Lok Sabha Question No. 2273 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-15
Subject: Organic Farming in NER
Ministry: DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION
Asked by: NAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN

## Government of India

## Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

## LOK SABHA

## Unstarred Question No. 2273

## To be answered on

Wednesday, March 15, 2017/Phalguna 24, 1938 (Saka)

## Question

## Organic Farming in NER

2273. SHRI NAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN:

Will  the  Minister  of  DEVELOPMENT  OF  NORTH  EASTERN  REGION  be pleased to state:

- (a) Whether the Government has announced a programme focusing on organic farming for North Eastern Region :
- (b) If so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the  progress  made  in  this  regard  along  with  the  funds  allocated  for  this purpose, State-wise?

## The Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of

## ANSWER North Eastern Region [Dr. Jitendra Singh]

- (a)        Ministry  of  Agriculture  and  Farmers  Welfare  has  launched  a  Scheme  titled 'Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region' for the eight North Eastern States in 2015-16.
- (b) The scheme aims at development of certified organic production in a value chain mode to link growers with consumers and to support the development of entire value chain starting from inputs, seeds, certification,  to  the  creation  of facilities for collection,  aggregation,  processing,  marketing  and  brand  building  initiative.  The scheme has been approved with an outlay of Rs. 400 crore for three years.

The assistance is provided for cluster development, on/off farm input production, supply of seeds/ planting materials, setting up of functional infrastructure, establishment  of  integrated  processing  unit,  refrigerated  transportation,  pre-cooling /cold  stores  chamber,  branding  labeling  and  packaging,  hiring  of  space,  hand holdings, organic certification through third party, mobilization of farmers/processors etc.

(c) As per available information, during 2015-16, an amount of Rs. 112.11 crore has  been  released  to  the  States.  In  the  current  year  (2016-17),  total  expenditure incurred is Rs 32.07 crore, Rs.31.02 crore have been released to the States during the  current  year.    The  progress  along  with  fund  allocation  state-wise  under  this scheme is given below:

|           | States            | No. of Farmers       | Area covered in   | Amount released in   | (Rs. in lakhs) Amount released in   |
|-----------|-------------------|----------------------|-------------------|----------------------|-------------------------------------|
| S. No. 1. | Assam             | Producers Company 10 | ha 5000           | 2015-16 2207.32      | 2016-17 231.98                      |
| 2.        | Manipur           | 10                   | 5000              | 803.73               | 370.69                              |
| 3.        | Meghalaya         | 12                   | 6000              | 1293.22              | --                                  |
| 4.        | Nagaland          | 12                   | 6000              | 627.86               | 798.88                              |
| 5.        | Mizoram           | 14                   | 7000              | 913.34               | 969.09                              |
| 6.        | Arunachal Pradesh | 10                   | 5000              | 779.31               | 522.65                              |
| 7.        | Sikkim            | 28                   | 14000             | 4216.08              | --                                  |
| 8.        | Tripura           | 4                    | 2000              | 370.13               | 208.45                              |
|           | Total             | 100                  | 50000             | 11210.99             | 3101.74                             |

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