Lok Sabha Question No. 263 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-04-26
Subject: Rural Storage Facilities
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: RAGHAV LAKHANPAL

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 263

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 26 TH  APRIL, 2016

## RURAL STORAGE FACILITIES

263.     SHRI RAGHAV LAKHANPAL:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ षि एवं ककसान कल्याण मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  post-harvest  losses  of  agricultural  produce  has  been  reduced  or  has increased during the last two years the details thereof, produce and year-wise;
- (b) the  details  of  the  rural  storage  facilities  as  on  date  along  with  the  capacity required and increased during the last two years, State/UT-wise; and
- (c) the  details  of  the  financial  assistance  provided  by  the  Government  to  various States for setting up of rural godowns during the last two years, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  AGRICULTURE  AND  FARMERS WELFARE

कृ षि एवं ककसान कल्याण मंत्राऱय में राज्य मंत्री (SHRI  MOHANBHAI  KUNDARIYA)

- (a): As  per  available  information,  Indian  Council  of  Agricultural  Research    (ICAR)  Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering  and  Technology ( CIPHET ) has conducted two studies on Assessment of Quantitative Harvest and Post-Harvest Losses of Major Crops and Commodities in India and reports published in 2012 and 2015. In the context  of  rural  storage  facilities,  ICAR-CIPHET's  reports  indicate  that  the  percent storage  losses  have  significantly  reduced  in  case  of  wheat  and  paddy  (33%),  maize (42%), bajra (21%), pigeon pea (16.50%) and green gram (11.43%) over a period of five to six years. This might be owing to better storage technologies, facilities and other postharvest practices adopted by different stakeholders. Contrary to this, storage losses have increased  two  fold  in  case  of  oilseeds  particularly  in  soybean  and  sunflower.  Besides, storage losses in chick pea and black gram have also increased. The details of storage losses are at Annexure-I.
- (b): Number  of  godowns  sanctioned  in  the  country  upto  31st  March,  2016  under Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) sub-scheme  of Integrated Scheme  for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) (under erstwhile Grameen Bhandaran Yojana) are 37795 with 619.49 lakh MT storage capacity.  The State/Union Territory (UT) -wise rural storage facilities sanctioned till 31.03.2016 is given in Annexure-II. The increase in sanctioned capacity  during  the  last  two    years  i.e.  during  2014-15  and  2015-16,  is  given  in Annexure -III.
- (c): Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) sub-scheme of Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) is a demand driven scheme. Under the scheme, subsidy of Rs. 759.77 crore has been provided to various categories of promoters for setting up of rural  godowns  in  the  last  two  years.    Details  of  State/Union  Territory  wise  subsidy released during 2014-15 and 2015-16 are at Annexure-III .

## Storage losses of major crops at national level

| Crops/commodities   | Overall storage losses (%), 2005-07*   | Overall storage losses (%), 2013-14**   | Percent increase decrease in losses   |
|---------------------|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| Paddy               | 1.30                                   | 0.86                                    | -33.85                                |
| Wheat               | 1.30                                   | 0.86                                    | -33.85                                |
| Maize               | 1.30                                   | 0.75                                    | -42.31                                |
| Bajra               | 1.00                                   | 0.79                                    | -21.00                                |
| Sorghum             | 1.10                                   | 1.21                                    | +10.00                                |
| Pulses              |                                        |                                         |                                       |
| Pigeon Pea          | 2.00                                   | 1.67                                    | -16.50                                |
| Chick Pea           | 0.90                                   | 1.18                                    | +31.11                                |
| Black Gram          | 1.10                                   | 1.18                                    | +7.27                                 |
| Green Gram          | 1.40                                   | 1.24                                    | -11.43                                |
| Oilseeds            |                                        |                                         |                                       |
| Mustard             | 0.50                                   | 0.22                                    | -56.00                                |
| Cottonseed          | 0.60                                   | 0.54                                    | -10.00                                |
| Soybean             | 0.40                                   | 1                                       | +150.00                               |
| Safflower           | 0.40                                   | 0.44                                    | +10.00                                |
| Sunflower           | 0.60                                   | 1.61                                    | +168.33                               |
| Groundnut           | 1.00                                   | 0.95                                    | -5.00                                 |

*            Report published in  2012
- ** Report published in 2015

Note: (+) indicates increase in losses whereas (-) indicates decrease in losses.

## Annexure-I

## State-wise storage capacity sanctioned under Agriculture Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) Sub-Scheme (storage infrastructure component) As on 31.03.2016

| Sl. No.   | State             |   No. of projects |   Storage Capacity in Metric Tons (MT) |   Subsidy Released (Rs. in Lakh) |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |              1326 |                            5.337e+06   |                         23240.5  |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |                 1 |                          945           |                             6.3  |
| 3         | Assam             |               266 |                       724806           |                          2884.39 |
| 4         | Bihar             |               990 |                       487187           |                          1972.89 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      |               571 |                            1.9251e+06  |                          4992.82 |
| 6         | Goa               |                 1 |                          299           |                             0.89 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |             11346 |                            4.21575e+06 |                         17833.7  |
| 8         | Haryana           |              2250 |                            7.58133e+06 |                         27516.1  |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |                78 |                        24797.6         |                           131.12 |
| 10        | Jammu & Kashmir   |                10 |                        55648           |                           254.83 |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |                23 |                       142316           |                           324.77 |
| 12        | Karnataka         |              4625 |                            3.57028e+06 |                         14748.6  |
| 13        | Kerala            |               209 |                        90506.6         |                           319.95 |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |              3592 |                            9.39905e+06 |                         33409.8  |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |              3303 |                            5.70749e+06 |                         19074.2  |
| 16        | Meghalaya         |                16 |                        21011.8         |                           183.87 |
| 17        | Mizoram           |                 1 |                          302           |                             2.51 |
| 18        | Nagaland          |                 1 |                          813.57        |                             5.94 |
| 19        | Orissa            |               419 |                       781575           |                          2684.8  |
| 20        | Punjab            |              1732 |                            6.68329e+06 |                         19668.2  |
| 21        | Rajasthan         |              1422 |                            2.57601e+06 |                          6633.57 |
| 22        | Tamilnadu         |              1070 |                            1.23621e+06 |                          4169.42 |
| 23        | Uttar Pradesh     |              1110 |                            5.19661e+06 |                         15165.4  |
| 24        | Uttarakhand       |               273 |                       752046           |                          3124.69 |
| 25        | West Bengal       |              2480 |                            1.39453e+06 |                          4157.7  |
| 26        | Tripura           |                 4 |                        25756           |                           276.56 |
| 27        | Telangana         |               676 |                            4.01852e+06 |                         17123.7  |
| 28        | Union Territories |                 0 |                            0           |                             0    |
|           | Total             |             37795 |                            6.19492e+07 |                        219907    |

## State-wise storage capacity sanctioned under AMI Sub-Scheme (storage infrastructure component) During 2014-15 and 2015-16

|         |                   | 2014-15                       | 2014-15                | 2014-15                        | 2015-16          | 2015-16                | 2015-16                        |
|---------|-------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------|
| Sl. No. | State             | No. of project s              | Storage Capacity in MT | Subsidy released (Rs. In Lakh) | No. of project s | Storage Capacity in MT | Subsidy released (Rs. in Lakh) |
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh    | 82                            | 992285                 | 6014.07                        | 101              | 503815.09              | 5257.8550                      |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh | 0                             | 0                      | 0                              | 0                | 0.00                   | 0.0000                         |
| 3       | Assam             | 0                             | 0                      | 0                              | 0                | -0.02                  | 454.6289                       |
| 4       | Bihar             | 14                            | 21571                  | 438.71                         | 0                | 0.39                   | 0.00                           |
| 5       | Chhattisgarh      | 6                             | 16341                  | 179.16                         | 46               | 262312.50              | 0.00                           |
| 6       | Goa               | 0                             | 0                      | 0                              | 0                | 0.00                   | 0.00                           |
| 7       | Gujarat           | 615                           | 362318                 | 2015.78                        | 1438             | 823718.27              | 4704.0091                      |
| 8       | Haryana           | 24                            | 543253                 | 4707.75                        | 52               | 832635.96              | 6550.0266                      |
| 9       | Himachal Pradesh  | 7                             | 2451                   | 9.56                           | 0                | -0.39                  | 0.0012                         |
| 10      | Jammu & Kashmir   | 0                             | 0                      | 37.59                          | 3                | 20000.00               | 144.9000                       |
| 11      | Jharkhand         | 2                             | 13153                  | 83.55                          | 5                | 49245.00               | 117.5340                       |
| 12      | Karnataka         | 170                           | 368289                 | 1629.59                        | 204              | 268906.82              | 2133.6146                      |
| 13      | Kerala            | 0                             | 18189                  | 1.92                           | -2               | -335.44                | 40.8755                        |
| 14      | Madhya Pradesh    | 156                           | 823392                 | 7383.75                        | 309              | 1593986.54             | 8496.6100                      |
| 15      | Maharashtra       | 116                           | 409315                 | 2567.98                        | 150              | 452201.37              | 2735.0095                      |
| 16      | Meghalaya         | 0                             | 0                      | 0                              | 0                | -0.24                  | 0.0040                         |
| 17      | Mizoram           | 0                             | -454                   | 0                              | 0                | 0.00                   | 0.00                           |
| 18      | Nagaland          | -1                            | 564                    | 1.6                            | 0                | -0.43                  | 0.00                           |
| 19      | Orissa            | 3                             | 3206                   | 112.69                         | 0                | 0.24                   | 305.8180                       |
| 20      | Punjab            | 33                            | 85290                  | 707.32                         | 28               | 306636.10              | 1818.7063                      |
| 21      | Rajasthan         | 118                           | 545743                 | 1112.32                        | 62               | 521796.11              | 2391.9529                      |
| 22      | Tamilnadu         | 3                             | 12016                  | 586.4                          | 30               | 113404.82              | 683.2745                       |
| 23      | Uttar Pradesh     | 17                            | 205053                 | 5584.4                         | 29               | 260411.68              | 2234.8925                      |
| 24      | Uttarakhand       | 1                             | 1461                   | 5.12                           | 7                | -34091.96              | 394.2745                       |
| 25      | West Bengal       | 13                            | 42225                  | 275.15                         | 0                | -0.49                  | 201.8510                       |
| 26      | Tripura           | 2                             | 18416                  | 119.1                          | 0                | 0.00                   | 116.8525                       |
|         | Territories       | 0                             |                        | 0                              |                  | 0.00                   | 0.0000                         |
|         |                   | Telangana figures included in | Andhra                 | Pradesh                        | 93               | 521739.67              | 3621.7100                      |
| 28      | Union             |                               | 0                      |                                | 0                |                        |                                |
|         | Total             | 1381                          | 4484077                | 33573.51                       | 2555             | 6496381.59             | 42404.3835                     |

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