Lok Sabha Question No. 3473 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-10
Subject: Supply of Farm Machinery
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: A.K.P. Chinraj, Hemant Patil, Vinayak Bhaurao Raut, Shrirang Appa Barne

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3473

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 10 TH   DECEMBER, 2019

## SUPPLY OF FARM MACHINERY

3473. SHRI A.K.P. CHINRAJ: SHRI HEMANT SRIRAM PATIL: DR. HEENA GAVIT: SHRI VINAYAK RAUT: SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE:

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

- (a) whether the Government is aware that marginal farmers who holds lands less than two hectares are unable to own farm machinery on their own or through institutional credit and they still  use  manual  labour,  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  reasons  for  not  providing  them  with farm equipment;
- (b) the  details  of  farm  equipment,  implements  and  tools  developed  in  the  recent  past  to reduce  the  manual  labour  of  the  farmers  and  the  details  of  Central  institutions  involved  in developing the above equipment;
- (c) the  programmes/workshops organised/being organised to  encourage farmers for using farm  machinery  and  equipment  for  agricultural  activities  and  the  agencies  involved  for  the purpose;
- (d) whether the Government advances loans at low interests to purchase these equipments, if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the  steps  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  to  provide  incentives  to  agricultural  scientists  to develop farm machinery and equipment for the farmers at affordable cost?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

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

- (a): To make available costly and bigger advance farm machinery at the door steps of the farmers on rent basis, Custom Hiring Centres (CHC) are promoted through a dedicated scheme Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM); under which subsidy is provided @ of 40% of the project cost to individual farmer upto a project cost of Rs.60 lakh and 80% to the group of farmers upto  a  project  cost  of  Rs.  10  lakh.    A  special  consideration  for  the  farmers  of  North Eastern Region (NER) is available, 95% subsidy upto a project cost of Rs. 10 lakh is provided to group of NER farmers for establishment of Custom Hiring Centres. For establishment of Hi-tech and Hi-value agricultural machinery CHC,  assistance @ of 40% of the project cost to individual farmer upto a project cost of Rs.250 lakh is provided.

To  address  air  pollution  due  to  crop  burning,  a  new  Central  Sector  Scheme  on 'Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization for In-Situ Management of Crop Residue in the States of  Punjab,  Haryana,  Uttar  Pradesh  and  NCT  of  Delhi'  (CRM)  for  the  period  from  2018-19  to 2019-20  has  been  launched.  Under  the  scheme  to  establish  Custom  Hiring  of  in-situ  crop residue management machinery a financial assistance @ 80% of the project cost is provided to the farmers.

Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM), the small manual as well as bullock drawn agricultural equipments and tools are promoted with a higher subsidy @ 50% to small & marginal,SC/ST and women farmers than other farmers which is 40%.

The  Government  has  developed  and  launched  Multi  lingual  Mobile  App  'CHC-  Farm Machinery' which helps the farmers for getting rented farm machinery and implements through Custom Hiring Service Centers (CHC) in their  area. As on date, 41,992 CHCs with 1,33,723 Agricultural machinery for renting out are registered on this Mobile app. Total 1,12,505 farmers as users are registered on this Mobile App.

The  details  of  the  custom  hiring  centres  established,  State/UT-wise,  year-wise  under SMAM and CRM is enclosed as Annexure-I and II respectively.

(b): The  details  of  farm  equipment,  implements  and  tools  developed  in  the  recent  past  to reduce the manual labour of the farmers are given in Annexure-III.

Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) and other four Institutes of ICAR and their Centres of All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Farm  Mechanization  (25  Centres),  Utilization  of  Animal  Energy  (9  Centres),  Energy  in Agriculture  and  Agro-Industries  (16  Centres),  Ergonomics  and  Safety  in  Agriculture  (12 Centres),  Post  harvest  Engineering  and  Technology  (30  Centres),  Centres  of  Consortia Research Project on Farm Mechanization and Precision Farming (8 Centres) and Energy from Agriculture (09 Centres) are involved in developing the various agricultural equipments.

(c): Government  has  established  four  number  of  Farm  Machinery  Training  &  Testing Institutes ( FMTTIs) which are located at Budni (Madhya Pradesh), Hissar (Haryana), Anantapur (Andhra Pradesh) and Bishwanath Chariali (Assam). These FMTTIs are engaged in imparting training  to  various categories of  trainees including farmers in the field of farm mechanization. During  2014-15  to  2019-20  (till  date),  these  FMTTIs  have  trained  50112  trainees.  Year  wise trainees trained by FMTTIs is enclosed as Annexure-IV.

To create awareness among farmers on farm machinery and other modern agricultural technologies, ICAR Institutes are  also  regularly  conducts  training  programmes  for  extension functionaries/farmers / entrepreneurs and participates in number of Kisan mela and agri-fairs to update them on available new agricultural machinery. Under the scheme of Mera Gaon Mera Desh,  Institutes  have  adopted  140  villages  in  different  districts  of  the  country.  The  institute scientists  is  organizing  Interface  meetings  with  farmers  of  these  adopted  villages,  several demonstrations of Institute technologies and short duration training programmes of 1 to 5 day duration are being organized.

(d): The Government has introduced the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme, which enables farmers  to  purchase  agricultural  inputs and  draw  cash  to  satisfy  their agricultural  and consumption  needs.    The  KCC  Scheme  has  since  been  simplified  and  converted  into  ATM enabled  RuPay  debit  card  with,  inter  alia,  facilities  of  one-time  documentation,  built-in  cost escalation in the limit, any number of drawals within the limit, etc.

With a view to ensure availability of agriculture credit at a reduced interest rate of 7% p.a. to the farmers an interest subvention scheme for short term crop loans upto Rs.3.00 lakh is implemented.  The scheme provides interest subvention of 2% per annum to Banks on use of  their  own  resources.    Besides,  additional  3%  incentive  is  given  to  the  farmers  for  prompt repayment of the loan, thereby reducing the effective rate of interest to 4%.

(e): The scientist of the Institutes and Centres of All India Coordinated Research Projects (AICRPs) are encouraged for development of the affordable technologies to  the farmers on individual/custom hiring basis.

|                | Annexure-                                 | Annexure-                                 | Annexure-   | Annexure-                  | Annexure-                  | Annexure-   | Annexure-                              | Annexure-      | Annexure-   | Annexure-   | Annexure-   | Annexure-   | Annexure-   | Annexure-   |
|----------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|-------------|----------------------------------------|----------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|                | Nos. Of Custom Hiring Centres Established | Nos. Of Custom Hiring Centres Established |             | Nos. Of Hiring Established | Nos. Of Hiring Established |             | Custom Centres Nos. Hiring Established | Custom Centres |             |             |             |             |             |             |
|                | 0                                         |                                           |             | 2017-18                    | 2018-19                    |             | Grand as on                            |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Andhra Pradesh |                                           | 20                                        |             | 875                        | 750                        |             | 1813                                   |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Arunachal      | 0                                         | 0                                         |             | 6                          | 1                          |             | 7                                      |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Assam          | 86                                        | 0                                         |             | 50                         | 0                          |             | 148                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Bihar          | 126                                       | 0                                         |             | 0                          | 0                          |             | 397                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Chhattisgarh   | 25                                        | 0                                         |             | 137                        | 523                        |             | 1037                                   |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Gujarat        | 17                                        | 8                                         |             | 0                          | 0                          |             | 25                                     |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Haryana        | 30                                        | 0                                         |             | 0                          | 752                        |             | 1007                                   |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| HP             | 3                                         | 1                                         |             | 3                          | 5                          |             | 39                                     |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| J&K            | 0                                         | 0                                         |             | 4                          | 17                         |             | 237                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Jharkhand      | 53                                        | 45                                        |             | 34                         | 100                        |             | 282                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Karnataka      | 2                                         | 0                                         |             | 35                         | 100                        |             | 178                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Kerala         | 29                                        | 0                                         |             | 72                         | 129                        |             | 366                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| MP             | 18                                        | 22                                        |             | 100                        | 85                         |             | 335                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Maharashtra    | 67                                        | 38                                        |             | 63                         | 97                         |             | 417                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Manipur        | 10                                        | 0                                         |             | 5                          | 315                        |             | 330                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Meghalaya      | 0                                         | 0                                         |             | 0                          | 0                          |             | 0                                      |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Mizoram        | 4                                         | 10                                        |             | 30                         | 27                         |             | 166                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Nagaland       | 13                                        | 4                                         |             | 30                         | 42                         |             | 141                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Orissa         | 31                                        | 0                                         |             | 400                        | 450                        |             | 1611                                   |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Punjab         | 34                                        | 0                                         |             | 166                        | 0                          |             | 1209                                   |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Rajasthan      | 65                                        | 0                                         |             | 238                        | 0                          |             | 303                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Sikkim         | 1                                         | 0                                         |             | 3                          | 0                          |             | 14                                     |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Tamil Nadu     | 85                                        | 99                                        |             | 540                        | 1120                       | Telengana   | 49                                     |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
|                | 9                                         |                                           |             |                            |                            |             | 2529                                   |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
|                |                                           | 0                                         |             | 30                         | 0                          |             |                                        |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| Tripura        | 4                                         | 4                                         |             | 83                         | 100                        |             | 291                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
|                | 13                                        | 13                                        | Uttarakhand | 369                        | 60                         |             | 881                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| West Bengal    | 28                                        | 60                                        |             | 118                        | 79                         |             | 350                                    |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |
| TOTAL          | 1113                                      | 499                                       |             | 3752                       | 5189                       |             | 16201                                  |                |             |             |             |             |             |             |

No of Custom Hiring Centers (CHC) Established under a new Central Sector Scheme on 'Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization for In-Situ Management of Crop Residue in the States of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and NCT of Delhi' (CRM)

| State   | 2018-19         | 2019-20         |
|---------|-----------------|-----------------|
|         | CHC Established | CHC Established |
| Punjab  | 4466            | 5505            |
| Haryana | 1194            | 1300            |
| UP      | 2300            | 1817            |
| Total   | 7960            | 8622            |

## Annexure-III Technologies/machines  developed  by  ICAR  in  the  recent  past  to  reduce  the  manual

## labour of the farmers

-  Aloevera whole gel extraction equipment
-  Animal lifting device
-  Automated packing line for spherical horticultural produce
-  Binder less briquetts from crop residues
-  Biochar production technology
-  CIAE Banana Chipper Shredder
-  CIAE Millet mill
-  CIAE-SPAD meter
-  Colour sensor based herbicide applicator
-  Coloured Shade Nets a boon for Vegetable Production
-  Controller based five-row seed-cum-fertilizer drill
-  Drip irrigation in rice and wheat cultivation
-  Herbicide strip applicator-cum-planter
-  High clearance multipurpose vehicle
-  Manual stalk uprooter
-  Mechanical intra and inter row weeder for wide spaced field crops
-  Mechanization Packages for Garcinia juice
-  Mechanization Packages for Rope making from Outer sheath of Banana pseudo stem
-  Mechanization Packages minimal processing of banana central core
-  Mechanized package of sugarcane bud chip technology
-  Millet flaking machine
-  Mulcher-cum-bed-planter
-  Multi-millet thresher
-  On-the-go variable rate urea application system
-  Pilot scale modified atmosphere storage (MAS) system
-  Pilot unit for production of Minimally Processed fresh cut vegetables
-  PLA based biodegradable films
-  Plug type automatic vegetable transplanter
-  Portable paddy straw briquetting machine
-  Real time uniform spraying system for field crops
-  Ripening chamber
-  Semi-automatic vegetable transplanters
-  Site-specific fertilizer applicator for wide spaced crops
-  Small seed planters
-  Solar PV based refrigeration system
-  Subsurface drip lateral laying machine
-  Sugarcane rind removing equipment for juice making
-  Tractor drawn plastic mulch laying machine
-  Tractor Drawn Rotary Assisted Broad bed Former-cum-Seeder
-  Tractor mounted ginger planter
-  Tractor operated cassava stake cutter planter
-  Tractor operated vegetable transplanters
-  Two stage seed-cum-fertilizer drill
-  Air pressure brake system for tractor-trailer
-  Animal drawn caepht multipurpose tool frame
-  Animal drawn improved wedge plough
-  Animal drawn inclined plate planter for  hybrid rice
-  Animal drawn maize planter
-  Animal drawn plastic mulch laying machine
-  Animal drawn rotary mode gear operated grinder for bay leaf

-  Animal drawn seed drill for intercropping
-  Animal drawn single row multi crop zero- till seed drill for sowing mustard and buck wheat
-  Axial flow multi-crop thresher for hilly region
-  Brush cutter with fruit holding attachment for pineapple harvesting
-  Bullock carts having break system
-  Bullock drawn air mist canopy sprayer
-  Bullock drawn cotton planter cum fertilizer drill
-  Bullock drawn cotton planter fertilizer drill
-  Bullock drawn equipment for conservation tillage and residue management
-  Bullock drawn multi-purpose tool
-  Bullock drawn ridge type drum seeder
-  Bullock drawn solar powered high clearance sprayer
-  Bullock drawn sorghum harvester
-  Bullock drawn turmeric and ginger digger for raised bed planting
-  Bullock drawn vegetable transplanter
-  Bullock drawnearthing-up cum interculturing implement for sugarcane and turmeric crop
-  Bullock-drawn fertilizer applicator-cum-ridger
-  Cashewnutdesheller
-  Check basin former
-  Controlled power tiller turning mechanism
-  Economical animal housing structure using locally available raw materials for stress control on animals leading to improved animal health
-  Efficient hydraulic braking system for two wheel tractor trailer
-  Feed-in type ragi thresher cum pearler
-  Fertilizer band placement cum earthing up machine
-  Fertilizer dibbler for ratoon sugarcane
-  Garlic planter
-  Gps based variable rate granular fertilizer applicator
-  Harvester cum collector for cluster onion
-  Improved basket holder to carry headload in sherpa mode in hills
-  Improved ladder for fruit harvesting
-  Improved large-cardamom harvesting knife
-  Improved yoke/harness
-  Indigenous cabin for tractors
-  Knapsack type pneumatic cotton picker
-  Light weight powered paddy thresher cum cleaner
-  Loose straw chopper for paddy straw management for wheat sowing
-  Low cost animal drawn multi-crop seed drill
-  Low cost bamboo ladder for apple harvesting
-  Low cost gravity based ropeway
-  Low heat grinding machine for rotary transmission system
-  Low pressure air driven power generation through rotary mode
-  Manually operated gladiolus planter
-  Manually operated jamun (black berry) harvesting device
-  Mechanical feeding system of axial flow paddy thresher
-  Mechanized unit operations of root crops (potato and ginger) cultivation on terraces for animal based farming system
-  Modified muffler to reduce noise level for operators
-  Multi-crop planter for seed spices
-  Multi-crop thresher for seed spices
-  Onion transplanter

-  Package of animal drawn implements for he-buffaloes of chhattisgarh
-  Package of animal drawn implements for turmeric and ginger crops
-  Package of bullock drawn equipment for groundnut and cotton crop
-  Package of bullock drawn implements for groundnut and green gram crops
-  Package of improved animal drawn implements for paddy cultivation
-  Package of suitable implements for mustard cultivation
-  Package of tools and equipment for paddy cultivation
-  Paddy transplanter as an attachment to four wheel drive tractor
-  Paddy weeder
-  Paddy weeder as an attachment to existing six-row self-propelled paddy transplanter
-  Pedal cum power operated arecanut dehusker
-  Planter cum herbicide applicator for direct sowing of paddy
-  Pneumatic nursery seeder
-  Pneumatic wheel steel bullock cart
-  Pomegranate spraying system based on ultrasonic sensors
-  Power operated garlic stem and root cutter
-  Power operated onion de-topper cum grader
-  Power operated sugarcane sett cutter
-  Power tiller operated inclined plate planter
-  Power tiller operated multi-purpose seed drill cum planter
-  Power tiller operated potato and ginger planter
-  Red gram protray seeder
-  Self-propelled 8 row pre-germinated rice seeder,  three row rice transplanter
-  Self-propelled fodder harvester
-  Self-propelled groundnut combine
-  Small seed planter
-  Small tractor drawn crop residue disintegrator
-  Small tractor drawn inter row cultivator
-  Spraying safety kit
-  Stem applicator as an attachment to power weeder for cotton crop
-  Sugarcane transplanter
-  Suitable isolators to reduce vibration in vertical conveyor reaper
-  Tapioca detopper
-  Tractor drawn planter cum boom sprayer for sowing and herbicide application in groundnut
-  Tractor drawn turmeric digger
-  Tractor front mounted hydraulically operated 3-row sorghum harvester
-  Tractor mounted fodder harvester
-  Tractor mounted root crop harvester-cum-elevator
-  Tractor operated cassava digger harvester
-  Tractor operated garlic harvester
-  Tractor operated mulch laying machine
-  Tractor operated multi-crop planter for sowing on beds
-  Tractor operated potato cum sugarcane bud planter
-  Tractor operated sorghum and pearl millet earhead separator
-  Tractor operated sugarcane harvester
-  Tractor operated system for controlled levelling puddling
-  Tranplanter for ssi  sugarcane seedlings
-  Turmeric polisher
-  Turmeric rhizome planter
-  Variable rate vertical boom type air-assisted sprayer
-  Wheat straw combine

Year wise trainees trained by FMTTIs

Annexure-IV

| Year                |   CFMTTI, Budni (,M.P.) |   NRFMTTI, Hisar,Haryana |   SRFMTTI, Anantapur(A.P.) |   NERFMTTI, Biswanth Charali, Assam |   Total |
|---------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------------------|---------|
| 2014-15             |                    2226 |                     1917 |                       1707 |                                 823 |    6673 |
| 2015-16             |                    2089 |                     2183 |                       2414 |                                 934 |    7620 |
| 2016-17             |                    3052 |                     2725 |                       2619 |                                1027 |    9423 |
| 2017-18             |                    3004 |                     2933 |                       2736 |                                1016 |    9689 |
| 2018-19             |                    3042 |                     3105 |                       3105 |                                1004 |   10256 |
| 2019-20 (till date) |                    1914 |                     1765 |                       2064 |                                 708 |    6451 |
| Grand Total         |                   15327 |                    14628 |                      14645 |                                5512 |   50112 |

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