Lok Sabha Question No. 2252 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-15
Subject: Achievements under Doubling Farmers Income
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Dharmendra Kumar Kashyap, V. Kalanidhi

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  2252

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 15 TH  MARCH, 2022

## ACHIEVEMENTS UNDER DOUBLING FARMERS INCOME

2252.  SHRI DHARMENDRA KASHYAP: DR. KALANIDHI VEERASWAMY:

Will  the  Minister  of  AGRICULTURE  AND  FARMERS  WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान

कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

(a) the features of the Doubling Farmers Income programme along with the steps being taken to further the achievements under doubling farmers' income, along with the States covered/beneficiaries listed and criteria adopted in this regard; (b) the details of the funds sanctioned, allocated  and utilized under this programme within Tamil Nadu so far; (c) the results yielded so far for doubling farmers' income, hectare-wise and cropwise  along  with  assessments  made  and  demands  reviewed  in  the  last  five  years, State-wise; (d) the future action plan in this regard; (e) the  reason  for  the  budget  allocations  2022-23  for  agriculture  and  allied activities, which still employ the largest bulk of the population, remaining almost flat; (f) the reasons for the lack of mention of the Centre's target of doubling farmers' income by 2022 in the recent Budget speech; and the  methods through  which  the  Government  will fulfill  its  promise  to  double

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (g) farmers' income by 2022?

(a) to (d):  The Committee on Doubling Farmers' Income (DFI) recognizes agriculture as a value led enterprise and has indentified seven major sources of growth viz., (I) Increase in crop productivity; (II) Increase in livestock productivity; (III) Resource use efficiency or savings in the cost of production; (IV) Increase in the cropping intensity; (V) Diversification towards high value crops; (VI) improvement in real prices received by farmers; and (VII) Shift from farm to non-farm occupations.

Agriculture  being  a  State  Subject,  the  State  Governments  take  appropriate measures for development of agriculture in the State. However, Government of India supplements  the efforts of States through appropriate policy  measures  and budgetary  support  and  various  schemes/  programmes.  The  various  schemes/ programmes  of  the  Government  of  India  are  meant  for  the  welfare  of  farmers  by increasing production, remunerative returns and income support to farmers.  A list of interventions/ achievements is at Annexure-I.

The details of the fund  sanctioned,  allocated  and  utilized  for  the  various schemes/interventions in the state of Tamil Naidu is at Annexure-II.

(e)  to  (g):        The  Government  has  adopted  several  developmental  programmes, schemes,  reforms  and  policies  that  focus  on  higher  incomes  for  the  farmers.  All these policies & programmes are being supported by higher budgetary allocations ( from  Rs. 21933.50 crore in 2013-14 to Rs  124000 crore in 2022-23) non-budgetary financial  resources  such  as  creating  Corpus  Funds  like Micro  Irrigation  Fund  etc. There  have  been  several  reforms  to  unleash  the  potential,  e.g.  Formation  and Promotion  of  10,000  FPOs  along  with  necessary  financial  support  under  Atma Nirbhar Package (Agriculture). Under Atma Nirbhar Bharat special attention is being paid for creation of infrastructure for which ' Agri Infrastructure Fund (AIF) has been created with a size of Rs. 100,000  crore. Other  special  initiatives include Supplementary  Income  transfers  under  PM-KISAN; Pradhan  Mantri  Fasal  Bima Yojna    (PMFBY);    Pradhan  Mantri  Krishi  Sinchai  Yojana  (PMKSY);  Increase  in Minimum Support Price (MSPs) for all Kharif & Rabi Crops ensuring a minimum of 50 percent of profit margin on the cost of production, Bee-Keeping; Rashtriya Gokul Mission; Blue Revolution; Interest Subvention Scheme; Kisan Credit Card (KCC) that now offers production loan to even dairy & fishery farmers besides agricultural crops etc. The adoption of Drone technologies in agriculture has a potential to revolutionize the Indian agriculture. In order to make Drone technology affordable to the farmers and other stakeholders of this sector, financial assistance @ 100 % cost of  drone together with the contingent expenditure is extended to ICAR/SAU/ State governments/  State  government  Institutions  under  Sub-Mission  on  Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) for its demonstration on the farmer's fields.

## Achievements:

## (i) Unprecedented enhancement in budget allocation

In the year 2013-14, the Budget allocation for Department of Agriculture was only Rs. 21933.50 crore. This has been increased by more than 5.5 times to Rs. 1,23017.57 crore in 2021-22.

## (ii)

- Record food grains and horticulture production

Food grain production has increased from 265.05 million tonnes in 2013-14 to record 305.43 million tonnes in 2020-21 (Third advance estimate) which is the highest ever food grain production. Horticulture production has increased from 280.99  million  tonnes  in  2014-15  to  320.48  million  tonnes  in  2020-21  (2nd advance Estimate) which is the highest ever for Indian horticulture.

## (iii) Fixing of MSP at one-and-a half times the cost of production -

- Government has increased the MSP for all mandated Kharif, Rabi and other  commercial  crops  with  a  return  of  at  least  50  per  cent  over  all  India weighted average cost of production from 2018-19.
- MSP for Paddy has increased to Rs. 1940 per quintal in 2021-22 from Rs. 1310 per quintal in 2013-14 marking an increase of 48%.
- MSP for Wheat increased from Rs. 1400 per quintal in 2013-14 to Rs. 2015 per quintal in 2021-22.

## (iv) Income support to farmers through PM KISAN

Launch of PM-KISAN in 2019 -an income support scheme providing Rs. 6000 per year in 3 equal instalments. A total of Rs. 1.8 lakh crores have been released so far to more than 11.7 crore farmer families.

## (v) Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

PMFBY was launched in 2016 addressing problems of high premium rates for farmers  and  reduction  in  sum  insured  due  to  capping.  In  past  5  Years  of implementation - 29.29 crore farmer applicants enrolled and over 8.99 crore (Provisional)  farmer  applicants  have  received  claims  of  over  Rs.  103903 crore. During this period nearly Rs. 21448 crore were paid by farmers as their share of premium against which claims of over Rs.103903 crore (Provisional) have paid to them. Thus for every 100 rupees of premium paid by farmers, they have received Rs. 484 as claims.

## (vi) Institutional credit for agriculture sector

-  Increased from Rs.7.3 lakh crore in 2013-14 with a target to reach Rs.

16.5 lakh crore in 2021-22.

-  Benefit of concessional institutional credit through KCC at 4% interest per annum has also now been extended to Animal Husbandry and Fisheries farmers for meeting their short-term working capital needs.
-  A special drive  has been  undertaken since  February 2020 to  provide concessional institutional credit with focus on covering all  PM-KISAN beneficiaries  through  Kisan  Credit  Cards  (KCC).  Till  date,  270.29  lakh  new KCC have been issued with sanctioned amount of Rs.2,88,832 crore.'

## (vii) Providing Soil Health Cards to farmers

Soil  Health  Card  Scheme  was  introduced  in  the  year  2014-15  to  optimize usage of nutrients. Soil health cards have been issued free of cost to nearly 11 crore farmers under a nationwide program.

## (viii) Promotion of organic farming in the country

- Paramparagat  Krishi VikasYojana  (PKVY)  was  initiated in 2015-16  to promote organic farming in the country. Two-year achievement under PKVY scheme-19043 clusters have been formed and an area of 3.81 lakh ha has been  covered  benefitting  9.52  lakh  farmers.  In  addition,  under  Namami Gange Programme 123620 ha area covered and under natural farming 4.09 lakh ha area covered.
- Mission Organic Value Chain Development in North East Region (MOVCDNER) has been launched. 170 Farmer Producer Companies have been formed comprising of 1.55 lakh farmers and covering 1,55,495 ha area.

In addition, to facilitate organic certification at affordable cost and easy to adopt approaches,  a  New  Participatory  Guarantee  System  (PGS)  certification  was launched during 2015. This PGS system is unique in the world and is the largest participatory organic certification programme in the world. Around 11 lakh small and marginal farmers are certified under PGS certification. A Jaivik kheti portal has been initiated to assist the small and marginal famers in selling their organic products  directly  to  consumers.  As  of  now,  around  5.56  lakh  farmers  are registered  on  the  portal.  In  addition,  quick  certification  of  default  organic  areas such  as  islands,  remote,  hilly  areas  have  been  initiated  under  the  Large  Area Certification  programme.  This  will  enable  small  farmers  to  market  certified products  immediately  without  waiting  for  the  normal  certification  period  of  3 years. Around 14445 ha in Car Nicobar Islands of the Andamans is now certified under the programme helping marginal farmers in the area for marketing certified products. Proposal of 5000 ha area has been received from Ladakh under LAC and fund Rs 11.475 lakh has been released. The entire cultivable land of 2700 ha area of Lakshadweep  have  been  certified  organic under Large area certification. Support  for individual farmers  for certification  has  also  been introduced to encourage farmers to take up organic farming.

## (ix) Neem Coating of Urea

Neem Coated Urea has been introduced since 2015-16 to ensure long availability of nutrients in the soil by slow release of nitrogen. It has also helped in curtailing diversion of urea for non- agricultural activities.

## (x) Agri Infrastructure Fund (AIF)

Within a year of the launch of AIF, the scheme mobilized Rs.7700 Crore worth agriculture  infrastructure  in  the  country  for  more  than  7300  projects.   With the support of the scheme, various agriculture infrastructure was created and some  of the infrastructure is at the final stage of completion. This infrastructure  includes  3898  warehouses,  155  assaying  units,  136  primary processing  units, 135  sorting  & grading units, 20  smart &  precision agriculture projects and around 3000 other kind of post-harvest management projects and community farming assets.

## (xi) Promotion of FPOs

-  Scheme for Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs launched with a total budgetary provision of Rs. 6865 Crore in February 2020.
-  So  far,  more  than  4965  FPO  produce  clusters  have  been  allocated  to respective Implementing Agencies (IAs).
-  Cluster Based Business Organizations (CBBOs) have been empanelled by different IAs and already allocated blocks to them.
-  At  national  level,  a  National  Project  Management  Agency  (NPMA)  is engaged for providing overall project guidance, data maintenance through integrated portal and information management and monitoring.
- (xii) A National Bee and Honey Mission (NBHM) has been launched in 2020 as part of the AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. Rs.500 crore for the period 20202021 to 2022-2023 has been allocated for the sector.

## (xiii) Per Drop More Crop component of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY-PDMC)

Per  Drop  More  Crop  component  of  Pradhanmantri  Krishi  Sinchai  Yojana (PMKSY\_PDMC)  aims  to  increase  water  use  efficiency  at  the  farm  level through Micro Irrigation technologies, i.e., drip and sprinkler irrigation systems.  Under the scheme an area of 20.39 lakh hectare has been covered and about 16 lakh farmers were benefited under micro-irrigation during 201920 & 2020 - 21. An amount of Rs. 5262.20 crore has been provided to states as central assistance under PMKSY-PDMC during 2019-20 and 2020-21.  For the year 2021-22, an amount of Rs. 4000.00 crore (B.E.) has been allocated for  implementation  of  the  scheme  and  an  amount  of  Rs.  779.18  crore released to States so far.

## (xiv) Micro Irrigation Fund

A Micro Irrigation Fund of Rs 5000 crore has been placed with NABARD.  In the Budget for 2021-22 the corpus of the fund has been increased to Rs.1000

crores.  Projects  worth Rs 3970.17 crore covering  12.83 lakh  hectares  have been approved.

## (xv) Agricultural Mechanization

Agricultural  mechanization  is  extremely  vital  to  modernize  agriculture  and reduce  drudgery  of  farming  operations.  During  the  period  from  2014-15  to 2021-22  (as  on  31.12.2021)  an  amount  of  Rs. 5130.61 crore  have  been allocated for agricultural mechanization. 13,78,755 numbers of machines and equipments have been provided to farmers on subsidy.   16,007 custom hiring centers,  378  high-tech  hubs  and  16,064  farm  machinery  banks  have  been established.

During  the  period  from  2018-19  to 2021-22  (as  on  31.12.2021),  an amount  of  Rs.  2440.07  crore  have  been  released  to  the  States  of  Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, NCT of Delhi and ICAR for crop residue management. 39,398  Custom Hiring Centers (CHCs) of crop residue management machines have been established in these States and a total of more than 2.00 lakh machines have been supplied to these established CHCs and individual farmers of these four States.

## (xvi) National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) scheme

-  In 18 states and 03 UTs, 1000 markets have already been integrated with the e-NAM Platform.
-  As  on  05.01.2022,  total  volume  of  5.27  crore  MT  &  11.68  crore  numbers (Bamboo, Betel Leaves, Coconut, Lemon & Sweet corn) with collective worth of  approximately Rs. 1.68 lakh crore of trade has been recorded on e-NAM platform. Till date, more than 1.72 crore farmers have been registered on eNAM platform

## (xvii) Promotion of Agri Start up

799  start-ups  in  the  agriculture  and  allied  sectors  have  been  selected  for funding of a sum of Rs. 86.64 crore in instalments and Rs. 37.90 crore have been  released  to  respective  KPs  and  RABIs  for  funding  these  start-ups. These start-ups were trained for two months at various agribusiness incubation centres i.e. Knowledge Partners  (KPs)  &  RKVY-RAFTAAR Agribusiness Incubators (RABIs).

## (xviii) Promoting Use of Drones in Agriculture

-  The  adoption  of  Drone  technologies  in  agriculture  have  a  potential  to revolutionize the Indian agriculture and  ensure  country's food security. Accordingly,  looking  into  the  unique  advantages  of  Drone  technologies  in agriculture, the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has released the

Standard  Operating  Procedures  (SOPs)  for  use  of  drones  in  pesticide  and nutrient  application  in  public  domain  21.12.2021,  which  provide  concise instructions for effective and safe operations of drones.

-  In  order  to  make  this  technology  affordable  to  the  farmers  and  other stakeholders  of  this  sector,  financial  assistance  @  100  %  cost  of  drone together  with  the  contingent  expenditure  is  extended  to  ICAR/SAU/  State governments/ State government Institutions under Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) for its demonstration on the farmer's fields. In order to provide agricultural services through drone application, financial assistance @ 40% of the basic cost of drone and its attachments or Rs.4 lakhs, whichever less is also provided for drone purchase by existing and new Custom Hiring Centers  (CHCs)  under  Cooperative  Society  of  Farmers,  FPOs and  Rural entrepreneurs.  The  agriculture  graduates  establishing  CHCs  are  eligible  to receive financial assistance @ 50% or up to Rs.5 lakhs.

## Annexure-II Details of the fund allocation, released and expenditure under various schemes In crores

| S.NO.   | Schemes                                                        | 2021-22    | 2021-22   | 2021-22     |
|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------|------------|-----------|-------------|
|         | Tamil Nadu                                                     | Allocation | Released  | Expenditure |
| 1       | National Food Security Mission (NFSM)                          | 38.75      | 17.27     | 8.74        |
| 2       | Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY)                             | 197.96     | 92.92     | 54.69       |
| 3       | Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM)               | 71.08      | 22.27     | 0.00        |
| 4       | Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna-Per Drop More Crop (PMKSY) | 500.00     | 116.00    | 82.80       |
| 5       | Oil Seed &Oil Palm(OS&OP)                                      | 18.71      | 6.88      | 0.00        |
| 6       | Rainfed Area Development - Component of NMSA*                  | 30.00      | 15.00     | 0.00        |
| 7       | Sub Mission on Agroforestry(SMAF)                              | 4.00       | 0.00      | 0.00        |
| 8       | Soil Health Card (SHC)                                         | 0.00       | 0.00      | 0.00        |
| 9       | Soil Health Management (SHM)                                   | 2.94       | 0.00      | 0.00        |
| 10      | Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)      | 103.50     | 25.00     | 20.35       |
| 11      | Sub-Mission on Agriculture Extension (ATMA)                    | 55.00      | 27.50     | 30.69       |
| 12      | Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)                        | 0.00       | 0.00      | 0.00        |

*Not Updated

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