Lok Sabha Question No. 4865 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-23
Subject: Facilities and Schemes for Production of Pulses
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4865

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 23 RD  JULY, 2019

## FACILITIES AND SCHEMES FOR PRODUCTION OF PULSES

## 4865.   SHRI SADASHIV LOKHANDE:

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

- (a) the types of facilities and the schemes under which farmers of Maharashtra are being given facilities for farming of pulses;
- (b) the amount earmarked to promote farming and to increase the production of pulses alongwith the amount utilized during the last three years for the said purpose;
- (c) the area of land on which farmers in Maharashtra are growing pulses along with the area of land in percentile terms in the State of Maharashtra; and
- (d) the efforts being made by the Government to increase the production of pulses in Maharashtra?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

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

(a) to (d ): In  order  to  increase  the  production  and  productivity  of  pulses  in  the  State  of Maharashtra, National Food Security Mission (NFSM) -Pulses is being implemented since 2007-08 Under  this  programme,  assistance  to  the  farmers  is  given  for  cluster  demonstration  on  improved package of practices, demonstration on cropping system, seed distribution and seed production of high  yielding  varieties,  farm  machineries  including  resources  conservation,  sprinkler  and  water carrying  pipes,    plant  protection  measures  (plant  protection  chemicals,  weedicides,  bio-agents) micro-nutrients management, bio-fertilizers, soil ameliorants (lime, gypsum), cropping system based training of farmers and need based local initiatives .

Details of funds earmarked and utilized for promoting pulses production in Maharashtra during last three years is as under:

|         | Funds allocated (Rs. in lakh)                   | Funds allocated (Rs. in lakh)                  |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| Year    | Funds Available (central + state Share) (60:40) | Funds Utilized (central + state Share) (60:40) |
| 2016-17 | 19856.62                                        | 19217.16                                       |
| 2017-18 | 20713.45                                        | 18726.87                                       |
| 2018-19 | 17158.32                                        | 14301.14                                       |
| 2019-20 | 18298.94                                        | -                                              |

The pulses are grown mostly under rainfed condition covering Nasik, Pune, Kolhapur, Aurangabad, Latur, Amravati and Nagpur divisions during Kharif and Rabi season. As per 3 rd Advance Estimate, 2018-19, Directorate of Economics & Statistics (DES), total sown area under pulses is 289.0 lakh ha, out of which 35.1 lakh ha area was sown in Maharashtra which is about 12.15%.

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