Lok Sabha Question No. 188 (STARRED), answered on 2023-03-14
Subject: Chemical Free Agriculture
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 188

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 14 TH     MARCH, 2023

## CHEMICAL FREE AGRICULTURE

- *188 . SHRIMATI POONAMBEN MAADAM: Will the Minister  of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government has taken/ is taking any step to promote 'Jaivik Kheti' (Chemical free agriculture) in the country; (b) if so, the details thereof and the extent of area which has been covered so far; (c) whether the Government has developed a web portal for the direct sale of organic produce by farmers to the consumers to help them for better price realization: (d) if so, the details regarding the number of farmers who have been registered so far, State/UT-wise especially from/in Gujarat; and (e) the steps taken by the Government for the capacity building of farmers?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ िष एवं कसान कयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR) (a) to (e):      A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  IN  RESPECT  OF  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO. 188 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 14.03.2023 REGARDING 'CHEMICAL FREE AGRICULTURE'.

(a) & (b): Government has been promoting Jaivik Kheti (Chemical free Agriculture) through different initiatives. Organic farming is being implemented in the country since 2015-16 through the schemes of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) and Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER). Both the schemes stress on end to end support to farmers engaged in organic farming i.e. from production to processing, certification and marketing and post harvest management support including processing. PKVY is being implemented  in  all the States other-than North Eastern  States, across  the country. MOVCDNER scheme is implemented exclusively in the NE States.

Under PKVY, farmers of various states of the country are provided financial assistance of Rs 50000/ha for 3 years out of which, Rs 31000/ ha / 3 years is provided directly to farmers through DBT for on-farm and off-farm organic inputs. Financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh/ cluster of 1000 ha for 3 years is provided for value addition and infrastructure creation.

Under MOVCDNER, an assistance of Rs. 46,575/ha for 3years is provided for creation of FPO, support to farmers for organic inputs, quality seeds/ planting material and training, hand holding  and  certification.  Financial  assistance  @  Rs  32500/  ha  for  3  years  is  provided  to farmers for on- farm /off -farm organic inputs under the scheme.

In addition, Government is also promoting natural farming since 2019-2020 through a sub-scheme namely Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP) under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). The scheme mainly emphasizes on exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs and promotes on-farm biomass recycling with major stress on biomass mulching, use of cow dung-urine formulations and other plant based preparations. So far 4.09 lakh ha area has been brought under BPKP. Under BPKP, natural farming is being promoted in cluster of 500 ha and Rs. 12200.00 is provided per ha for three years, in which Rs. 2000 is provided as incentives to farmers through DBT. Government also promoted chemical free farming under Namami Gange Programme under PKVY since 2017-18 along the bank of river Ganga and 1.23 lakh ha area has been covered.

In order to involve more farmers and enhance the reach of natural farming on larger scale, Government has formulated Natural Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) by up-scaling the Bharatiya  Prakritik  Krishi  Paddhati  (BPKP)  to  promote  natural  farming  across  the  country. NMNF will cover 7.5 lakh ha area by developing 15,000 clusters in next 4 years with total budget outlay of Rs. 1584 crore (GoI Share). With NMNF Government proposes to touch 1 crore farmers along the Ganga belt and in other rainfed parts of the country. For making easy access  to  bio-  resources  like  Jeevamrit,  Ghana  Jeevamrit,  neemastra  etc.,  Government intends to set up 15,000 Bhartiya Prakritik Kheti Bio-inputs Resources Centres (BRCs).

The details of state-wise area covered under organic farming under National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) and Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)- India programme certification upto 2021-22 is given in Annexure-I.

Under Soil Health Card (SHC)/ Soil Health Management (SHM) schemes Government is promoting  Integrated  Nutrient  Management  (INM)  for  improving  soil  health,  fertility  and productivity. ICAR has developed curricula for Under Graduate (UG) and Post Graduate (PG) courses on natural farming.

The Government of India is also promoting bio pesticides. Simplified  guidelines  have been formulated for the registration of bio pesticides. Provisional registration is being granted under Section 9(3B) of the Insecticides Act, 1968 along with the permission for commercialization during the provisional registration period of two years. Presently, Central Integrated Pest Management Centres (CIPMCs) successfully produces many biopesticides such as Metarhizium , Beauveri a, Pseudomonas , Bacillus , Trichoderma spp., Isaria fumosorosea ;  biocontrol agents such as Trichogramma spp., Chilonus blackburni ,  Reduviid bug, Rhynocoris  marginatus , Chrysoperla zastrowi sillemi , Cryptolaemus  montrouzeri , Goniozus  nephantidis , Sycanus  collaris , Psuedomallada  astur and  release  in  field  for  the management of various pests and pathogens.

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) division of Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage, through its 36 Central IPM Centers (CIPMCs) across 28 states and 2 UTs conducts various training programmers such as Farmers Field Schools, two/five days  HRD programmers,  Kisan  Goshthis,  IPM  Exhibitions  and  Seed  Treatment  Campaigns  where awareness is created amongst farmers, NGOs/Pesticide dealers/State agriculture functionaries on use of bio pesticides, bio control agents and botanical formulations as an alternative to chemical pesticides for pest management.

GOBAR  (Galvanizing  Organic  Bio-Agro  Resources)  -  DHAN  scheme  of  Ministry  of Drinking Water & Sanitation aims to convert cattle dung and solid waste into compost, biogas and bio- CNG and provide technical assistance to turn cattle and organic waste into wealth. Enriched fermented liquid and solid organic manure which are used in organic farming as source of plant nutrient are the bi-product / off-take of Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) Plant of GOBAR (Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources) - DHAN scheme of Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer's welfare have specified the quality standards of these Fermented Liquid Organic Manure and Fermented Solid Organic Manure in Fertilizer Control Order, 1985 for their use and also established 29 notified laboratories for their regular quality testing.

(c) & (d): Government has developed web portal- www.Jaivikkheti.in/ as an online marketing platform for direct sale of organic produce by farmers to the consumers to help them for better price  realization.  Currently  a  total  of  13.58  lakh  ha  area  has  been  brought  under  organic farming under PKVY & MOVCDNER scheme involving 18.08 lakh farmers, out of which 6.09 lakh farmers have registered themselves on Jaivik kheti portal for online marketing of their organic produce directly to the consumers to get better price realization for their produce. The state/UT - wise (including Gujarat) details of number of farmers registered on the portal is given in Annexure- II .

(e): Under PKVY there is provision of assistance @ Rs 7500/ha for 3 years for training and capacity building of farmers on organic production whereas, under MOVCDNER Rs 10000/ha for 3 years is provided for training and hand holding of farmers for capacity building on organic production.

National  Center  for  Organic  and  Natural  Farming  (NCONF),  a  sub-ordinate  office  of DA&FW, has been organizing various training and capacity building programme namely 30 Day's  Certificate  Course,  Field  Demonstration  and  Training,  Extension  Officer  training Programme and 7 days online/offline training course on various aspects of organic farming for farmers  and  other  stake  holders.  The  details  of  training  imparted  and  farmers/beneficiary trained by NCONF since 2016-17 is given in at Annexure - III.

Annexure-I State-wise total land under organic farming / natural farming under NPOP and PGS-

India programme certification upto 2021-22.

Area (in ha)

| S. No.            | State                   | Under NPOP Certification   |   Under PGS certification |
|-------------------|-------------------------|----------------------------|---------------------------|
| 1.                | Andhra Pradesh          | 47922.42                   |          206000           |
| 2.                | Arunachal Pradesh       | 12636.64                   |             380           |
| 3.                | Assam                   | 18102.94                   |            4400           |
| 4.                | Bihar                   | 30941.01                   |           24600           |
| 5.                | Chhattisgarh            | 18856.46                   |          109000           |
| 6.                | Goa                     | 12669.88                   |           10080           |
| 7.                | Gujarat                 | 154950.14                  |            2000           |
| 8.                | Haryana                 | 3198.95                    |             400           |
| 9.                | Himachal Pradesh        | 11160.55                   |           17700           |
| 10.               | Jammu & Kashmir         | 30675.58                   |             560           |
| 11.               | Jharkhand               | 58870.14                   |           23940           |
| 12.               | Karnataka               | 96188.88                   |           20900           |
| 13.               | Kerala                  | 43676.54                   |           96380           |
| 14.               | Ladakh                  | 7280.37                    |           10000           |
| 15.               | Lakshadweep             | 895.51                     |            2700           |
| 16.               | Madhya Pradesh          | 1504950.14                 |          175560           |
| 17.               | Maharashtra             | 1133570.30                 |           32160           |
| 18.               | Manipur                 | 14628.42                   |             600           |
| 19.               | Meghalaya               | 27508.74                   |             900           |
| 20.               | Mizoram                 | 19038.89                   |             680           |
| 21.               | Nagaland                | 14269.27                   |             480           |
| 22.               | Delhi                   | 12.948                     |           10000           |
| 23.               | Odisha                  | 488904.77                  |           44800           |
| 24.               | Pondicherry             | 21.505                     |             160           |
| 25.               | Punjab                  | 7564.60                    |            7000           |
| 26.               | Rajasthan               | 488904.77                  |          123000           |
| 27.               | Sikkim                  | 75475.28                   |            3000           |
| 28.               | Tamil Nadu              | 52305.73                   |            8240           |
| 29.               | Telangana               | 39200.47                   |           13800           |
| 30.               | Tripura                 | 12081.63                   |            1000           |
| 31.               | Uttar Pradesh           | 70946.65                   |           78580           |
| 32.               | Uttarakhand             | 89670.88                   |          140540           |
| 33.               | West Bengal             | 7280.37                    |            2400           |
| 34.               | Daman Diu & Dadar Nagar | -                          |           11100           |
| 35                | Andaman & Nicobar       | -                          |            1360           |
| 36                | Chandigarh              | -                          |            1300           |
| Total Grand total | Total Grand total       | 5912414.74                 |               5.91241e+06 |

Source: NPOP (APEDA) PGS (NCONF)

Annexure- II The state/UT - wise (including Gujarat) details of number of farmers registered on the

## Jaivik Kheti portal:

| Sl. No.   | State/UTs         |   No. of Farmers |
|-----------|-------------------|------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh    |              971 |
| 2.        | Arunachal Pradesh |               77 |
| 3.        | Assam             |             7339 |
| 4.        | Bihar             |            13222 |
| 5.        | Chhattisgarh      |            27780 |
| 6.        | Daman and Diu     |             1131 |
| 7.        | Delhi             |             2882 |
| 8.        | Goa               |            11556 |
| 9.        | Gujarat           |             3885 |
| 10.       | Haryana           |              323 |
| 11.       | Himachal Pradesh  |             1830 |
| 12.       | Jammu and Kashmir |                1 |
| 13.       | Jharkhand         |             9926 |
| 14.       | Karnataka         |            11500 |
| 15.       | Kerala            |            14781 |
| 16.       | Madhya Pradesh    |            47465 |
| 17.       | Maharashtra       |            39281 |
| 18.       | Manipur           |             1180 |
| 19.       | Meghalaya         |             1214 |
| 20.       | Mizoram           |              306 |
| 21.       | Nagaland          |             1130 |
| 22.       | Odisha            |            31299 |
| 23.       | Punjab            |               22 |
| 24.       | Rajasthan         |            40414 |
| 25.       | Tamil Nadu        |             3653 |
| 26.       | Tripura           |              892 |
| 27.       | Talangana         |             4360 |
| 28.       | Uttar Pradesh     |           105896 |
| 29.       | Uttarakhand       |           217795 |
| 30.       | West Bengal       |             7222 |
|           | Total             |           609144 |

Source:

www.Jaivikkheti.in/

## Annexure - III

## Details of various training imparted and no. of farmers/beneficiary trained on organic farming by NCONF since 2016-17

| S. No.           | Quantifiable deliverables/physical outputs                                                                            | No. of Training   | Nos. of farmers/ beneficiaries   |
|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|----------------------------------|
| 1.               | 30 Days Certificate Course on Organic & Natural Farming                                                               | 34                | 1030                             |
| 2.               | 05 Days Refresher Training on QC for State Govt. Lab Analysts & FIs                                                   | 05                | 87                               |
| 3.               | 02 Days Training for Field Functionaries / Ext. Officers                                                              | 138               | 2822                             |
| 4.               | Two Days Training on PGS for State Govt. Extension Officers/RCs/SPs/LRPs etc                                          | 09                | 194                              |
| 5.               | 01 Day Farmers' Training & field demonstration under SAGY                                                             | 996               | 55855                            |
| 6.               | Jaivik Kisan Sammelan                                                                                                 | 12                | 6228                             |
| 7.               | Specific target for Skill development programme                                                                       | 2                 | 40                               |
| 8.               | One Day Stakeholder Consultation on NF                                                                                | 01                | 100                              |
| Online Trainings | Online Trainings                                                                                                      | Online Trainings  | Online Trainings                 |
| 9.               | 07 Days Online training course on Organic farming                                                                     | 22                | 1565                             |
| 10.              | Online Farmers' Training & field demonstration                                                                        | 80                | 4109                             |
| 11.              | Online Training for Extension officers/LRPs/Farmers on PGS                                                            | 30                | 811                              |
| 12.              | Awareness Program on Organic & Natural Farming for College Students                                                   | 02                | 183                              |
| 13.              | Online Awareness Program on Organic & Natural Farming for school, colleges/consumers etc                              | 03                | 179                              |
| 14.              | Online/Offline Trainings organized as Co- Organizers by N/RCOFs in association with other institutes/universities etc | 14                | 1670                             |
| 15.              | Activities/ Campaigns organized under AKAM                                                                            | 68                | 9680                             |
|                  | Total                                                                                                                 | 1416              | 84553                            |

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