all about agriculture 2014,production,schemes,MSP,important development aspects etc.

1. Panoramic view of
Indian Agriculture
2014
Mahesh.B.Tengli ,B.Sc. (Agri)
ACR,UAS,Raichur.
{M.Sc. (Agri) Extension Education}
NMCA,NAU.
Date: 13/1/2015

2. INDIAN AGRICULTURE AT A GLANCE 2014
 Agriculture sector employs 54.6% of the total workforce.
 India rank 135 in human development index with 0.586 out of 1. (july2014)
 The total Share of Agriculture & Allied Sectors (Including Agriculture,
Livestock, forestry and fishery sub sectors) in terms of percentage of Gross
Domestic Product is 13.9 percent during 2013-14 at 2004-05 prices. [As per
the estimates released by Central Statistics Office]
 For the 12th Plan (2012-17), a growth target of 4 percent has been set for the
Agriculture Sector
 As per the 4th Advance Estimates of Production of food grains for 2013-14,
total food grain production is estimated to be 264.77 Million Tonnes.
 Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh
 Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur

3. GROWTH STRATEGY
 In order to keep up the momentum gained during the 11th Plan and achieve the
targeted growth rate of 4% during the 12thFive Year Plan as also the ensure
focused approach and to avoid overlap, all the ongoing 51 schemes of the
Department have been restructured into five missions viz. National Food
Security Mission (NFSM), Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture
Mission (MIDH), National Mission on Oil Seed and Oil Palm (NMOOP),
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), and National Mission
on Agricultural Extension & Technology (NMAET); five Central Sector
Schemes viz. National Crop Insurance Programme (NCIP), Integrated Scheme
on Agri-Census & Statistics (ISAC&S), Integrated Scheme of Agriculture
Marketing (ISAM), Integrated Scheme of Agriculture Cooperation (ISAC) and
Secretariat Economic Service; and one State Plan Scheme viz. Rashtriya Krishi
Vikas Yojana.

4.  Recognizing the importance of Agriculture Sector, the Government during the
budget 2014-15 took a number of steps for sustainable development of
Agriculture. These steps include …
 Enhanced institutional credit to farmers
 promotion of scientific warehousing infrastructure including cold storages and cold
chains in the country for increasing shelf life of agricultural produce
 Improved access to irrigation through Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sichayee Yojana
 provision of Price Stabilisation Fund to mitigate price volatality in agricultural
produce
 Mission mode scheme for Soil Health Card
 Setting up of Agri-tech Infrastructure fund for making farming competitive and
profitable
 provide institutional finance to joint farming groups of “Bhoomi Heen Kisan”
through NABARD
 development of indigenous cattle breeds and promoting inland fisheries and other
non-farm activities to supplement the income of farmers

5.  Target for providing institutional agricultural credit to farmers during 2014-15
has been enhanced to Rs. 8 lakh crore which is expected to surpass.
 Agriculture credit at a concessional rate of 7% with an interest subvention of
3% for timely repayment will continue during 2014-15.
 A Kisan TV - Channel dedicated to agriculture will be launched with the initial
allocation of Rs. 100 crores in the current financial year
 An initial allocation of Rs. 200 crore has been allocated for establishing
Agriculture Universities in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan and Horticulture
Universities in Telangana and Haryana.

6.  An allocation of Rs. 100 crore has been made in the current financial year for
setting up of two institutions of excellence in Assam and Jharkhand which will
be at par with Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa.
 An allocation of Rs.100 crore is made for 2014-15 for setting up Agri-tech
Infrastructure Fund with a view to increasing public and private investments in
agriculture and making farming competitive and profitable.
 Various initiatives taken by Government to support agriculture and allied
sectors is to sustain the growth rate at 4%.
 In order to increase profitability for small and marginal farmers, Rs. 200 crore
has been earmarked for setting up of 2000 Farmer Producer Organisations.
 Wage employment under MGNREGA will be mainly used for more productive
asset creation substantially linked to agriculture & allied activities.

7. Agriculture related schemes 2014
 PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI SINCHAI YOJANA Rs. 1000 cr (providing
irrigation facilities in rain-fed areas ).
 PASHMINA PROMOTION PROGRAM
Rs.50cr (Pashmina wool production at Jammu &Kashmir).
 KISAN TV Rs.100cr( to provide real time information on new techniques
,water conservation and organic farming)

8. Rashtriya Gokul Mission 2014
 India ranks first among the world’s milk producing Nations are such 1998 and
milk production peaked at 137.97 million tonnes in 2013-14.
 India has the largest bovine population in the world.
 The bovine genetic resource of India is represented by 37 well recognized
indigenous Breeds of cattle and 13 breeds of buffaloes.
 Indigenous bovines are robust and resilient and are particularly suited to the
climate and environment of their respective breeding tracts.
 Rashtriya Gokul Mission a project under the National Program for Bovine
Breeding and Dairy Development is being launched with the objective of
conserving and developing indigenous Breeds in a focused and scientific
manner. The potential to enhance the productivity of the indigenous breeds
through professional farm management and superior nutrition, as well as
gradation of indigenous bovine germplasm will be done with an outlay of Rs.
550 crores.

9. RURAL DEVELOPMENT SHEME AND PROGRAM
2014
 Rural development allocation Rs.83, 696crore
 Rural housing scheme Rs.8,000cr
 National rural drinking water program
 Village entrepreneurship program, national rural internet
mission Rs.500cr

10.  Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojna : Launched on 11
October 2014.
 It is an ambitious village development programme where in each member of
parliament will take the responsibility of developing physical and institutional
infrastructure in three villages by 2019.nearly 800 MP’s are there so by 2019
2500villages will be developed , there is also a plan to introduce the same
scheme for member of legislative assembly (MLA).

11. Deendayal Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojna
 to provide 24*7 power supply to rural areas
 augment power supply to rural areas
 strengthen sub transmission and distribution system

12.  A clone of the only wild-buffalo in Chhattisgarh in semi-captivity has been
produced through the ‘Hand-guided Cloning Technique’ at ICAR- National
Dairy Research Institute, Karnal. The female calf was named ‘Deepasha’ and
was born on December, 12, 2014. The calf was born by normal parturition.
Deepasha’-a buffalo clone born on 12 December 2014

13. MSP-2014-2015 announced by GOI
CROP MSP ( per Quintal)
PADDY COMMMON Rs.1360/-, GRADE ‘A’ Rs.1400/-
JOWAR Hybrid RS.1530/-, Maldandi Rs.1550/-
MAIZE Rs.1310/-
TUR RS.4350/-
COTTON Rs.3075/- medium staple, Rs. 4050 /-Long staple
GROUNDNUT Rs.4000/- shell
JUTE Rs.2400/-
CROP Fair and remunerative price
Sugarcane Rs.220/-
SOYBEAN Rs.2500/-(black),Rs.2560/-(yellow)
MOONG Rs.4600/-

14. Agricultural Statistics Division, Directorate of Economics & Statistics
Department of Agriculture & Cooperation Fourth Advance Estimates
of Production of Food grains for 2013-14
Crop Production (Million Tonnes)
Rice 91.69 Kharif +14.85 Rabi=106.54
Wheat 95.9Kharif
TOTAL CEREALS 123.22Kharif+122.28Rabi=245.50
Tur 3.29 Kharif
Gram 9.88 Kharif
TOTAL PULSES 6.02Kharif+13.25Rabi=19.27
TOTAL FOOD GRAINS 264.77

15. Crop Production (Million Tonnes)
Groundnut 78.13Kharif +18.60Rabi =96.73total
Rapeseed & Mustard 79.60 total
Soyabean 119.89 total
TOTAL OILSEEDS(9 OIL SEED CROPS ) 328.77
Cotton 365.90 lakh bales (1 bale=170kg)
Jute 109.82 lakh bales (1 bale =180kg)
Sugarcane (Cane) 3500.22

16.  The share of plan outlay for Horticulture in Agriculture which was 3.9% during
Ninth Plan has increased to 4.6% during the current Twelfth Plan. This share
was 11.6% during the Eleventh Plan.
 The actual expenditure for National Horticulture Mission increased from
Rs.917.33 crore during 2007-08 to Rs. 1809.56 crore during 2013-14. Total
expenditure on horticulture research and development (Plan & Non Plan)
during the Eleventh Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12) Plan was Rs. 1383.13 crore.
 The area under horticulture crops which was 12.77 million hectares during
1991-1992 has increased to 23.69 million hectares during 2012-13.
 The total production during this period has increased by nearly 2.8 times and
corresponding productivity has increased 1.5 times.

17.  Mission Soil Health Card 2014
 A mission has been formulated to provide every farmer with Soil Health Card.
Issue of 3 crore Soil Health Cards in the current year, 5.50 crore Soil Health
Cards in year 2015-16 and 5.50 crore Soil Health Cards in year 2016-17 is
targeted. Besides, 100 Mobile Soil Testing Laboratories (MSTLs) will also be
set up in year 2014-15.
 Bhartiya Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Pariyojana
2014
 The Ministry agriculture has framed guidelines for above said project to
promote organic farming and to develop potential markets for organic
products. Aim of the project is to maximize the utilization of natural resources
through eco-friendly cultivation.

18.  The National Horticultural Research and Development
Foundation ( NHRDF)
 The National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation ( NHRDF)
has recently identified a new garlic genotype “G-389” which can be harvested
within 72-80 days during Kharif, late Kharif and 85-95 days in the Rabi
season, about 40-50 days earlier than other garlic varieties grown in India old
variety need 270 days to harvest.
 Horticulture Development
CHAMAN – This innovative project envisages use of remote sensing to assess
production and area of horticulture crops. This project is formulated in 2014

19.  National Agroforestry Policy, 2014 has been approved. It has
been decided to take up Plantation of trees on farm bunds in all the
developmental programmes of Deptt. of Agriculture & Cooperation,
Government of India to take this Policy forward.
 National Mission for SustainableAgriculture(NMSA)
has been made operational from the current 2014 fiscal under which schemes
of Integrated Farming System (IFS) have been approved in which activities
like horticulture, livestock, fishery, agroforestry, value addition are to be taken
up along with crops/cropping system.

20. Drought Management :2014
 To deal with challenges posed by delayed and aberrant monsoon and in the
wake of shortfall in sowing of major crops during kharif-2014. , Government
has initiated following series of interventions
 Implementation of Diesel Subsidy Scheme for protective irrigation of crops
 Enhancement of ceiling on seed subsidy to partially recompense the farmer for
the additional expenditure incurred in resowing and/or purchasing appropriate
varieties of seeds
 Implementation of drought mitigating interventions on perennial horticulture
crops under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) with
an allocation of Rs.700 crore

21. Current year i.e. 2014 events in agriculture .
 Implementation of Additional Fodder Development Programme (AFDP) with
an allocation of Rs.100 crore as a sub-scheme of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
(RKVY) for ensuring availability of fodder;
 Waiver of duty on import of de-oiled soya extract, groundnut oil cake,
sunflower oil cake, canola oil meal, mustard oil cake, rice bran and palm kernel
cake to increase availability of feed ingredients.
 To deal with the situation arising out of weak monsoon/deficient rainfall,
Central Research Institute of Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), in collaboration
with State Agricultural Universities and State Governments, has prepared crop
contingency plans for 565 districts of the country.

22.  UN declare 2015 as International Year of Soils
 The United Nations (UN) dedicates an entire calendar year to focus on
particular topics or themes. Many countries actively participate in promoting
these years.
 2015: UN International Year of Soils
 The International Year of Soils aims to raise awareness of why soils are
important for food security and the ecosystem, which comprises all plants and
animals in an area.
 Soils are made up of organic remains, clay and rock particles, found on the
Earth’s surface. We need soils to produce food, give clothes and build homes.
Soils also store and filter water, recycle nutrients, and create a barrier against
floods.
 The area of fertile soils covering the world’s surface is limited. Deforestation,
bad agricultural practices and pollution can cause soil degradation and erosion.
Soils are also trapped underground when cities keep growing in size and more
buildings are made.

23.  2015: UN International Year of Light and Light-Based
Technologies
 The International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies (IYL
2015) aims to raise global awareness of the social, economic and
developmental role of light and optical technologies.
 Light plays a vital role in the world. Not only is light a source of life
– without sunlight, life as we know on Earth would not exist. It is
also essential for the most basic and the most advanced human
activities.
 Light-based technologies revolutionized medicine and made day-to-
day communications easier and faster. They transformed the
entertainment industry and led to many innovations in art and
culture.

24. Source
 Ministry of agriculture and cooperation
 Press bureau of India
 e-resources

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