(a) whether some States have launched Integrated Foodgrains Development Programme
(paddy) in place of centrally sponsored paddy Development Programme;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether the Government proposes to include all the States especially all the blocks of
Scheduled Tribe areas to provide assistance for the equipments and insecticides and make
available machineries like power tillers and thrashers etc.; and
(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (SHRI KANTI LAL BHURIA)
(a) to (d): There is no Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Integrated Foodgrains Development
Programme (Paddy) in place of Paddy Development programme. The Integrated Cereals
Development Programme in Rice Based Cropping System Areas (ICDP-Rice) is implemented by
the Central Government under Macro Management of Agriculture (MMA) in areas growing rice
as major crop for increasing productivity of cereals as a cropping system approach. Under
MMA, the States/UTs have been given flexibility to develop and pursue activities on basis of
their regional priorities. Assistance is provided under MMA to farmers of the country including
those in Scheduled Tribe areas for power tillers, threshers, insecticides etc.