Lok Sabha Question No. 343 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-05
Subject: Operation Green and Operation Flood
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shrirang Appa Barne, PRITAM GOPINATH MUNDE, KUNWAR PUSHPENDRA SINGH CHANDEL, ANANDRAO  ADSUL, SHIVAJI ADHALRAO PATIL, SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.343

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 5 TH   FEBRUARY, 2019

## OPERATION  GREEN  AND  OPERATION FLOOD

343.   SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE:

DR.  PRITAM  GOPINATH MUNDE:

SHRI  KUNWAR PUSHPENDRA SINGH CHANDEL:

SHRI ANANDRAO ADSUL:

SHRI ADHALRAO  PATIL SHIVAJIRAO:

DR.  SHRIKANT  EKNATH SHINDE:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has launched Operation Green which aims to aid farmers to double their income by 2022 if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  the  Government  has finalised the modalities of Operation Green, if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the  allocation  made  for implementation of Operation Green;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has evaluated  the  performance  of  Operation Flood, if so, the achievements made under the  Operation  Flood  particularly  in Bundelkhand;
- (e) the extent to which the Operation Flood has increased the income of farmers;
- (f) the  extent  to  which  Operation Flood has minimised stray cow problem in the country particularly in Bundelkhand; and
- (g) whether the Government has linked the production areas with the consumption centres particularly  in  Bundelkhand  to increase product sales and if so, the details thereof?

## 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) to (c): In  pursuance  to  budget  announcement  for  the  year  2018-19,  Ministry  of  Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has launched a new central sector scheme 'Operation Greens A scheme for integrated development of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) value chain' with a budgetary allocation of Rs. 500 crore spread over 2018-19 and 2019-20 with allocation of Rs. 200 crore and Rs. 300 crore respectively.

Scheme Guidelines are available in public domain at http://mofpi.nic.in/Schemes/download-guidelines-9

(d)  to  (g):        The  Operation  Flood  (OF)  Programme  was  implemented  by  the  National  Dairy Development  Board  in  three  phases  between  1970-1996  which  connected  the  rural  milk producers  to  the  urban  consumers  through  the  network  of  dairy  cooperatives  and  laid  the foundation for White Revolution in the country. OF assisted in establishing 73,000 village milk producers' cooperatives in 170 milk sheds. Notably 9 million milk producing households came under the fold of OF.  The physical progress of Dairy Cooperatives during OF is at Annexure.

Operation Flood is considered as world's largest food and development programme. The World Bank Report 'India: The Dairy Revolution - the Impact of Dairy Development in India and the  World  Bank's  Contribution'  by  Wilfred  Candler  and  Nalini  Kumar,  1998  highlights  the progress of Operation Flood. It mentions that with an investment of Rs.20 billion, the Operation Flood Programme provided net return of Rs.2400 billion to the rural economy each year, which was remarkably highest input-output ratio. Further, it has also contributed to an increase of 40 million tonnes in milk production and there was an annual estimated gain of about Rs. 30,000 crore due to the programme.

The Operation Flood has increased the productivity thus addressed the problem of stray cattle to some extent.

During  Operation  Flood,  some  part  of  current  Bundelkhand  region  was  covered  by 'Sagar Milk Union', formed during 1980-81. At present in cooperative sector, in Bundelkhand region  of  Madhya  Pradesh-Bundelkhand  Milk  Union  and  in  Bundelkhand  region  of  Uttar Pradesh - Chitrakoot and Jhansi Milk Unions are operational.  In addition to this NDDB Dairy Service (NDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has initiated  dairy  development  activities  in  the  Bundelkhand  region  (both  Uttar  Pradesh  and Madhya Pradesh)  with financial assistance from national rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM),  a project  under  ministry  of  Rural  Development,  Government  of  India.    Under  NRLM  mission  3 dairy  development projects have been sanctioned for Bundelkhand region.  These are- Dairy Development Project in Sagar, Dairy Development Project in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, and Dairy Development project  in 5 districts of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh.  The existing set up in cooperative sector and producer companies as well as new projects under NRLM will strengthen the linkage of production area with the consumption center in Bundelkhand region.

Annexure

## Physical progress of Dairy Cooperatives during Operation Flood(OF)

| Parameters                      | Unit              | Pre-OF June 1970   | End of OF March 1996   |
|---------------------------------|-------------------|--------------------|------------------------|
| Producer Members                | Million           | 0.11               | 9.3                    |
| Village Societies               | No                | 1,350              | 72,744                 |
| District union/milksheds        | No                | 5                  | 170                    |
| Districts covered               | No                | 5                  | 352                    |
| States/UTs covered              | No                | 1                  | 23                     |
| Average liquid milk procurement | Million Kg/day    | 0.31               | 10.9                   |
| Average liquid milk sale        | Million litre/day | 0.9                | 9.9                    |
| Rural processing capacity       | Million litre/day | 0.66               | 19.2                   |
| Drying capacity                 | Tonnes/day        | -                  | 990                    |
| Cattle feed capacity            | Tonnes/day        | -                  | 5,205                  |

Source: Milk Unions & Federations

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