Lok Sabha Question No. 3566 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-10
Subject: Schemes for BTC Farmers
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Naba (Hira) Kumar Sarania

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3566

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 10 TH  AUGUST, 2021

## SCHEMES FOR BTC FARMERS

†3566. SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ िषएवंकसानकयाणमंी be pleased to State?

- (a) the details of various schemes run by the Ministry;
- (b) the schemes being operated for Assam and BTC farmers along with the details of funds allocated for schemes during the last three years;
- (c) the number of beneficiary farmers of BTC and Assam under farmer schemes, district-wise;
- (d) whether farmers face difficulties in availing bank loan along with the details of Government schemes formulated in this regard; and
- (e)  the  details  of  arrangement  made  by  the  Government  to  provide  training  in  new technology to the farmers of the country, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFAR E

## कृ षएवंकसानकयाणमंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) List of some of the important beneficiary oriented schemes implemented by the Department is given in Annexure-I
- (b) to (c) Beneficiaries of schemes are selected by the States and therefore, such details are available with them. However, funds allocated to Assam including for BTC farmers during last 3 years are given in Annexure-II.
- (d) In order to ensure timely and affordable credit facilities for farmers, Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare is implementing the Interest Subvention Scheme

(ISS) and Kisan Credit Card Saturation Drive. ISS is available to farmers availing short term crop loans up to Rs.3.00 lakh at an interest rate of 7% per annum for one year.

Additional 3% subvention is also given to the farmers for prompt and timely repayment of loans; thus reducing the effective rate of interest to 4% per annum. The benefits of ISS have also been extended to farmers in allied activities like Animal Husbandry and Fisheries.

Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in collaboration with Department  of  Financial  Services  and  Banks  is  running  KCC  saturation  drive  since February, 2020 giving special focus on PM KISAN beneficiaries. The target of the drive is to cover 2.5 crore farmers under KCC. Government has taken the following steps to make the credit system easy for the farmers.

- (i) All the charges including processing fee, inspection, ledger folio charges, service charges for loans upto Rs.3.00 lakh were waived off.
- (ii) Collateral fee loan limit for short term agri-credit has  been raised from Rs.1.00 lakh to Rs.1.60 lakh by RBl.
- (iii) State  Governments  have  been  advised  to  hold  bank-wise  and  village wise  camps  to  collect  KCC  application  forms  from  eligible  farmers  and  the applications collected therein to be submitted to the Bank's branch.
- (iv) KCC  is  to  be  issued  within  14  days  from  the  receipt  of  completed application. The progress is to be monitored by State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC).
- (v) The  KCC  has  been  extended  to  the  farmers  doing  allied  activities including Animal Husbandry, dairying and fisheries.  Till 30.07.2021, 2.31 crore farmers have  been issued KCC with sanction loan limit of Rs. 2,36,450 crore.
- (e) Presently  there  are  four  numbers  of  Farm  Machinery  Training  &  Testing Institute(FMTTIs)  at  ,Budni  (Madhya  Pradesh),  Hisar  (Haryana),  Anantapur  (Andhra Pradesh) and Biswanath Chariali (Assam) imparting training to various categories of trainees ie farmers, women, youths. etc in the field of farm mechanization,

Moreover, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme  'Support to State Extension Programmes  for  Extension  Reforms',  popularly  known  as  ATMA  Scheme  was launched in May, 2005. Presently ATMA is being implemented as a component of SubMission on Agricultural Extension (SMAE) in 691 Districts of 28 states and 5 UTs.The aim  of  the  scheme  is  to  revitalize  and  augment    State's  extension  system  and  to provide  a  farmer  friendly  extension  services  delivery  to  farmers  for  their  capacity building in modern agricultural technologies and good agricultural practices in different thematic areas through various extension activities like Farmers Training, Demonstrations,  Exposure  Visits,  Kisan  Melas,  mobilization  of  Farmers  Interest Groups  (FIGs)  and  setting  up  of  Farm  Schools.  Under  the  scheme  grants-in-aid  is released  to  State/UT  Governments.  Details  of  trainees  state  wise  for  FMTTIs  and ATMA are attached as Annexure-III.

## ANEXURE-I

|   Central Sector/ Centrally Sponsored Schemes | Central Sector/ Centrally Sponsored Schemes                    |
|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                             1 | Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna                                |
|                                             2 | Interest Subsidy for Short Term Credit to Farmers              |
|                                             3 | Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA)      |
|                                             4 | Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)                   |
|                                             5 | Organic Value Chain Development for NE Region                  |
|                                             6 | Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna-Per Drop More Crop (PMKSY) |
|                                             7 | Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojna                                    |
|                                             8 | National Food Security Mission                                 |
|                                             9 | National Project on Management of Soil Health & Fertility      |
|                                            10 | Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna                                |
|                                            11 | National Project on Agro-Forestry                              |
|                                            12 | Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture             |
|                                            13 | Sub-Mission Seeds & Planting Material                          |
|                                            14 | Sub-Mission on Agriculture Extension                           |
|                                            15 | Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization                      |
|                                            16 | Integrated scheme on Agricultural Marketing                    |
|                                            17 | National Bamboo Mission                                        |

## ANNEXURE-II

## Details of State-wise funds allocated and released for Schemes implemented by DA&FW in Assam

(Rs. Crore)

| S. No.   | Schemes                                                                     | 2018-19    | 2019-20    | 2020-21    |
|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|------------|------------|
|          |                                                                             | Allocation | Allocation | Allocation |
| 1        | PM-KISAN*                                                                   | 189.11     | 1427.46    | 655.60     |
| 2        | National Food Security Mission                                              | 162.21     | 227.64     | 164.48     |
| 3        | Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna-Per Drop More Crop (PMKSY)              | 90.00      | 70.00      | 80.00      |
| 4        | National Food Security Mission-Oilseeds and Oil Palm                        | 33.80      | 11.19      | 18.55      |
| 5        | Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization                                   | 30.00      | 15.41      | 10.00      |
| 6        | Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna                                             | 0.00       | 0.00       | 0.00       |
| 7        | Soil Health management                                                      | 2.62       | 0.00       | 14.21      |
| 8        | Soil Health Card                                                            | 7.49       | 6.11       | 10.00      |
| 9        | Rained Area Development                                                     | 2.00       | 1.00       | 1.00       |
| 10       | Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture                          | 84.00      | 84.00      | 60.00      |
| 11       | Sub-Mission on Agriculture Extension (ATMA)                                 | 12.22      | 12.14      | 20.03      |
| 12       | Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojna                                                 | 202.29     | 219.93     | 188.49     |
| 13       | Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER) | 17.63      | 27.46      | 4.35       |

## State-wise Trainees Trained at FMTTIs

|   S. No. | State             |   2020-21 |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|
|        1 | Arunachal Pradesh |        93 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh    |      2425 |
|        3 | Assam             |      1062 |
|        4 | A &NIslands       |         0 |
|        5 | Bihar             |        93 |
|        6 | Chandigarh        |         0 |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh      |        24 |
|        8 | Delhi             |         1 |
|        9 | Gujarat           |         0 |
|       10 | Goa               |         0 |
|       11 | Haryana           |      3111 |
|       12 | Himachal Pradesh  |         0 |
|       13 | Jammu &Kashmir    |        52 |
|       14 | Jharkhand         |        39 |
|       15 | Kerala            |       108 |
|       16 | Karnataka         |        96 |
|       17 | Lakshadeep        |         0 |
|       18 | Madhya Pradesh    |      2926 |
|       19 | Maharashtra       |        29 |
|       20 | Manipur           |         0 |
|       21 | Mizoram           |         0 |
|       22 | Meghalaya         |         0 |
|       23 | Nagaland          |        63 |
|       24 | Orissa            |         0 |
|       25 | Punjab            |         0 |

## Annexure-III

| 26   | Pondicherry   |     0 |
|------|---------------|-------|
| 27   | Rajasthan     |   406 |
| 28   | Sikkim        |     0 |
| 29   | Tripura       |     0 |
| 30   | Tamil Nadu    |   154 |
| 31   | Telangana     |   255 |
| 32   | Uttar Pradesh |   164 |
| 33   | Uttarakhand   |     0 |
| 34   | West Bengal   |     2 |
|      | Total         | 11103 |

State&UT-wise details of training programmes organized under ATMA during last 3 years

| S. N o.   | Name of State/UT   | 2018-19                   | 2018-19              | 2019-20                   | 2019-20              | 2020-21                   | 2020-21              | Total                     | Total                |
|-----------|--------------------|---------------------------|----------------------|---------------------------|----------------------|---------------------------|----------------------|---------------------------|----------------------|
| S. N o.   | Name of State/UT   | No. of Traini ng Cours es | No. of participa nts | No. of Traini ng Cours es | No. of participa nts | No. of Traini ng Cours es | No. of participa nts | No. of Traini ng Cours es | No. of participa nts |
| 1         | Andaman & Nicobar  | 54                        | 1614                 | 68                        | 2054                 | 70                        | 2090                 | 192                       | 5758                 |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh     | 5430                      | 162895               | 2814                      | 84438                | 11281                     | 338445               | 1952 5                    | 585778               |
| 3         | Arunacha l Pradesh | 1660                      | 49800                | 668                       | 20050                | 533                       | 16000                | 2861                      | 85850                |
| 4         | Assam              | 262                       | 7862                 | 179                       | 5379                 | 84                        | 2533                 | 525                       | 15774                |
| 5         | Bihar              | 3415                      | 102463               | 4388                      | 131649               | 2450                      | 73499                | 1025 3                    | 307611               |
| 6         | Chhattisg arh      | 1795                      | 53864                | 1369                      | 41066                | 1178                      | 35353                | 4342                      | 130283               |
| 7         | Delhi              | 0                         | 0                    | 0                         | 0                    | 7                         | 200                  | 7                         | 200                  |
| 8         | Goa                | 291                       | 8727                 | 212                       | 6363                 | 155                       | 4656                 | 658                       | 19746                |
| 9         | Gujarat            | 3747                      | 112412               | 6330                      | 189895               | 4800                      | 144005               | 1487 7                    | 446312               |
| 10        | Haryana            | 398                       | 11950                | 428                       | 12840                | 417                       | 12500                | 1243                      | 37290                |
| 11        | Himachal Pradesh   | 709                       | 21275                | 198                       | 5936                 | 157                       | 4713                 | 1064                      | 31924                |
| 12        | Jammu and Kashmir  | 1254                      | 37610                | 264                       | 7916                 | 0                         | 0                    | 1518                      | 45526                |
| 13        | Jharkhan d         | 515                       | 15461                | 341                       | 10220                | 274                       | 8225                 | 1130                      | 33906                |
| 14        | Karnatak a         | 2043                      | 61293                | 1105                      | 33142                | 2697                      | 80918                | 5845                      | 175353               |
| 15        | Kerala             | 1091                      | 32741                | 833                       | 24993                | 649                       | 19475                | 2573                      | 77209                |
| 16        | Ladakh             | 0                         | 0                    | 0                         | 0                    | 0                         | 0                    | 0                         | 0                    |
| 17        | Madhya Pradesh     | 2205                      | 66137                | 611                       | 18334                | 258                       | 7739                 | 3074                      | 92210                |
| 18        | Maharas htra       | 4919                      | 147563               | 3667                      | 110006               | 1706                      | 51194                | 1029 2                    | 308763               |
| 19        | Manipur            | 133                       | 3975                 | 30                        | 900                  | 166                       | 4996                 | 329                       | 9871                 |
| 20        | Meghalay a         | 256                       | 7676                 | 134                       | 4030                 | 161                       | 4823                 | 551                       | 16529                |
| 21        | Mizoram            | 289                       | 8660                 | 73                        | 2200                 | 7                         | 220                  | 369                       | 11080                |
| 22        | Nagaland           | 689                       | 20665                | 732                       | 21960                | 512                       | 15355                | 1933                      | 57980                |
| 23        | Odisha             | 1632                      | 48970                | 847                       | 25400                | 1024                      | 30720                | 3503                      | 105090               |

| 24   | Puducher ry   | 33     |    1010 | 60     |    1797 | 98     |    2955 | 191     |    5762 |
|------|---------------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|---------|---------|---------|
| 25   | Punjab        | 686    |   20581 | 383    |   11478 | 664    |   19931 | 1733    |   51990 |
| 26   | Rajastha n    | 1645   |   49338 | 1009   |   30281 | 996    |   29886 | 3650    |  109505 |
| 27   | Sikkim        | 34     |    1025 | 33     |    1000 | 45     |    1360 | 112     |    3385 |
| 28   | Tamilnad u    | 12695  |  380842 | 3209   |   96259 | 7961   |  238841 | 2386 5  |  715942 |
| 29   | Telangan a    | 1035   |   31048 | 1706   |   51194 | 579    |   17371 | 3320    |   99613 |
| 30   | Tripura       | 121    |    3640 | 43     |    1278 | 0      |       0 | 164     |    4918 |
| 31   | Uttar Pradesh | 4805   |  144150 | 5023   |  150678 | 4092   |  122772 | 1392 0  |  417600 |
| 32   | Uttarakh and  | 516    |   15484 | 645    |   19339 | 904    |   27136 | 2065    |   61959 |
| 33   | West Bengal   | 9590   |  287694 | 6833   |  205000 | 2168   |   65050 | 1859 1  |  557744 |
|      | Total         | 6394 7 | 1918425 | 4423 5 | 1327075 | 4609 3 | 1382961 | 1542 75 | 4628461 |

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