MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
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(a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 306 DUE FOR REPLY ON 10TH DECEMBER, 2019.
(a): In order to enhance the production of rice, wheat, pulses, coarse cereals, nutri-cereals, commercial crops and oilseeds in the country, the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) is being implemented through area expansion and productivity enhancement in a sustainable manner; restoring soil fertility and productivity at the individual farm level; enhancing farm level economy i.e. (farm profits) to restore confidence amongst the farmers; and enhancing post-harvest value addition at farm gate for better price realization to farmers through efficient market linkages. For food grains and oilseeds, assistance is being provided on interventions such as cluster demonstrations on improved package of practices, cropping system, seed distribution & production of high yielding varieties, farm machineries/resource conservation machineries/tools, efficient water application tools, plant protection measures, nutrient management/ soil ameliorants, cropping system based trainings to the farmers.
(b): There are seven components being implemented under NFSM i.e., NFSM-Rice, NFSM-Wheat, NFSM-Pulses, NFSM-Coarse Cereals, NFSM-Nutri-Cereals, NFSM-Commercial Crops and NFSM-Oilseeds. The State/district wise details for food grains are as under.
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State/district wise details for food grains:
Sl. States Number of NFSM Districts
No. Rice Wheat Pulses Coarse Cereals (Maize & Barley) Nutri- Cereals
1 Andhra Pradesh 5 13 5 7
2 Arunachal Pradesh 10 17 17
3 Assam 13 27 4
4 Bihar 15 10 38 11
5 Chhattisgarh 13 27 8 10
6 Gujarat 2 5 26 3 19
7 Goa 2
8 Haryana 7 21 6 9
9 Himachal Pradesh 2 11 12 12
10 Jharkhand 4 24 12
11 Karnataka 7 30 9 25
12 Kerala 1 14
13 Madhya Pradesh 8 16 51 22 24
14 Maharashtra 8 3 33 7 26
15 Manipur 9 9 9
16 Meghalaya 7 11 11
17 Mizoram 6 8 8
18 Nagaland 11 11 11
19 Odisha 8 30 8 6
20 Punjab 12 22 3
21 Rajasthan 14 33 11 23
22 Sikkim 2 4 4
23 Tamil Nadu 8 30 9 15
24 Tripura 8 8 8
25 Telangana 4 9 4 4
26 Uttar Pradesh 23 31 75 28 24
27 Uttarakhand 5 9 13 13 9
28 West Bengal 7 18 4 1
Union Territories (UTs)
1 Jammu & Kashmir 8 6 20 20
2 Ladakh 0 2 2 2
Total States 24 10 28 26 14
Total Union Territories 1 2 2 2
Total Districts 194 126 638 269 202
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Apart from foodgrains, NFSM commercial crops are implemented in 15 states for cotton, 9 states for jute & mesta, 13 states for sugarcane and 24 states and 1 Union Territory for Oilseeds.
(c) & (d): The details of target set and achievements made under the Mission of foodgrains is as under;
(Production in million tonnes)
S.N Crops
/Component 2006-07 Base Year Additional production targets for
11th Plan Average Production
for 11th Plan Increase in Production (5-3) Additional Target Production for 12th Plan Average Production for 12th Plan Increase in Production (8-5) Additional Production target 3 years (2017-18 to 2019-20) Average production
of 2 years (2017-18 to 2018-19) Increase in Production
(11-8)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 Rice 93.36 10.00 97.25 3.89 10 106.29 9.04 5 114.59 8.30
2 Wheat 75.81 8.00 84.36 8.55 8 93.34 8.98 3 101.03 7.69
3 Pulses 14.20 2.00 15.86 1.66 4 18.84 2.98 3 24.41 5.57
4 Coarse Cereals 33.91 0.00 39.95 6.03 3 41.70 1.75 2 44.96 3.26
Total foodgrains 217.28 20.00 237.42 20.13 25 260.17 22.75 13 284.99 24.82
During 2006-07 (pre-NFSM period), the production of food grains was 217.28 million tonnes. After implementation of the NFSM the average production of foodgrains (2017-18 & 2018-19) reached to a level of 284.99 million tonnes. 14th Finance Commission has set target to achieve 13 million tonnes of additional food grains in 3 years from 2017-18 to 2019-20. Country has achieved 9.84 million tonnes of additional food grains in 2 years (2017-18 to 2018-19) considering 2016-17 as base year.
Apart from food grains, the targets were also set for commercial crops and oilseeds i.e 36 million tonnes for oilseeds, 385 million tonnes for sugarcane, 35.50 million bales
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for cotton and 11.20 million bales for jute & mesta for the year 2018-19. Against this, the country has achieved 32.26 million tonnes of oilseeds, 400.16 million tonnes of sugarcane, 28.71 million bales of cotton and 9.77 million bales of jute & mesta.
(e): In order to promote cultivation of pulses and oilseeds in Tamil Nadu, the State is already included under NFSM-Pulses and NFSM-Oilseeds. The NFSM-Pulses is being implemented in 30 districts of Tamil Nadu. Further, the State has been given liberty to identify the districts for implementation of NFSM-Oilseeds.
As regards funds, the Government of India allocates the funds to the state as a whole, and further allocation to potential district is made by the state. The allocation of funds under NFSM-Foodgrains and NFSM-Oilseeds since, 2015-16 is as under:
(Rs. in crore)
Year NFSM- Foodgrain NFSM-Oilseeds
Allocation Release Allocation Release
2015-16 36.300 35.870 8.88 8.06
2016-17 54.420 44.520 9.01 7.83
2017-18 51.280 37.020 11.27 9.87
2018-19 58.160 55.200 14.01 11.84
2019-20* 56.289 29.190 15.21 9.73
*As on 04.12.2019
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