कृषी मंत्रालय
शेतकऱ्यांच्या उत्पन्न वाढीसाठी
नवी दिल्ली, 21 सप्टेंबर 2020
शेतकऱ्यांचे उत्पन्न दुप्पट करण्याच्या दृष्टीने, संबंधित मुद्दे विचारात घेऊन यासंदर्भातले उद्दिष्ट साध्य करण्यासाठी रणनीतीची शिफारस करण्याकरिता केंद्र सरकारने एप्रिल 2016 मध्ये आंतर मंत्रालयीन समिती स्थापन केली. 2022 पर्यंत शेतकऱ्याचे उत्पन्न दुप्पट करण्यासाठीच्या रणनीतीचा समावेश असलेला अहवाल, समितीने सप्टेंबर 2018 मध्ये केंद्र सरकारला सादर केला. शेतकऱ्याचे उत्पन्न दुप्पट करण्यासाठी, समितीने, सात स्त्रोतांची शिफारस केली आहे. यामध्ये पिक उत्पादकता सुधारणे, पशुधन उत्पादकतेत वृद्धी, उत्पादन खर्चात बचत, उच्च मूल्य पिकांमध्ये वैविध्यता,शेतकऱ्याला प्राप्त होणाऱ्या वास्तविक दरात सुधारणा यांचा समावेश आहे. या समितीच्या शिफारसी स्वीकारल्यानंतर, प्रगतीचा आढावा घेण्यासाठी आणि देखरेख ठेवण्यासाठी केंद्र सरकारने, अधिकारप्राप्त मंडळाची स्थापना केली आहे.
कृषी हा राज्य सुचीतला विषय असल्याने या क्षेत्राच्या विकासासाठी कार्यक्रम आणि योजनांची अंमलबजावणी राज्यसरकार करते. केंद्र सरकार, विविध योजना आणि कार्यक्रमा द्वारे राज्यांच्या प्रयत्नांना सहकार्य देते. सरकारच्या विविध योजनांच्या तपशीलासाठी परिशिष्ट पाहता येईल. उत्पादनात वाढ, योग्य मोबदला, शेतकऱ्यांच्या उत्पन्नाला जोड यातून शेतकरी कल्याण साधण्याचा या योजनांचा उद्देश आहे. यामध्ये प्रधान मंत्री किसान सन्मान निधी, प्रधान मंत्री किसान मान धन योजना, प्रधान मंत्री पिक विमा योजना, सेंद्रिय शेतीला प्रोत्साहन देण्यासाठी परंपरागत कृषी विकास योजना, 2018-19 च्या खरीप आणि रब्बी पिकांसाठी किमान आधारभूत किमतीत वाढ, शेतकऱ्यांसाठी मृदा आरोग्य पत्रिका, ई- नाम यासह इतर योजना आणि कार्यक्रमाचा समावेश आहे.
दुष्काळ प्रवण आणि कोरड्या हवामानाच्या भागात खजूर शेतीला प्रोत्साहन देण्यासाठी केंद्र सरकारने उपाय योजना केल्या आहेत. राष्ट्रीय फलोत्पादन मंडळ, खजूर शेतीसाठी लागवडीकरिता मागणीच्या आधारावर सहाय्य पुरवते. याशिवाय टिश्यू कल्चर लॅब उभारणीसाठी, खाजगी क्षेत्राला खर्चाच्या 40 % तर सार्वजनिक क्षेत्रासाठी खर्चाच्या 100 % सहाय्य पुरवले जात आहे.
केंद्रीय कृषी आणि शेतकरी कल्याण मंत्री नरेंद्र सिंह तोमर यांनी काल लोकसभेत एका लेखी उत्तरात ही माहिती दिली.
Annexure
List of various interventions and schemes launched for the benefit of farmers.
 With a view to provide income support to all farmers’ families across the country, to enable them to take care of expenses related to agriculture and allied activities as well as domestic needs, the Central Government started a new Central Sector Scheme, namely, the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi . The scheme aims to provide a payment of Rs. 6000/- per year, in three 4-monthly installments of Rs. 2000/- to the farmers families, subject to certain exclusions relating to higher income groups.
 Further with a view to provide social security net for Small and Marginal Farmers  as they have minimal or no savings to provide for old age and to support them in the event of consequent loss of livelihood, the Government has decided to implement another new Central Sector Scheme i.e. Pradhan Mantri Kisan MaanDhan Yojana  for providing old age pension to these farmers. Under this Scheme, a minimum fixed pension of Rs. 3000/- will be provided to the eligible small and marginal farmers, subject to certain exclusion clauses, on attaining the age of 60 years.
 With a view to provide better insurance coverage to crops for risk mitigation, a crop insurance scheme namely Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana  was launched from Kharif 2016 season. This scheme provides insurance cover for all stages of the crop cycle including post-harvest risks in specified instances, with low premium contribution by farmers.
 Giving a major boost for the farmer’s income, the Government has approved the increase in the Minimum Support Price  for all Kharif & Rabi crops for 2018-19 season at a level of at least 150 percent of the cost of production.
 Implementation of flagship scheme of distribution of Soil Health Cards to farmers so that the use of fertilizers can be rationalized.
 “Per drop more crop” initiative under which drip/sprinkler irrigation is being encouraged for optimal utilization of water, reducing cost of inputs and increasing productivity.
 “Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana ” for promoting organic farming.
 Launch of e-NAM initiative to provide farmers an electronic transparent and competitive online trading platform.
 Under “Har Medh Par Ped”, agro forestry is being promoted for additional income. With the amendment of Indian Forest Act, 1927, Bamboo has been removed from the definition of trees. A restructured National Bamboo Mission has been launched in the year 2018 to promote bamboo plantation on non forest government as well as private land and emphasis on value addition, product development and markets.
 Giving a major boost to the pro-farmer initiatives, the Government has approved a new Umbrella Scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan ’. The Scheme is aimed at ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce as announced in the Union Budget for 2018. This is an unprecedented step taken by Govt. of India to protect the farmers’ income which is expected to go a long way towards the welfare of farmers.
 Bee keeping has been promoted under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture  to increase the productivity of crops through pollination and increase the honey production as an additional source of income of farmers.
 To ensure flow of adequate credit, Government sets annual target for the flow of credit to the agriculture sector, Banks have been consistently surpassing the annual target. The agriculture credit flow target has been set at Rs. 13.50 lakh crore for the F.Y.2019-20 and Rs.15.00 lakh crore for F.Y. 2020-21.
 Extending the reach of institutional credit to more and more farmers is priority area of the Government and to achieve this goal, the Government provides interest subvention of 2% on short-term crop loans up to Rs.3.00 lakh. Presently, loan is available to farmers at an interest rate of 4% per annum on prompt repayment.
 Further, under Interest Subvention Scheme 2018-19, in order to provide relief to the farmers on occurrence of natural calamities, the interest subvention of 2% shall continue to be available to banks for the first year on the restructured amount. In order to discourage distress sale by farmers and to encourage them to store their produce in warehouses against negotiable receipts, the benefit of interest subvention will be available to small and marginal farmers having Kisan Credit Card for a further period of upto six months post harvest on the same rate as available to crop loan.
 The Government has extended the facility of Kisan Credit Card  to the farmers practicing animal husbandry and fisheries related activities. All processing fee, inspection, ledger folio charges and all other services charges have been waived off for fresh renewal of KCC. Collateral fee loan limit for short term agri-credit has been raised from Rs.1.00 lakh to Rs.1.60 lakh. KCC will be issued within 14 days from the receipt of completed application.
 Several market reforms have been rolled out. These include
- Model APLMC  Act, 2017
- Establishment of 22,000 number of Gramin Agriculture Markets  as aggregation platforms
- Agri-Export Policy, that targets to double agri-exports by 2022
- The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce  Ordinance, 2020
- The Farmers  Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020
- Amendments to Essential Commodities Act, 1955, that deregulates various agri-commodities
- Promotion of 10,000 FPOs by 2024
 Creation of Corpus Funds
- Micro Irrigation Fund – Rs. 5,000 crores
- Agri-marketing Fund to strengthen eNAM and GrAMs – Rs. 2,000 crores
- Agricultural Infrastructure Fund  to build agri-logistics  – Rs. 1 lakh crores
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