UPPING THE ANTE

New initiatives in the context of Agriculture

Development Strategy for eleventh plan

Mukesh KhullarJoint Secretary

Department of Agriculture & CooperationMinistry of AgricultureGovernment of India

New Initiatives

Strengthening Pulses Production ProgramsFour pronged strategy on Agriculture Growth in the

Budget 2009-10 Agriculture Production Food Processing Credit Reducing Wastage of produce

Nutrient Based Subsidy effective from April 1, 2010 (Fertilizers and Chemicals)

Rs. 100 crores for ‘Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Yojana’ as a sub component of National Rural Livelihood Mission (Rural Development)

Additional Central Assistance of Rs. 1200 crores to Bundelkhand for drought mitigation (Rural Development)

Tax Concessions

Modernizing Mandis or warehousing Concessional import duty of 5 % and service tax exemption for mechanised

handling of food grains and sugar in Mandis Central excise and service tax exemption to specified equipment for storage

and warehousing of agriculture products

Promoting Cold chain infrastructure Concessional customs duty of 5 % with full exemption from service tax to

setting up of Cold storage facilities and Processing units for such produce.

Provide full exemption from customs duty to refrigeration units required for the manufacture of refrigerated vans or trucks

Promoting Farm Mechanization Concessional customs duty of 5 per cent to specified agricultural

machinery not manufactured in India; Full exemption from excise duty to trailers and semi-trailers used in

agriculture.

Transportation of produce The transportation by road of cereals, and pulses to be exempted from

service tax. Transportation by rail to remain exempt.

Agriculture Development Strategy in the 11th five year plan period

RKVY and MMA

Main Objective

Agriculture growth

Salient Feature

Full freedom to States

NFSM Food production Strategically targeted

ISOPOM Oil seeds production Strategically targeted

NHM and TMNE Horticulture End to end program

Micro Irrigation Water use efficiency Sprinklers and Drips

NREGS Water Harvesting Small Farm Development

Schemes

Schemes

Key Challenges

Sustained higher production levels of food grains More focused working especially for pulses

Regional disparity Widening the food basket Broad basing the risks of crop failure due to climatic variability

Rainfed area development Convergence – mechanism for horizontal working? Watershed management – Large scale replication of good models?

Risk mitigation for Climatic variability Integrated farming system for diversifying farm portfolio – horticulture,

fisheries, dairy etc. Wadi project of NABARD, Livelihood projects of World Bank? Seed Rolling Production Plans for quantity of needed varieties– Seeds Mission? Conservation Agriculture – National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture? Effective innovative weather based Insurance products – savings linked crop

insurance? Increased buffer stocks for food grains – grain storage grid?

Efficient marketing supply chain Scientific storage and management – fungible warehousing receipts? Processing – private investments, logistics management? Direct marketing – credible contract farming mechanism?

4- pronged Strategy on Agriculture Growth

Union Budget 2010

Ministry of Agriculture

Ministry of Food and Consumer

Affairs

Ministry of Finance

Ministry of Food Processing

Focus on Pulses and oilseeds

Strengthening NFSM Pulses Merger of ISOPOM for pulses with NFSM

More funds – about 1000 crores in next two years Accelerated pulses production program (A3P)

Block demonstrations of soil nutrient and plant protection centric technology in 1000 units of 1000 hectares compact block each for five major pulses with an outlay of 700 crores

Provision for extension staff at unit level Inclusion of Jharkhand and Assam States

More funds available under ISOPOM for oilseeds development

Integrated development of 60,000 pulses and oilseeds villages in rainfed areas with an outlay of 300 crores under RKVY Watershed management and water harvesting

Community tanks Field channels

Dry land farming Watershed plus activities for crop development

Convergence with NFSM, ISOPOM, NHM, NREGA and NWDPRA

Next Steps for A3P

Prepare an action plan as per the guidelines for implementing A3P from April 2010 Identification of beneficiaries and units among villages Preparing unit wise district level plans

Ensure supply of gypsum and plant protection chemicals to identified beneficiaries through the designated agencies

Engage extension staff for unit level positioning and impart an orientation training KVKs could be actively associated

Capacity building for pest monitoring and pest surveillance by NCIPM

Modalities for implementing integrated development of 60,000 pulses and oilseeds villages being worked out

Inter State Productivity Gaps

State CAGR2003-04 2007-08 2008-09*

2003-04 to 2007-08

Production Yield Production Yield Production YieldNormal Yield

Max Yield

West Bengal 0.69 14662.3 2504 14719.5 2573 15554.0 2646 2550 2593Andhra Pradesh 2.67 8953.0 3009 13324.0 3344 14207.0 3247 3080 3344Uttar Pradesh -1.45 13018.8 2187 11780.0 2063 13074.0 2171 1986 2187Punjab 2.13 9656.0 3694 10489.0 4019 11000.0 4022 3876 4019Orissa 3.15 6733.7 1496 7540.7 1694 6762.0 1520 1540 1694Bihar -5.07 5447.8 1523 4418.1 1237 5668.7 1610 1233 1523Tamil Nadu 5.11 3222.8 2308 5040.2 2817 5201.0 2510 2783 3423Chattisgarh -0.14 5567.6 1454 5426.6 1446 4391.8 1176 1353 1454Assam -1.77 3880.0 1534 3319.0 1428 3775.0 1720 1448 1534Karnataka 2.54 2550.3 2375 3717.0 2625 3690.0 2434 2846 3868Jharkhand 4.45 2310.0 1695 3336.4 2018 3304.9 1947 1628 2018Haryana 5.16 2790.0 2749 3613.0 3361 3298.0 2726 3072 3361Maharashtra 0.67 2835.0 1853 2996.0 1903 2311.0 1506 1729 1903All India 1.45 88526.0 2078 96692.9 2202 99153.7 2186 2101 2202CAGR** 1.05

Rice Production in (‘000) tons Yield in kg/ha

Eastern Region Development

Additional Rs. 400 crores provided for the agriculture development in Eastern Region comprising of Eastern UP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal

Funds would be released under RKVY. States are expected to prepare an action plan containing the following points Identification of key technologies, constraints in development and

inter se priority for implementation for visible impact Situation report on current initiatives, preparation of multi year

strategy for agriculture development in sync with the DAPs by pooling the resources from State plan, and convergence with other ongoing schemes

Preparation of projects to implement the strategy in a budget proposal worked out by each State

Allocation of budget for each State as per the proposal and approval of projects within an overall budget allocated for each State

Mechanism for regular monitoring of the progress of implementation of the projects

Detailed set of instructions would be prepared in consultation with the States for implementation from the Rabi season

Lower Gangetic Plains Region

(WB other than Purulia and hill districts)

Lower Gangetic Plains Region

(WB other than Purulia and hill districts)Middle Gangetic Plains Region

(Eastern U.P. and Bihar)Middle Gangetic Plains Region

(Eastern U.P. and Bihar)

• Basically a rice mono cropped area• Increasing the cropping intensity by

utilizing Rabi fallows after harvest of Kharif rice by promoting the cultivation of pulses and oilseeds

• Diversification of upland rice areas which are less productive to suitable crops like pulses, oilseeds and millets.

• Development of on-farm irrigation resources through exploitation of ground water potential which is abundant.

• Improving subsurface soil drainage

• Rice, wheat, sugarcane are the major crops. However, productivity is low.

• Popularisation of Short duration high yielding varieties/hybrids of rice.

• Promotion of maize cultivation especially in Rabi as it has high potential

• Promotion of early maturing varieties of sugarcane for higher sugar recovery

• Development of on-farm irrigation resources thorough exploitation of ground water potential

• Cattle rearing, poultry, goat rearing and fish farming as an off farm activity.

Agri eco Zone wise Regional Strategy

Eastern Plateau & Hills Region (Parts of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh)Eastern Plateau & Hills Region (Parts of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh)

East Coast Plains & Hills (Part of Orissa)

East Coast Plains & Hills (Part of Orissa)

• Management of rainwater harvesting and storage for increasing crop productivity

• Promotion of High yielding varieties/hybrids especially that of rice

• Expansion of area under High value cash crops and vegetables

• Improvement in seed supply so as to increase the SRR

• Improvement in productivity of crops in acidic soils through lime treatment

• Rice is the lead crop in this zone. However, the productivity is low. High yielding varieties for water logged areas and upland areas needs to be propagated

• Discouraging the cultivation of rice in marginal lands and diversifying in favour of oilseeds and pulses

• Utilization of rice fallows for increasing the cropping intensity.

• Rice-fish culture• Improving soil drainage

Agri eco zone wise Regional Strategy

Sum up

Emphasis on Pulses through revamped programmatic interventions and prevailing good market price should help in achievement of production targets of pulses

Focus on Eastern Region that has huge potential would help macro level stability of agriculture production

Enabling policies on market development would bring in private investments for value addition to the harvests and efficiency gains in supply chain

IMPLEMENTATION IS THE KEY

New initiatives Better targeting and delivery of

services

Thanks !!

khullar.m@nic.in