Lok Sabha Question No. 410 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-19
Subject: Increasing Production of Rabi Crops
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Locket Chatterjee

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.410

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  19 TH  NOVEMBER, 2019

## INCREASING PRODUCTION OF RABI CROPS

410.   MS. LOCKET CHATTERJEE:

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

- (a) whether the Government is taking any steps to increase the production of Rabi crops across the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government is taking any steps to increase the production of pulses and oilseeds across the country; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी ( SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a)  & (b):        In order to increase the production of crops including Rabi crops across the country,  the  Government  is  implementing  various  schemes  viz.,  National  Food  Security Mission  (NFSM)  including  oilseeds,  Mission  for  Integrated  Development  of  Horticulture (MIDH),  National  Mission  for  Sustainable  Agriculture  (NMSA),  Sub  Mission  on  Seeds  and Planting  Materials  (SMSP),  Sub  Mission  on  Agricultural  Mechanisation  (SMAM),  Rashtriya Krishi  Vikas  Yojana  (RKVY),      Pradhan    Mantri    Fasal    Bima  Yojana  (PMFBY),  Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY), Pramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana ( PMKVY), etc.
- (c)  &  (d):        For  increasing  the  production  and  productivity  of  Pulses  in  the  country, Government  is  implementing  NFSM-Pulses  in  638  districts  of  28  States  and  2  Union Territories (Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh) of the country. Under this Mission, assistance is being provided to the farmers on cluster demonstrations, cropping system based demonstrations, seed distribution, seed production, micro-nutrients, soil ameliorants, resource conservation techniques/ tools, water application tools and cropping system based trainings etc.

Government  is  also  implementing  special  action  plan  on  intercropping  of  Pulses with sugarcane and programme on increasing Pulses productivity in low productivity districts of the country under NFSM- Pulses.

Government is implementing National Food Security Mission (NFSM)-Oilseeds and Oil  Palm  to  increase  production  of  oilseeds  and  domestic  availability  of  edible  oils.  The scheme is under operation in 29 states and has three sub-components namely Oilseeds, Oil Palm and Tree Borne Oilseeds (TBOs). The main objective is to increase oilseeds production & productivity and area expansion under Oil Palm & TBOs cultivation.

Under this  scheme, incentives  are provided to  the farmers  like  distribution  of  newly released  varieties,  supply  of  seed  minikits,  block  demonstrations  including  bee-keeping through State Governments, front line & cluster front line demonstrations through ICAR/SAUs-KVKs,  farmers'  training,  improved  farm  implements,  micro-irrigation  systems, water carrying pipes, seed storage bins, seed treatment drums, bio-pesticides, micronutrients, bio-fertilizers and bio-agents.

Besides,  a  special  programme  is  also  being  implemented  on  Targeting  Rice  Fellow Area (TRFA) in 6 Eastern States namely, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and  West  Bengal.  This  programme  has  also  been  extended  to  other  States  i.e.  Andhra Pradesh,  Gujarat,  Maharashtra,  Madhya  Pradesh,  Karnataka  and  Tamil  Nadu  for  Rabi oilseeds and pulses from 2019-20.

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