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Promotion of Organic Farming
By PIB Delhi
In view of increasing demand of organic agricultural product, Government has been promoting Organic farming as a chemical free farming through dedicated schemes namely Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) and Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER) since 2015-16. Both the schemes provide support to organic farmers from organic production to certification and marketing including post-harvest management like processing, packaging etc. The details of area and farmers brought under organic farming in various States including Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan under PKVY Scheme is given at Annexure-I.
Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP) has been introduced as a sub scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since 2020-21 for the promotion of traditional indigenous practices including Natural Farming (NF). The scheme mainly emphasizes on exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs and promotes on-farm biomass recycling with major stress on biomass mulching, use of cow dung-urine formulations and plant based preparations. Until now, under natural farming an area of 4.09 lakh ha area has been covered and a total fund of Rs. 4980.99 lakh has been released in 8 States across the country.
Government has initiated programme to provide financial assistance to individual farmers with 8.0 or more hectare land @ 2700/ha for 3 years for Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) certification through Regional Council or National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) certification.
Organic Farming enhances soil fertility and crop productivity. The research studies under ICAR-All India Network Programme on Organic Farming indicate that comparable yield or slightly higher yield to that of conventional management can be obtained in kharif and summer crops in 2 to 3 years, while in rabi crops the yield stabilizes after 5 years.
The use of on-farm organic inputs and adoption of Integrated Organic Farming System (IOFS) model minimizes the use of external inputs to a great extent.
Under PKVY & MOVCDNER schemes farmers are provided financial assistance of Rs 31000/ ha / 3 years and Rs 32500/ ha/ 3years respectively for organic inputs such as seeds, bio-fertilisers, bio-pesticides, organic manure, compost/ vermi-compost, botanical extracts etc. In addition to above, support is also provided for group/ Farmers Producers Organization (FPO) formation, training, certification, value addition and marketing of organic produce. Under BPKP, financial assistance of Rs. 12200/ha for 3 years is provided for cluster formation, capacity building and continuous handholding by trained personnel, certification and residue analysis.
Annexure I: State-wise Clusters, area & farmers under Parampragat Krishi Vikas Yojana scheme since 2015-16 Total
clustersArea covered Total no
farmers1 Andhra Pradesh 5300 206000 265000 2 Bihar 427 24600 21350 3 Chhattisgarh 1200 109000 60000 4 Gujarat 100 2000 5000 5 Goa 504 10080 25200 6 Haryana 20 400 1000 7 Jharkhand 250 8940 12500 8 Karnataka 1045 20900 52250 9 Kerala 619 96380 30950 10 Madhya Pradesh 3828 175560 191400 11 Maharashtra 1258 25160 62900 12 Odisha 1040 44800 52000 13 Punjab 250 5000 12500 14 Rajasthan 6150 123000 307500 15 Tamil Nadu 312 8240 15600 16 Telangana 690 13800 34500 17 Uttar Pradesh 1120 78580 56000 18 West Bengal 120 2400 6000 19 Assam 220 4400 11000 20 Arunachal Pradesh 19 380 950 21 Mizoram 34 680 1700 22 Manipur 30 600 1500 23 Nagaland 24 480 1200 24 Sikkim 150 3000 7500 25 Tripura 50 1000 2500 26 Meghalaya 45 900 2250 27 Himachal Pradesh 285 17700 14250 28 Jammu &Kashmir 28 560 1400 29 Uttarakhand 4485 140540 224250 30 Andman & Nicobar 68 1360 3400 31 Daman & Diu 55 1100 2750 32 Dadar Nagar 500 10000 25000 33 Delhi 500 10000 25000 34 Puducherry 8 160 400 35 Chandigarh 65 1300 3250 36 Lakshadeep 135 2700 6750 Total 30934 1151700 1546700
This information was given by the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
