Lok Sabha Question No. 19 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-21
Subject: Rural Godowns
Ministry: AGRICULTURE
Asked by: DEVJI MANSINGRAM PATEL

O.I.H

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & COOPERATION

**LOK  SABHA**

**UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 19**

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  21 ST JULY, 2015

**RURAL GODOWNS**

19. SHRI DEVJI M. PATEL:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE 	     कृषि मंत्री

be pleased  to state:

(a) 	whether there is any scheme to impart training to the farmers under Gramin Bhandaran Yojana on scientific storage in rural areas of the country including Rajasthan;

(b) 	if so, the details thereof; and

(c) 	the number of farmers trained in the country including Rajasthan during each of the last three years and the current year, State-wise?

### ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

कृषि मंत्रालय में राज्य मंत्री  (SHRI MOHANBHAI KUNDARIA)

(a) & (b):	Yes, Madam.   Under the erstwhile Gramin Bhandaran Yojana (GBY), since subsumed in 2014 into the Agri-Marketing Infrastructure sub-scheme of Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM), there is a component which provides for Farmer Awareness Programme (FAPs) on scientific storage in rural areas of the country including in Rajasthan. These are conducted by Chaudhary Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM), Jaipur. The FAPs inter-alia provide awareness on scientific storage, promotion of Grading & Standrdisation, access to pledge finance/marketing credit including Negotiable Warehousing Receipt (NWR) and prevention of distress sale.

(c):	Details of Farmer Awareness Programme organized under the Scheme, in the country including Rajasthan during 2012-13 to date are Annexed.

**Annexure**

**Farmer Awareness Programme organized under the erstwhile Gramin Bhandaran Yojana during 2012-13 to date.**

| **Year**                                                                                                                                                                                                  | **ALL INDIA**              |                         | **Rajasthan**         |                              |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------|------------------------------|
|                                                                                                                                                                                                           | **No. of**  **Programmes** | **No. of Participants** | **No. of Programmes** | **No. of**  **Participants** |
| 2012-13                                                                                                                                                                                                   | 100                        | 3611                    | 3                     | 80                           |
| 2013-14                                                                                                                                                                                                   | 133                        | 4331                    | 6                     | 165                          |
| 2014-15*                                                                                                                                                                                                  | -                          | -                       | -                     | -                            |
| 2015-16*                                                                                                                                                                                                  | -                          | -                       | -                     | -                            |
| * No funds were earmarked for conducting of programmes, as the AMI sub-scheme was temporarily stopped on 05.08.2014, except for promoters from Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe and the North East Region. |                            |                         |                       |                              |

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