Implementation of New Initiatives on Region specific, Crop specific strategies

1. Implementation of New Initiatives on Region specific, Crop specific strategies Status Review

2. New Initiatives • Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India • Increasing productivity of Rice based cropping system • Watershed centric Integrated Development of 60,000 pulses and oilseeds villages in rainfed areas • Watershed plus activities • Accelerated Pulses Production Program • En bloc technology promotion in 1000 units of 1000 hectares each in two years for five main pulses crops

3. Eastern India Initiative • Six Eastern States: West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Eastern part of Uttar Pradesh • Assam included recently • Green Revolution - Crop Husbandry • Addressing underlying constraints • Soil, water, Energy, small holdings, pests and diseases • Bridging the yield gaps • Technology Promotion

4. Steps taken by Government of India • Expert group • Finalizing the Strategy Plan • Workshop to adopt the plans • Monitoring Structure • 3 tier structure • CRRI as nodal institution • Task Forces • Water resources • 1st meeting held on 10th August • Power • 1st meeting held on 20th July • Hybrid Rice Promotion • Plan to cover 3 million hectares by 2012 • Increase in MSP for Pulses • NAFED to set up purchase centres in seven key States • Timely release of Funds • Provisional Releases

5. Bihar Focus on Pulses with 21 % funds 63.94 crores

6. Chhattisgarh 67.15 crores 60 % rainwater harvesting ; Innovative and Direct

7. Jharkhand Focus on Rainwater harvesting, Wheat dev, Non NFSM Districts 29.6 crores

8. Orissa Focus on Hybrids, pulses and SRI; E pest surveillance 79.67 Crores

9. Eastern UP 57.27 Crores STW for summer rice is the focus

10. West Bengal Balanced in key areas 102.37 crores

11. Monitoring Structure Central Steering Committee Considers reports of SLMTs Meets once in three months State Level Monitoring Teams Visits the assigned State once a month Reviews the progress Considers the reports of KVKs District Level Monitoring Teams Visits the projects in the Districts Verifies the quality of service delivery Prepares reports in prescribed formats Central Rice Research Institute Nodal Agency for Monitoring Identifies partner institutions for SLMTs Assigns scientific resources for district level projects Prepares formats for reporting Documentation of outcomes

12. State Level Teams

13. Status • Kharif Season affected by drought in the Region • Additional area under Pulses as intercrops would act as a mitigating measure • Most activities planned for Rabi season • Water and soil conservation • Wheat, rabi maize, seed production • Monitoring system to support delivery • Involvement of CRRI and KVKs

14. Integrated development of pulses and oilseeds villages Water shed centric, dryland farming

15. Plan and Allocation

16. Concept • Watershed plus activities in developed watersheds • Crop development • Management and maintenance of community rainwater harvesting and water conservation structures • Programs to supplement efforts under ongoing schemes • Creation of tangible assets in rainfed areas • Empowering watershed areas for utilization of water • Convergence • Crop development schemes • NFSM, ISOPOM, MMA • Watershed development schemes • IWMP, MMA, NREGS

17. Strategy • Ridge furrow planter identified as the key intervention • to reduce water stress - moisture or flooding • To reduce incidences of diseases • Machinery for dry land areas to improve efficiency • Prime movers • Tractors, Power tillers • Field operations • Seed cum fertilizer drills, rotavators • Promoting custom hiring at subsidized rate • Increased reach • Affordable to large numbers of small and marginal farmers • Optimal utilization of machinery • Agri business agri clinics to service contracts • Focused working in the identified villages • Priority under NFSM, ISOPOM and A3P • Involvement of Watershed societies, Power companies, Irrigation department

18. FAQs • Inefficient management of community assets • States like MP, Punjab already running custom hiring centres • Outsourcing possible to ABACs or to progressive farmers with condition to serve farmers in the area at subsidized rate • Individual beneficiary program already available • Other interventions like seeds are more important • Yes, but those are available under other schemes as well • No freedom to States • No proposal on imaginative alternatives received • Use of solar water pumps? • Lining the constructed farm ponds? • Construction of diggis?

19. Status • No implementation in Kharif Season • Villages identified in all the States as also the implementing agencies at watershed level • Watershed wise planning in AP • Machinery would be in place before sowing operations in AP, Maharashtra, Gujarat and UP • Potential Bundelkhand region in UP and MP • Procurement process still not completed in MP and Karnataka • Deviance from recommended measures • Rajasthan plans to implement seed minikits and other inputs free of cost to individual farmers (A3P pattern) • MP promoting Machinery to individual farmers on the MMA subsidy pattern apart from setting up custom hiring centres departmentally

20. Accelerated Pulses promotion program Promotion of critical inputs in large number of compact blocks

21. Program • Selection of Districts as per area under five crops Red gram, Green Gram, Black Gram, Bengal Gram and Lentils • States to identify the blocks, villages and the farmers in the allotted districts to cover 1000 hectares of area under these crops for each unit • Supplying kits of critical inputs free of cost • seeds, nutrients and plant protection chemicals to all the farmers in 1000 units • Financial limit of Rs. 5400 per hectare for each kit • Kit of nutrient and chemicals for 2 hectare per farmer to all the farmers • Cost of one Technical Assistant for six months per unit • Contingencies for mobility • Composition of kits to be decided as per recommendations of respective SAUs • Type and quantity of nutrients and chemicals may differ • More units could be planned from savings • More items could be planned under the kit • Crop Insurance • Seed minikits supplied by GoI for 0.4 hectares per farmer • For multiplication of recommended varieties to cover entire area by next season

22. A3P crops in 2010-11

23. Implementation Status

24. NCIPM Units

25. Prospects • Higher area coverage of pulses in Kharif and good rains in September augur well for the targeted production of 16.5 million tons of pulses this year • Good work reported by Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra and Gujarat under A3P • Line sowing • Intercrops and on bunds • Pest surveillance • Need to associate with • 6000 block demonstrations by KVKs • ICRISAT and ICARDA for chick pea and lentil promotion

26. Sum up • Quick grounding • Fine tune planning during implementation • Complete roll out feasible during Rabi season • Eastern India program planned well but hit by drought • Role of KVKs and CRRI for monitoring • Assam to prepare plan for Boro Rice • A3P has progressed very well • Protocol for pest management • Training of technical assistance on pest surveillance • Pulses and Oilseeds Villages program generally lagging • Not confident of ‘service’ model • Procurement process • Consolidation needed • Reporting system for tracking progress of interventions across different schemes • Incentive through top up funds for completing watershed programs

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