consumption from 5 kg to 12 kg per capital.

9. RKVY-RAFTAAR:

• Launched: RKVY was launched in 2007-08 to achieve 4% growth in agriculture sector.

Relaunched in 2017 under the Ministry of Agri and Farmers welfare
• Objective: To make farming a remunerative activity by strengthening farmer’s effort, risk
mitigation and promoting agribusiness entrepreneurship

Characteristics:
• It encouraged decentralized planning through the initiation of State Agriculture Plan (SAP) and
District Agriculture Plans (DAP) based on local climate condition and other factors. It
encouraged decentralized planning and granted autonomy to states in project implementatioin.
• Cabinet has approved Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) as Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana-
Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied sector Rejuvenation (RKVY-RAFTAAR) for
three years i.e. 2017-18 to 2019-20.
• Some major sub-schemes launched under RKVY-RAFTAAR are Accelerated Fodder
Development Programme (AFDP),Saffron Mission ,Crop Diversification Programme (CDP) etc.
• To achieve the scheme objective, 50% of the fund will be spent on infrastructure, 30% in value
addition production projects and rest 20% is flexi funds.
• Financial allocation for the entire period- 15,722 crore. Funds would be provides 60:40 ratio
(centre: states).

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10. National Agriculture Market (eNAM)

• Launched on 14th April 2016 by Ministry of Agriculture, GOI
• It is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India
• NDA govt rolled out this project nationally based on the success of a similar project initiated by
Congress govt in Karnataka

Objective:

• to improve the supply chain of agricultural commodities and reducing wastages

• to facilitate farmers, traders and buyers with online trading of commodities with better price
discovery and smooth marketing

Features:

• National e-market platform for transparent sale transactions and price discovery of products
• Liberal licensing of traders/buyers and commission agents by state authorities without any pre-
condition of physical presence or possession of shop in the market
• One license for a trader valid across all markets in the state
• Harmonisation of quality standards, quality testing and common tradable parameters for
agricultural products in every market
• Single point levy of market fees, i.e., on the first wholesale purchase from the farmer
• Provision of soil testing laboratories in/or near the selected mandis
• eNAM mobile app is available in Android for farmers and traders to bid and complete a
transaction on the app and is available in 8 languages
• in February 2018, features like MIS dashboard, BHIM and other mobile payments were added
to the app

Market: eNAM is linked with 1000 markets (APMCs) in 18 states and 3 UTs

Implementing agency: Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is the lead promoter of
NAM which is a registered society of DAC&FW.

Advantages for various stakeholders:

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a) Farmers: can sell products without the interference of any brokers or middlemen,thus making
good returns out of their investment
b) Traders: can do secondary trading from one APMC to other one anywhere in India
c) Buyers, processors and exporters: can source commodities from any mandi in India
without physical presence thereby reducing the inter-mediation cost
d) Consumers: increase in competition among traders provide stable prices and better
availability of products to consumers.
e) Mandis: reduction in book keeping and reporting system, thus better monitoring and regulation
of traders and commission agents

11. e-RaKAM:

• Launched: in 2017 under a joint initiative by state-run-auctioneer MSTC and Central

Warehousing Corporation arm CRWC (Central Railside Warehouse Company.

• Objective: It provides a digital platform to farmers to sell their produce

Characteristics:

• e-Rastriya Kisan Agri Mandi

• It is a first-of-its-kind initiative that leverages technology to connect farmers of the smallest

villages to the biggest markets of the world through internet and e-RaKAM centres.

12. Krishi Vigyan Kendras:

• Launched: in 1974 by ICAR (Indian Council for Agricultural Research), based on a report
submitted by Dr. Mohan Singh Mehta committee
• Objective: To provide various types of farm support to farmers like technology dissemination,
training of farmers, giving advices etc.

Characteristics:

• Krsihi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) are agricultural extension centres

• All KVKs fall under the jurisdiction of one of the 11 Agriculture Technology Aplication Research
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Institutes (ATARI) throughout India

• The first KVK was established in Pondichery, now called as Puducherry,under the administrative
controlof Tamilnadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore

• As of April 2022, around 731 KVKs are in the country (icar.org).

• Since oct 2018, there is an online dashboard which provides updates on the activity of various
KVKs

• A KVK must own about 20 hectares of land for the purpose of testing new agricultural technology.

• The major responsibilities of KVK are – on-farm testing, front-line demonstrations, capacity
building, mulyi-sector support, advisory services
• The special programmes which shall be initiated through the KVK Scheme are:

1. A network Project on New Extension Methodologies and Approaches; Nutri-sensitive

Agricultural Resources and Innovations (NARI);
2. Programs tilted Knowledge Systems and Homestead Agriculture Management in Tribal
Areas (KSHAMTA),
3. Value Addition and Technology Incubation Centres in Agriculture (VATICA),

4. Farm Innovation Resource Management (FIRM) and

5. Establishment of Agricultural Technology Information Centre.

13. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Unnat Krishi Shiksha Scheme:

• Launched: in 2016 under Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

• Objective: To promote agricultural education in terms of cow-based economy, natural farming
and organic farming

Characteristics:
• 100 centres being opened with a fund of Rs.5.35 crore
• The scheme was introduced for providing better facilities to the students who want to make
their carrer in the agricultural field
• Under this “Student Ready” scheme has been launched by ICAR to increase scholarships to
the students from Rs 1000 to Rs3000.

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14. ARYA- Attracting and Retaining Youths in Agriculture

• Launched: on 25th July 2015 by ICAR under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare,
based on the report submitted by a committee headed by K Narayana Gowda (Karnataka)

• Objective: To provide complete knowledge and skill on processing, value addition and
marketing of coconut and banana products through capacity building programmes involving
research and development organizations.

Characteristics:

• Started in selected districts through KVKs – for entrepreneurial development of Youth in Rural
Areas to take up various Agriculture, allied and service sector enterprises.
• Under this scheme, Agriculture Technology Management Training (ATMA) provides training to
rural youth
• Special efforts are being taken up to attract the rural youth under the age of 35 years in
agriculture so that the increase in the migration of rural youth towards cities is controlled.
• Scheme is presently being implemented in 100 districts in the country with a target of training
• 10,000 rural youth in three years
• The capacity development of farmers and vocational training to youth (about 14 lakhs annually)
will improve fruitful engagement in farming.
• INNOVATIVE YOUTH AWARDs are also awarded to farm youth from every taluka to provide
social recognition and to inspire other educated youth to tae farming.

15. Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav

• Launched: 25th july 2015 in Patna by the PM, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
welfare
• Objective: Scientists of ICAR and Agricultural Universities will identify villages in the vicinity
of the Institutions for providing advisories and consultations to farmers.

Characteristics:

• Part of PM’s ‘Lab to Land’ dream

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• Groups of four multidisciplinary scientists each will be constituted at these institutes and
universities. Each group will “adopt” five villages within a radius of maximum 100 km.

16. Agricultural Technology Management Agencies (ATMAs)

• Launched: on 29th March 2005 in Krishna, Andhra Pradesh under ICAR, the Ministry of Agri
and Farmers welfare
• Objective: It is at district level scheme- responsible for all technology dissemination at district
level.

Characteristics:

• Funding for the scheme is 90% by central government and 10 % by state government
• 237 ATMA are present at district level to carry out extension work
• At present, the scheme is under implementation in 614 districts in 28 states and 3 UTs
• Now in PAN India, to take information related to farmers- Kisan Call Centres (KCCs), Agri-
Clinics and Agri- Business Centres (ACABC) of entrepreneurs /DD Kisan TV.

17. National Food Security Mission (NFSM):

• Launched: in 2007 under Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare

• Objective: To stop stagnating food grain production and increasing consumption need.

Characteristics:

• Originally aimed only for 11th Five Year Plan (2007-13) but still continuing.
• It has 5 major components: NFSM- Rice, NFSM- Wheat, NFSM- Pulses, NFSM- Coarse cereals,
NFSM- Commercial crops
• National Food Security Mission aims to enhance the production of Rice, Wheat, Pulses, coarse
cereals and commercial crops to make the country self-sufficient in food grains. Pulses take
60% of the allocation. From 2019-20, the provision also includes requirement of oilseeds and
oilpalm.

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18. Zero Hunger Programme

• Launched: in 2017 on World Food Day (16th October)

• Objective: To eliminate hunger through various interventions.

Characteristics:

• It has adopted an integrated approach to deal with issues in agriculture, nutrition and health.

• There will be intensive training programme in order to identify the nutritional maladies in each
district and the appropriate agricultural/horticultural and animal husbandry remedies.
• The concerned state governments will also be involved in the programme which consists of
organisations of farming system for nutrition, setting up genetic gardens for biofortified
plants/crops and initiation of a 'Zero Hunger' training.
• Genetic garden means collection of germplasm of plants. Bio-fortified crops means using various
techniques, the nutritional quality of crops are enhanced.
• The Programme will be initiated by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in association
with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).
• It has been launched in three districts: Koraput (Odisha), Gorakhpur (UP) and Thane
(Maharashtra).

• The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Goal No. 2 says Zero Hunger by 2030.
19. National Programme on use of Space Technology for Agriculture (NPSTA):

• Launched: in December 2017 under the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers
Welfare
• Objective: Integrated use of Space and Geospatial Tools for Mapping, Monitoring and
Management of Agriculture.

Characteristics:

• 4 main sub-programmes for crop assessment and monitoring, agricultural resource

management, disaster mitigation, satellite communication and navigation application

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• Following running programmes will be subsumed: FASAL (for crop forecasting), NADAMS (for

drought assessment), CHAMAN (for horticultural assessment and development), KISAN (for

crop insurance) and Crop Intensification planning

20. Mega Food Park Scheme

• Launched: in 2008 under the Ministry of food Processing and Industries

• Objective: Providing a mechanism to link agricultural production to the market by bringing

together farmers, processors and retailers so as to ensure maximizing value addition, minimizing
wastage, increasing farmers income and creating employment opportunities particularly in rural
sector.

Characteristics:

• Provides modern infrastructure facilities for food processing through cluster based approach.

• A central sector scheme with 50: 50 funding pattern (75:25) for special states.

• Government of India provides financial assistance up to Rs. 50.00 Crore per Mega Food Park
project.

• It now comes under the flagship scheme of Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojna.

Other measures to boost food processing sector:

• 100% FDI in trading including e-commerce for processed food manufactured in India.

• Special Fund of Rs 2,000 crore in NABARD to provide affordable credit at cheaper interest rate.

• Food and agro–based processing units and cold chain infrastructure have been brought under
the ambit of Priority Sector Lending (PSL

21. Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture:

• Launched: in 2005 under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare
• Objective: For the holistic growth of the horticulture sector covering fruits, vegetables, root &

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tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, cocoa and
bamboo.

Characteristics:
• A Centrally Sponsored Scheme

• For the holistic growth of horticulture sector using strategies specific to areas

• Various sub-schemes: National Horticulture Mission, National Bamboo Mission, Horticulture

Mission for North-East and Himalayan States.

• Under MIDH, Government of India (GOI) contributes 60%, of total outlay for developmental
programmes in all the states except states in North East and Himalayas, 40% share is
contributed by State Governments. In the case of North Eastern States and Himalayan States,
GOI contributes 90%.
• In case of National Horticulture Board (NHB), Coconut Development Board (CDB), Central
Institute for Horticulture (CIH), Nagaland and the National Level Agencies (NLA), GOI
contributes 100%.

22. Project CHAMAN:

• Launched: in 2014 under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare

• Objective: To identify areas (especially jhum/waste land) suitable for various horticulture
crops. It will also reduce post-harvest losses by creating infrastructure like cold storages.

Characteristics:

• CHAMAN (Coordinated Horticulture Assessment and Management) uses remote sensing and
satellite data to identify areas (especially jhum/waste land) suitable for various horticulture
crops. It will also reduce post- harvest losses by creating infrastructure like cold storages.
• It is implemented by Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) located in New
Delhi.

• India is the Second largest producer of Vegetables and Fruits in the world and is First in the
production of Banana, Mango, Lime and Lemon, Papaya and Okra.

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23. Operation Greens: (TOP)

• Launched: in 2018 under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries(MoFPI)

• Objective: To increase the production and supply of tomato, potato and onion (TOP).

Characteristics:

• In line with ‘Operation Flood’ to increase the production and supply of tomato, potato and onion
(TOP). (500 crore allocated)
• Earlier there was a Price Stabilization Fund which was created in 2015 which could be used to
intervene to check the rise in price of onion and potato. Later it was extended to pulses and
other commodities.
Strategies
• Short term Price Stabilisation Measures
Market Intelligence and Early Warning System

• Long Term Integrated value chain development projects

1. Formation and Capacity Building of FPO
2. Quality Production
3. Post-harvest processing facilities - At Farm Level
4. Post-harvest processing facilities - At Main Processing Sites
5. Agri-Logistics
6. Marketing/Consumption Point

23. Operation Greens: (TOP to TOTAL)

• Scheme approved on 10.06.2020, Scheme guidelines notified on 11.06.2020 from TOP to
all fruits and vegetables (TOTAL)

• Objective:- The objective of intervention is to protect the growers of fruits and vegetables
from making distress sale due to lockdown and reduce the post -
harvest losses.
• Eligible Crops:- Fruits- Mango, Banana, Guava, Kiwi, Lichi, Papaya, Citrus, Pineapple,
Pomegranate, Jackfruit; Vegetables: - French beans, Bitter Gourd, Brinjal, Capsicum,
Carrot, Cauliflower, Chillies (Green), Okra, Onion, Potato and Tomato. Any other
fruit/vegetable can be added in future on the basis of recommendation by Ministry of
Agriculture or State Government (List of eligible crops, selected surplus production
clusters and trigger price for intervention under the scheme

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• Duration of Scheme:- for the period of six months from the date of notification i.e.,
11/06/2020.
• Pattern of Assistance:- Ministry will provide subsidy @ 50 % of the cost of the following
two components, subject to the cost norms:
Transportation of eligible crops from surplus production cluster to consumption
centre; and/or
Hiring of appropriate storage facilities for eligible crops (for maximum period of 3
months)
24. Rashtriya Gokul Mission:
• Launched: in 2014 under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
• Objective: To conserve and develop indigenous breeds, enhance milk productivity,
distribution of high genetic merit bulls.
Characteristics:

• A focussed project under National Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Development

• It will establish Integrated Indigenous Cattle Centres or Gokul Grams, beeder’s societies or
Gopalan Sangh will be formed
• Awards to Farmers (“Gopal Ratna” ) and Breeders’ Societies (“Kamadhenu”) will be given.

• India with 199 million cattle has 14.5% of the world cattle population. Of this, 83% i.e.
166 million are indigenous.

• India has the largest bovine population in the world.

• As per the announcement made by the FM during the presentation of the Union Budget
2019-20, the GoI is planning in setting up of Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog to upscale
sustainable genetic up-gradation of cow resources and to enhance production and
productivity of cows.

25. National Mission on Bovine Productivity:

• Launched: in November 2016 under the Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying &
Fisheries (DADF), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

• Objective: To enhance milk production and productivity

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• Characteristics:

It has following components:

• Pashu Sanjivni - identification of animals in milk using UID, issuing health cards to all animals
in milk and uploading data on INAPH data base INAPH- Information Network on Animal Health
and Productivity
• Advanced Reproductive Technique - 10 A graded semen stations with semen production
facility and 50 Embryo Transfer Technology Labs with IVF (In-vitro Fertilization) facilities
• E-pashuhaat portal - linking farmers and breeder of indigenous breeds

• A National Bovine Genomic Centre for Indigenous Breeds(NBGC-IB) - for enhancing

milk production and productivity among indigenous breeds

• Related CA- Two National Kamdhenu Breeding Centres are being established one in the State
of Andhra Pradesh for southern region and other in Madhya Pradesh for northern region.

26. e-pashuhaat portal:

• Launched: in 2016 on National Milk Day (26th November) under the Department of Animal
Husbandry Dairying & Fisheries (DADF), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

• Objective: To connect breeders and farmers for purchase/sale of breeding stock, germplasm
including semen, embryos or live animals, under the scheme National Mission on Bovine
Productivity

Characteristics:
• An e-trading portal

27. Embryo Transfer Technology in bovine breeding:

• Launched: in 2017 under the Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying & Fisheries (DADF),
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.

• Objective: Conservation and development of indigenous breeds under Rashtriya Gokul

Mission.

Characteristics:

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• Department of Animal husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in co-operation with 12 States has
undertaken a Mass Embryo Transfer programme in Indigenous Breeds under the scheme,
National Mission on Bovine Productivity.
• Through the use of ETT,
1. a farmer can get a 5-6 fold increase in number of off springs,
2. the calves so born will be of high genetic merit and
3. the offspring born will be free from diseases.

28. National Dairy Plan- Phase I

• Launched: in 2011 under the Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying & Fisheries (DADF),
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.

• Objective: To help rural milk producers achieve greater access to the organized milk
processing sector.

Characteristics:

• A Central Sector Scheme being implemented by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

• For duration- 2011-12 to 2018-19

• Its a world Bank assisted project being implemented in 18 major dairy States with aim of
enhancing milk production and productivity in order to meet demand of milk in the country through
strengthening of semen stations; bull production programme.

29. Quality Mark Award:

• Launched: in 2016, given by- National Diary Development Board (NDDB)

• Objective: To bring about process improvement in the entire value chain from producer to the
consumer to ensure availability of safe and quality of milk and products both for the domestic
and foreign market.

Characteristics:

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• To- dairy cooperatives

• The Quality Mark” Award Scheme for dairy Cooperatives in the country has been initiated to
instill confidence in the consumers for the quality of milk being marketed by them by ensuring
availability of safe and good quality milk and milk products.
• The quality mark scheme was rolled out on 6th January-2016 after deliberating on the process
and award mechanism for over a year.
• The initiative does not propose any new/ additional system for Food Safety and Quality
Management but lays down minimum standards against each link of the processes required for
ensuring quality and safety.

• The assessment is a two-step process involving pre-assessment and a final assessment.

• The pre-assessment largely covers the village level procurement and processing infrastructure
availability, training manpower and the retail sales.
• Only those dairy units that score over 70% in the preliminary assessment are considered for final
assessment which is done by a team of three experts of which one is an external expert.
• The final assessment is made for the evaluation of 45 critical and 97 major parameters that
influence the quality of the processed milk and milk products.
• The award of Quality Mark shall be valid for three years subject to maintenance of quality, food
safety standards and compliance with terms and conditions of the agreement.

VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS HEADQUARTERS

NATIONAL JUTE BOARD HYDERABAD

CENTRAL SILK BOARD BENGALURU

COFFEE BOARD OF INDIA BENGALURU

TEA BOARD OF INDIA KOLKATA

COIR BOARD OF INDIA KOCHI

SPICE BOARD OF INDIA KOCHI

RUBBER BOARD KOTTAYAM (KERALA)

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COCONUT DEVELOPMENT BOARD BENGALURU

NATIONAL HORTICULTURE BOARD GURUGRAM (HARYANA)

30. Coir Udyami Yojana:

• Launched: Under the Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises

• Objective:

• To incorporate modern technology in Coir Industry for the production and processing of coir
and coir products
• Update the production and processing technology to improve the productivity and product
diversification.

• To create employment opportunities in the rural areas of the States /Union Territories
producing coconut.

Characteristics:

• A credit linked subsidy scheme

• Under the scheme, 40% of the project cost comes from Government of India subsidy, 55% as
loan from Bank and 5% beneficiary contribution.
• Covers any type of coir project with project cost upto Rs.10 lakhs plus working capital
• For skill upgradation there are two schemes: Coir Vikas Yojna and Mahila Coir Yojna. The later
is intended to provide self-employment to women in rural area.

31. Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund:

• Launched: in 2017. The project will be implemented by National Dairy Development Board
(NDDB) and National Dairy Development Cooperation (NCDC) directly through the End
Borrowers such as Milk Unions, State Dairy Federations, Multi-state Milk Cooperatives, Milk

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Producer Companies and NDDB subsidiaries meeting the eligibility criteria under the project.
An Implementation and Monitoring Cell (IMC) located at NDDB, Anand, will manage the
implementation and monitoring of day-to-day project activities.

• Objective: The project will focus on building an efficient milk procurement system by setting
up of chilling infrastructure & installation of electronic milk adulteration testing equipment,
creation/modernization/expansion of processing infrastructure and manufacturing faculties for Value
Added Products for the Milk Unions/ Milk Producer Companies.

Characteristics:

• Outlay of Rs 10,881 crore during the period from 2017-18 to 2028-29.

• Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund will be set up as a corpus of Rs 8004 crore
with NABARD.
• It will be used to set up chilling infrastructure, milk adulteration testing equipment etc to
modernize processing infrastructure.
• It will provide loans at 6.5% for 10 years with initial 2 years of moratorium (no need to pay
interest during moratorium period)
• implemented by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and National Dairy Development
Cooperation (NCDC)

32. Integrated Scheme for Development of Silk Industry

• Launched: in 2018 under the Ministry of Textiles. The scheme will be implemented by the
Ministry through Central Silk Board (CSB).

• Objective:

• To improve the productivity and quality of silk through R&D intervention.

• To promote improved crossbreed silk and the import substitute Bivoltine silk so that Bivotine
silk production in India enhances to such a level that raw silk imports become nil by 2022
thereby making India self-sufficient in silk.
The Scheme has four components –

• Research & Development (R&D), Training, Transfer of Technology and IT Initiatives

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• Seed Organizations and farmers extension centres

• Coordination and Market Development for seed, yarn and silk products and Quality Certification
System (QCS) by creating amongst others a chain of Silk Testing facilities, Farm based & post-
cocoon Technology Up-gradation, and Export Brand Promotion.

33. Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries

• Launched: in 2015 under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

Characteristics:

• An umbrella scheme to increase fish production and productivity

• Under blue revolution, India has a target to produce 15 MT fish by 2020-21.

• There is a National Policy on Marine Fishing 2017

• Dr Meena Kumari committee on deep sea fishing

Mission fingerling:

• Fingerling basically means very young fish about the size of a finger or juvenile fish

• With an expenditure of 520 crore to achieve blue revolution.

• It will strengthen the fish fingerling production and fish seed infrastructure by establishing fishing
rearing pond and hatcheries.

The scheme has the following components:

• National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) and its activities.

• Development of Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture.

• Development of Marine Fisheries, Infrastructure and Post-Harvest Operations.

• Strengthening of Database & Geographical Information System of the Fisheries Sector.

• Institutional Arrangement for Fisheries Sector.

• Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) and other need-based Interventions.

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• National Scheme on Welfare of Fishermen

34. National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP):

• Launched: in 2014-15 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

• Objective: To enhance the production of traditional oilseed and tree-borne oilseed. In addition,
significant area is sought to be brought under oil palm.

Characteristics:

• Three sub-missions for oil seed, oil palm and Tree-borne Oilseed (TBO)

• To enhance the production of oil seed.

• Funding- 75:25

35. AGRI UDAAN: AGRI UDAAN- Food and Agribusiness Accelerator 2.0

• Launched: in 2015 ; ICAR-NAARM Technology Business Incubator (TBI), a-IDEA and Indian
Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIM-A) incubator Center for Innovation, Incubation and
Entrepreneurship (CIIE) announces “AGRI UDAAN”- Food and Agribusiness Accelerator 2.0,
under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare

• Objective:

• To promote entrepreneurship in agriculture.

• To help selected start-ups to scale up their operation by providing necessary training.
• To seek and to promote start-up culture in agriculture to attract youths.

Characteristics:

• Accelerators are 4-8 month program aiming at scaling up innovative startups with a working

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prototype and initial market traction.

• This is done through education, mentorship, and financing. Startups enter accelerators for a
fixed-period of time, and as part of a cohort.
• The cohort is shortlisted by evaluation panel comprising of industry veterans, business experts,
R&D scientists.
• Four distinct factors that make accelerators unique are fixed term, cohort based, mentorship
driven and they culminate into demo day.

“Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.” – Narendra Mod

36. Agriculture Infrastructure Fund

Features

• Centre sector scheme, by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Size of the financing
facility – Rs. 1 lakh Cr for next 10 year (2020-2029), launched on 9 Aug 2020 by Prime
Minister.
• The period of financial facility has been extended from 4 to 6 years upto 2025-26 and overall
period of the scheme has been extended from 10 to 13 upto 2032-33.
• Credit Guarantee and Interest subvention of 3% p.a., limited to INR 2 crore, though loan
amount can be higher.
• Cap on lending rate, so that benefit of interest subsidy reaches the beneficiary and services
to farmers remain affordable.
• Project Management Unit to provide handholding support for projects including project
preparation.
• Online single window facility in collaboration with participating lending institutions.
• Convergence with all schemes of central or state government.
• Disbursement in four years starting with sanction of Rs. 10,000 crore in the first year and Rs.
30,000 crore each in next three financial years.
• Moratorium for repayment under this financing facility may vary subject to minimum of 6
months and maximum of 2 years.
• Need based refinance support will be made available by NABARD to all eligible lending
entities including cooperative banks and RRBs as per its policy.

Objectives

• This financing facility will have numerous objective for all the stakeholders in the agriculture
eco-system.

Farmers (including FPOs, PACS, Marketing Cooperative Societies, Multipurpose cooperative

societies)

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• Improved marketing infrastructure to allow farmers to sell directly to a larger base of

consumers and hence, increase value realization for the farmers. This will improve the overall
income of farmers.
• With investments in logistics infrastructure, farmers will be able to sell in the market with
reduced post-harvest losses and a smaller number of intermediaries. This further will make
farmers independent and improve access to market.
• With modern packaging and cold storage system access, farmers will be able to further decide
when to sell in the market and improve realization.
• Community farming assets for improved productivity and optimization of inputs will result in
substantial savings to farmers.

Government
• Government will be able to direct priority sector lending in the currently unviable projects by
supporting through interest subvention, incentive and credit guarantee. This will initiate the
cycle of innovation and private sector investment in agriculture.
• Due to improvements in post-harvest infrastructure, government will further be able to reduce
national food wastage percentage thereby enable agriculture sector to become competitive
with current global levels.
• Central/State Government Agencies or local bodies will be able to structure viable PPP
projects for attracting investment in agriculture infrastructure.

Agri entrepreneurs and start-ups

• With a dedicated source of funding, entrepreneurs will push for innovation in agriculture sector
by leveraging new age technologies including IoT, AI.
• It will also connect the players in ecosystem and hence, improve avenues for collaboration
between entrepreneurs and farmers.

Banking ecosystem

• With Credit Guarantee, incentive and interest subvention lending institutions will be able to
lend with a lower risk. This scheme will help to enlarge their customer base and diversification
of portfolio.
• Refinance facility will enable larger role for cooperative banks and RRBs
.
Consumers
• With reduced inefficiencies in post-harvest ecosystem, key benefit for consumers will be a
larger share of produce reaching the market and hence, better quality and prices. Overall, the
investment via the financing facility in agriculture infrastructure will benefit all the eco-system
players.

Who Can Apply/Beneficiary

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• Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS).

• Marketing Cooperative Societies.
• Farmer Producers Organizations(FPOs).
• Farmers.
• Self Help Group (SHG)
• Joint Liability Groups (JLG).
• Multipurpose Cooperative Societies.
• Agri-entrepreneurs, Startups.
• Central/State agency or Local Body sponsored Public-Private Partnership Projects.

Viable projects for building community farming assets including

• Organic inputs production

• Bio stimulant production units
• Infrastructure for smart and precision agriculture

Projects on hub and spoke model

• Projects identified for providing supply chain infrastructure for clusters of crops including
export clusters.
• PPP projects promoted by Central/State/Local Govts. or their agencies.

Post-Harvest Management Projects like

• Supply chain services including e-marketing platforms

• Warehouses
• Silos
• Packaging units
• Assaying units
• Sorting & Grading units
• Cold Stores and Cold Chain
• Logistics facilities
• Primary processing centers
• Ripening Chambers
• Waxing plants

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