Lok Sabha Question No. 1383 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-29
Subject: Relief Measures to Support Mango Farmers
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Dr. C N Manjunath

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1383

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 29 TH  JULY, 2025

## RELIEF MEASURES TO SUPPORT MANGO FARMERS

## 1383. DR. C N MANJUNATH:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण मंũी be pleased to state:

- (a) whether there is any proposal by the Government to set up fruit processing units in the State of Karnataka, especially to support mango growers, who are suffering year after year due to a sudden and sharp fall in mango prices, if so, the details theroef;
- (b) whether the Government is aware that mango farmers are unable to recover even the basic cultivation and transportation costs, leading to severe financial distress;
- (c) whether any special relief measures or compensation have been proposed for mango crop losses, particularly in Ramanagara district, where crop loss has reportedly touched 70 % to 80 % and no compensation has been disbursed so far; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof, and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण राǛ मंũी (SHRI RAMNATH THAKUR)

- (a):  Government does not setup fruit processing units of its own. However, Government is implementing various schemes under which financial assistance is provided for setting up of Food Processing units in the country including in the State of Karnataka. Further, as per the information  received  from  State  government,  multi  horticulture  produce  handling,  storage, processing and preservation units under Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects have been taken  up  in  Channapatna  taluk  of  Bangalore  south  district  and  Hanagal  taluk  of  Haveri district.
- (b) to (d): To provide remunerative price to the farmers, Governments implements Market Intervention Scheme (MIS), a component under PM-AASHA, for procurement of agricultural and horticultural commodities, which are perishable in nature and are not covered under the Price Support Scheme (PSS). The objective of intervention is to protect the growers of these commodities from making distress sale in the event of a bumper crop during the peak arrival period  when the  prices  tend  to fall  below  economic  levels  and  the  cost  of  production. The condition is that there should be at least a 10 percent decrease in the ruling market prices over  the  previous  normal  year. The  scheme  is  implemented  at  the  request  of  a  State/UT government,  which  is  ready  to  bear  50  percent  of  the  loss (25  percent  in  case  of  NorthEastern States), if any, incurred on its implementation.

Government has introduced a new component of Price Differential Payment (PDP)  under  Market  intervention  scheme (MIS) from  2024-25  season  for  direct payment of the price difference between the Market Intervention Price (MIP) and the selling price to the farmers of perishable crops. States/UTs have an option to choose either to do physical procurement of the crop or to make the differential payment between the MIP & Sale Price to the farmers.

Further, from 2024-25 season, Government added another component under Market intervention scheme for reimbursing the Storage and Transportation cost of TOP crops (Tomato, Onion and Potato) to central nodal agencies & state designated agenceis for transporting them from the producing state to consuming states in the interest of the farmers.

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