Lok Sabha Question No. 1539 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-25
Subject: Implementation of e-NAM Scheme
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, SUNIL BALIRAM GAIKWAD, KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, T. RADHAKRISHNAN, ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, VIJAY KUMAR S.R., RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO, P.R. SUNDARAM, SUDHEER GUPTA, GAJANAN CHANDRAKANT KIRTIKAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1539

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 25 TH  JULY, 2017

## IMPLEMENTATION OF E-NAM SCHEME

## 1539.      DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

DR. SUNIL BALIRAM GAIKWAD:

KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH:

SHRI T. RADHAKRISHNAN:

SHRI ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

SHRI P.R. SUNDARAM:

SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA:

SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has called a meeting with the State representatives to review the progress of two priority programmes namely National Agricultural Market (e-NAM) and Soil Health Card recently;
- (b) if so, the details of State representatives who have attended the said review meeting and the main issues discussed in the review meeting along with the outcome thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has also highlighted the Centrally Sponsored schemes to the farmers of the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the steps taken/being taken by the Government for effective implementation of Centrally Sponsored agriculture schemes in the country and to enhance the farmers income; and
- (e) the other steps taken by the Government to enhance the income of the farmers?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंालय म राय मंी (SHRI  PARSHOTTAM  RUPALA)

(a) & (b): Yes, Madam.   The meeting was convened on 5.7.2017 and the details of State representatives  who  attended  are  placed  at  Annexure-I.  The  progress  of  implementation  of National  Agriculture  Market  (e-NAM)  and  Soil  Health  Card  schemes,  adoption  of  Model Agriculture    Produce    and  Livestock   Marketing (Promotion & Facilitation)    Act,   2017  were

discussed  in  the  meeting.  State  representatives  were  requested  to  make  all  efforts  for successful implementation of these schemes to achieve the respective objective.

(c) & (d): The Government is educating farmers about the centrally Sponsored Schemes of Department  of  Agriculture,  Cooperation  &  Farmers'  Welfare  through  awareness  and  training campaigns, electronic and print media, krishi melas and seminars. The steps taken for effective implementation of these schemes include review meetings with State Governments and officials of implementing agencies and other stakeholders, awareness and trainings programmes, video conferences and field visits etc. The schemes are also evaluated through a third party for its continuation beyond the prescribed period. Based on the outcome of the studies, the provisions of  the  schemes  are  improved  to  make  them  more  effective  in  bringing  the  benefits  to  the farmers.    Further,  Government  is  taking  several  steps  to  enhance  the  income  of  farmers including:

(i) Soil  Health  Card  (SHC)  scheme  by  which  the  farmers  can  know  the  major  and  minor nutrients  available  in  their  soils  which  will  ensure  judicious  use  of  fertiliser  application  and reduce cost of inputs and improve soil fertility.

(ii) Neem Coated Urea is being promoted to regulate use of urea, enhance its availability to the crop and  reduce cost of fertilizer application. The  entire quantity of domestically manufactured and imported urea is now neem coated.

(iii) Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) is being implemented with a view to promote organic farming in  the  country.    This  will  improve  soil  health  and  organic  matter  content  and increase net income of the farmer so as to realise premium prices.

(iv) The  Pradhan  Mantri  Krishi  Sinchai  Yojana  (PMKSY)  is  being  implemented  to  expand cultivated  area  with  assured  irrigation,  reduce  wastage  of  water  and  improve  water  use efficiency.

(v) The  National  Agriculture  Market  scheme  (e-NAM)  was  launched  on  14.04.2016.  The Scheme envisages initiation of e-marketing platform at national level and will support creation of infrastructure  to  enable  e-marketing  in  585  regulated  markets  across  the  country  by  March 2018.  So  far,  455  markets  of  13  States  have  been  integrated  with  e-NAM.  This  innovative market  process  evisages  better  price  discovery,  transparency  and  competition  to  enable farmers to  get  improved  remuneration  for  their  produce  and  move  towards  'One  Nation  One Market'.

(vi) Pradhan  Mantri  Fasal  Bima  Yojana  (PMFBY)  is  being  implemented  from  Kharif  2016 season and is available  to  the farmers  at  low  rates  of  premium.  This  scheme  would  provide insurance  cover  for  all  stages  of  the  crop  cycle  including  post-harvest  risks  in  specified instances.

(vii)    The  Government  provides  interest  subvention  of  3%  on  short-term  crop  loans  up  to Rs.3.00 lakh.  Presently, loan is available to farmers at an interest rate of 7% per annum, which gets reduced to 4% on prompt repayment.  Further, under Interest Subvention Scheme 201617,  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 warehouse 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.

- (viii)  Rashtriya  Krishi  Vikas  Yojana  (RKVY)  enables  Governments  to  further  implement  the scheme  in  the  State  as  per  its  requirement  in  areas  which  requires  focused  attention  for increasing  production  and  productivity  in  the  State. The  States  have  been  provided  flexibility and autonomy for selection, planning approval and execution of projects/programs under the scheme as per their need, priorities and agro-climate requirements.
- (ix)    Under  National  Food  Security  Mission  (NFSM),  a  Centrally  Sponsored  scheme,  NFSMPulses  is  being  implemented  in  638  districts  of  29  States,  NFSM-Rice  in  194  districts  of  25 States,  NFSM-Wheat  in  126  district  of  11  States  and  NFSM-Coarse  Cereals  is  being implemented  in  265  districts  of  28  States  of  the  country  for  increasing  the  production  and productivity  of  Rice,  wheat,  pulses  and  coarse  cereal  crops.  Under  NFSM,  assistance  is provided  to  farmers  for  distribution  of  Seeds  (HYVs/Hybrids),  production  of  seeds  (only  in pulses), INM and IPM techniques, resource conservation technologies/tools/farm mechanization, efficient water application tools, cropping system based trainings to farmers and also assistance for value addition.
- (x)    National  Mission  on  Oilseeds  and  Oil Palm  (NMOOP) programme, is being implemented since 2014-15. The objective of NMOOP is to increase production and productivity of oilseeds for meeting the domestic requirement of vegetable oil. The various interventions of this mission are implemented through the State Department of Agriculture/Horticulture.
- (xi)  Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, is being implemented w.e.f. 2014-15, for holistic growth of the horticulture sector covering fruits vegetable, root and tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, cocoa and bamboo. The Mission subsumes National Horticulture Mission (NHM), Horticulture Mission  for  North  East  &  Himalayan  States  (HMNEH),  National  Horticulture  Board  (NHB), Coconut Development Board (CDB) and Central Institute for Horticulture (CIH), Nagaland. All States and UTs are covered under MIDH.

The other steps taken by farmers to enhance the income of farmers are as under:

(i) The Government has drafted a new model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion  &  Facilitation)  Act,  2017,  which  was  released  on  24.04.2017  for  adoption  by  the States  through  legislation  of  their  respective  Acts.  The  Act  provides  the  options  of  alternate markets  beyond  the  existing  APMC  regulated  market  yards  including  private  markets,  direct marketing, farmer-consumer markets, special commodity markets, declaring warehouses/silos/cold storages  or  such  structures  as  market  sub yards  and  Market  Yards  of National Importance (MNI) so as to reduce the number of intermediaries between producer and buyer and increase the share of the farmer in consumer's rupee.

- (ii) The Government  undertakes procurement of wheat and paddy under its  'MSP operations'.  In  addition,  Government  implements  Market  Intervention  Scheme  (MIS)  for procurement of agricultural and horticultural commodities not covered under the Minimum Price Support Scheme on the request of State/UT Government. The MIS is implemented in order to protect the growers of these commodities from making distress sale in the event of bumper crop when the prices tend to fall below the economic level/cost of production.
- (iii) MSP  is  notified  for  both  Kharif  &  Rabi  crops  based  on  the  recommendations  of  the Commission on Agriculture Costs & Prices (CACP). The Commission collects & analyses data on cost of cultivation and recommends MSP.  To incentivise cultivation of pulses and oilseeds in the country, Government has announced bonus for Kharif 2017-18, over & above the approved MSP.  Even during last year, Government had offered bonus over & above the MSP, in the case of pulses and oilseeds.

Government led other market interventions such as Price Stabilization Fund and Food Corporation of India operations also supplement efforts to enhance the income of farmers.

Apart from the above, the Government is also focusing on ancillary activities like Beekeeping for increasing of farmers' income.

## Details of State representatives who attended the meeting on 05.07.2017

| S. No.   | Name and Designation of the representative from State/UTs                                                    |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1)       | Sh Anup Shrivastava, Secretary (Agriculture), Department of Agriculture, Chhattisgarh                        |
| 2)       | Sh Bijay Kumar, Principal Secretary (Agri Marketing), Govt of Maharashtra                                    |
| 3)       | Sh Mahendra Lokhande, AGM (IT) Maharashtra State Agri Marketing board                                        |
| 4)       | Sh Prabhu Lal Saini, Hon'ble Minister for State Agriculture, Govt. of Rajasthan                              |
| 5)       | Sh Nannu Mal Pahadia, Director (Agri Marketing), Govt. of Rajasthan                                          |
| 6)       | Sh Naresh Yadav, Dy Director, Deptt of Agri Marketing, Rajasthan                                             |
| 7)       | Sh Vikas Bhale, Commissioner Agriculture, Govt. of Rajasthan                                                 |
| 8)       | Sh Ajai Pachori, Jt Director (Chemistry), Rajasthan                                                          |
| 9)       | Sh Surya Pratap Shahi, Hon'ble Minister for State Agriculture, Govt. of UP                                   |
| 10)      | Smt Swati Singh, Hon'ble State Minister for Agriculture Marketing, Govt. of UP                               |
| 11)      | Sh Gyan Singh, Director (Agriculture), Govt of Uttar Pradesh                                                 |
| 12)      | Dr Pankaj Tripathi, Joint Director Agr. RSS, Govt of Uttar Pradesh                                           |
| 13)      | Sh Jitendra Pratap Singh, Additional Director, Mandi Parishad, Uttar Pradesh                                 |
| 14)      | Sh N.K.Malik, Dy Director, Agri Marketing Board, Uttar Pradesh                                               |
| 15)      | Dr Sunil Kumar Yadav, Mandi Parishad, UP                                                                     |
| 16)      | Sh H.D.Sharma, Additional Secretary, Govt. of Assam                                                          |
| 17)      | Sh Debjit Neog, Nodal officer(SHM), Assam                                                                    |
| 18)      | Sh Rana Pratap Dutta, Asst. Marketing Officer, Assam State Agri Marketing Board                              |
| 19)      | Sh Abhilaksh Likki, Principal Secretary (Agriculture), Govt of Haryana                                       |
| 20)      | Sh J. Ganesan, CA, HSAMB                                                                                     |
| 21)      | Sh Prem Singh, Tech Adviser, HSAMB                                                                           |
| 22)      | Sh Sunil Sharma, Marketing Dev. Officer, HSAMB, Panchkula                                                    |
| 23)      | Sh Anil Kumar, Addl. Director(Agriculture), Haryana                                                          |
| 24)      | Sh Sushil Kumar, Under Secretary, Bihar State Agri Marketing Board, Bihar                                    |
| 25)      | Sh Ram Prakash Sharma, Joint Director, Soil test, Bihar                                                      |
| 26)      | Sh T. Harish Rao, Hon'ble Minister for State Irrigation, Marketing & Legislative Affairs, Govt. of Telangana |
| 27)      | Smt G.Lakshmi Bai, Telangana Agri Marketing Deptt, Govt of Telangana                                         |
| 28)      | Sh Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary, Agri Coop Department, Govt of Gujarat                                 |
| 29)      | Sh F.G.Pandya, Director Agri Marketing, Gujarat                                                              |
| 30)      | Sh A.K. Bhatt, MD, GSAMB, Gujarat                                                                            |
| 31)      | Sh N.K.Kathad, Add. Director of Agri (SC), Gujarat                                                           |
| 32)      | Sh B.M Modi, Director of Agri, Govt of Gujarat                                                               |
| 33)      | Sh Nitin M.Shukla, Dy Director of Agri, Directorate of Agri, Krishi bhawan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat             |

| 34)   | Sh Arvind Mehta, Additional Chief Secretary (Agriculture), Govt of Himachal Pradesh                                            |
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| 35)   | Sh Hemraj Thakur, Subject matter spl, Director of Agri, Himachal Pradesh                                                       |
| 36)   | Sh Govind Rai , DC, HPSAMB, Shimla                                                                                             |
| 37)   | Sh D.D.Sharma, SMO, HPSAMB                                                                                                     |
| 38)   | Sh Vimal, Spl Sec cum MD Marketing board, Jharkhand                                                                            |
| 39)   | Sh Vikas Garg, Spl Secy Agri, Punjab                                                                                           |
| 40)   | Sh Bhaskar Sharma, Spl Secy Agri, Odisha                                                                                       |
| 41)   | Sh Subodh Uniyal, Hon'ble Minister for State Agriculture & Agri Marketing, Govt. of Uttarakhand                                |
| 42)   | Sh Ranbir Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt of Uttarakhand                                                               |
| 43)   | Sh Vijay Thapliyal, Secretary Mandi, Dehradun                                                                                  |
| 44)   | Sh Vijay kumar, GM Mandi Uttarakhand                                                                                           |
| 45)   | Sh Gourishankar Chaturbhuj Bisen, Hon'ble Minister for State Farmers Welfare & Agriculture Department, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh |
| 46)   | Sh Rakesh Srivastava, MP Mandi Board, MP                                                                                       |
| 47)   | Sh Vinay Nigam, AMD, Mandi Board, MP                                                                                           |

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