KRISHI KARMAN AWARD 2014-2015

FOR FOODGRAIN PRODUCTION

ACHIEVEMENTS OF TAMILNADU IN FOODGRAINS AND OILSEEDS PRODUCTION – 2014-2015

(4th ADVANCE ESTIMATE)

PERFORMANCE OF TAMIL NADU AS PER EXISTING CRITERIA – TOTAL FOODGRAINS

Criteria Production (L.MT)

Yield (kg./ Ha.) Procurement (L.MT)

Productivity over all India average

(Kg./Ha.)(2013-14)

% Expenditure on Crop development

schemes

Best Year 110.02 (2013-14)

3167 (2013-14)

32.63 L.MT procured as against

127.96 L.MT of Production

2120 Rs.168.29 crores incurred as against

Rs.173.71 crores2014-15 127.96 3420 3420

% of increase 16 8 26 (% of

procurement) 61 97

MEASURES TAKEN FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTIONINVIGORATING AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION MACHINERY

Fixed schedule visits by extension functionaries

385 blocks segmented as 16936 micro groups2117 Extension worker covers all the allocated villages in a fortnightTechnical skill of Extension Workers Enriched every fortnight

NUTRIENT CONSERVATION AND FARM SOIL PRESERVATION

individual Farm wise soil sampling and analysis of 67.45 lakh farmers

Farmers Integrated Hand Book (FIHB), an information digest on soil nutrient status distributed

Eco-friendly sustainable agricultural practices5 model organic villages ; 150 model IPM Villages

7 Liquid Biofertilizers Laboratories – 2.5 Lakh litres/year

2 New Organic Fertilizer analysing laboratories

Increasing Organic Content of the SoilState Sponsored Schemes for distribution of Green Manure seeds, Blue Green Algae, Azolla, Pleurotus Kits, and Demonstrations cum training on Vermicomposting

WATER USE EFFICIENCY•Augmenting Water Harvesting Resources

– 70,000 new farm ponds by dovetailing MGNREGS

– 497 Recharge Shafts established– 973 Farm ponds deepened

•Increasing Water Use Efficiency– Precision farming in 2500 acres of

redgram

•Crop Specific Technologies– System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in

51% of the total paddy area)– 3000 whole villages - 2.61 L.Ha. – 2000 System of Pulses Intensification

(SPI) villages - 1.25 L.Ha. •Micro Irrigation in Millets and Pulses

ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE SEED DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

• Exclusively for Seed Production activities

• Ensuring farmers preferred quality certified seeds, and fixation of uniform procurement and sale price

INCREASING THE NET CULTIVABLE AREA UNDER FOOD GRAINS

• 12500 Acres of fallow lands brought back to Millets and Pulses cultivation

• Special scheme for Kuruvai (June-July) Paddy cultivation (Additional area of 1.5 lakh Ac. covered)

–12 hours uninterrupted 3 phase power supply, –Distribution of seedlings raised through community nursery and Inputs at free of cost

AGRO ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS (AESA) BASED INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Refined Plant Protection approach based on defender pest ratio and other eco parameters

• 10926 MT Technical grade Pesticides drastically reduced to 2142 MT (80%) over a period of 30 years

MEASURES TAKEN FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION

Government Sops to Farmers–100% subsidy for micro irrigation to small and marginal farmers–50 to 55% premium subsidy for enrollment under NAIS–State support for price realisation- incentive over & above MSP announced

by GOI– Rs.5 lakhs cash prize to the farmer obtaining highest yield adopting SRI–Interest free advance of Rs. 150 crores to TANFED –Waiver of 4% VAT on sale of chemical fertilizers–Exemption of 5% VAT on Naphtha to sustain urea production–Massive Rodent Pest Management demonstration – 1844 village Panchayats ;

1.84 crores rat burrows covered – –Farmers training in all blocks in co-ordination with Animal Husbandry Dept. –

Dairy Farming, Goat Rearing, Desi-bird rearing, Pisci culture, cocoon production, etc.,

NEW INNOVATIONS/INITIATIVESFOODGRAIN MISSION•Express Plan Approach

– Integrated package of three sub-missions to bridge the yield gap at farm level

•Farm Level Planning– Strategies adopted based on Yield gap

•Systematic Yield Monitoring– Micro level planning uploaded in FCMS and

monitored

Paddy•Interventions

– Community Nursery in 1743 acres and transplantation in 39240 acres

– Direct sowing in 8.47 lakh acres

•Productivity enhancing Inputs– Liquid Bio-fertilizers for the first time in 52765 acres– MN Mixture, Zinc Sulphate , Gypsum , Plant Protection

chemicals

• Mechanisation• Mechanized Planting in 42830 acres

– Assistance for • Custom hiring of Transplanters & Combined

harvesters• Power weeder, Rotovator, Paddy Thresher,

Self propelled Paddy transplanter• Solar pumpset linked with micro irrigation

– Varietal Replacement • Promotion of Less than 10 year old Paddy

varieties• Flood tolerant variety Swarna Sub-1 tried for

the first time in 1500 acres – Impact - Swarna Sub-1 – average rice yield was 5239

kg / ha

Millets •Interventions

– Seed drill sowing ; Community sowing– Intercropping with pulses ; Micro irrigation – Cluster Demonstration involving NGOs -

37845 acres (including remote villages)– Impact – Increase in area ; 15 - 20% 18%

Yield increase in millets Productivity enhancing Inputs• Liquid biofertilizer, Maize booster / plant

growth regulator & Biopesticides •Water use Efficiency

• Digging of micro farm ponds (5x5 x1.5 m)-162 units

• Installation of portable mobile sprinklers•Mechanisation

• Rotary cleaner cum grader, Destoner, Dehuller and packaging units to 100 commodity groups

NEW INNOVATIONS/INITIATIVESPulses•Interventions

– Redgram transplantation - 1.30 lakh acres– Precision farming - 1428 acres

•Area Expansion• Cluster and cropping system based

Demonstrations- 34320 acres• Bund cropping & bush cropping – 5.00 lakh

seedlings • Promotion of Rice fallow Pulses (Jan-Feb)

•Productivity enhancing Inputs– Pusa Hydrogel, DAP 2% Foliar spray

•Water use Efficiency• Sprinklers, mobile rain guns and pipes

•Value addition & Marketing• Farmer clusters and Farmer Producer

Organisations (FPOs) formed• Mini Dhall Mills• Pulses Procurement through Tamil Nadu Civil

Supplies Corporation

• IT based Service deliverance• Automation of the scheduled visit by

the extension functionaries to establish a virulent extension machinery– Ensuring service to farmers by

cluster approach. – Facilitating farmers to contact

extension workers• Online fertilizer and seed stock

monitoring– All private and co-operative dealers

are mapped – Stock update through mobile

application• Soil Fertility Mapping

– Online generation of soil test based Soil Health cards

Comprehensive Input Supply Management System (CISMS) / Online Billing– Integrated input supply chain – Transparency in Benefits availed– Information on Availability of inputs

• Module to monitor the seed stock position on real time basis and mobilization to needy places

– Online tracking of farm machinery distribution under different schemes

• Stimulating Group Farming– Empowerment of Farm Women in the

whole gamut of agricultural activities - 770 Food Security groups formed

NEW INNOVATIONS/INITIATIVES

PERFORMANCE AS PER EXISTING CRITERIA – RICE

Criteria Production (L.MT)

Productivity (kg./ Ha.) Procurement (L.MT)

Productivity over all India average

(Kg./Ha.) (2013-14)

% Expenditure on Crop development

schemes

Best Year

74.59 (2011-12)

4123 (2013-14) 28.43 L.MT

procured as against 79.14

L.MT of Production

2416Rs.38.67 crores

incurred as against

Rs.40.97 crores

2014-15 79.14 4325 4325

% of increase 6 5 36 (% of

procurement) 79 94

PERFORMANCE AS PER EXISTING CRITERIA – COARSE CEREALS

Criteria Production (L.MT)

Productivity (kg./ Ha.)

Product of production share of State and changeover of

highest production

Productivity over all India average

(Kg./Ha.) (2013-14)

% Expenditure on Crop development

schemes

Best Year 32.73 (2013-14)

3642 (2011-12) (9.6%share X 27%

increase)1717

Rs.11.58 crores incurred as

against Rs.12.22 crores2014-15 41.58 4282 4282

% of increase 27 18 259 149 95

PERFORMANCE AS PER EXISTING CRITERIA - PULSES

Best Year 6.14 (2013-14)

752 (2013-14) (3.8%share X 18%

increase)

764 Rs.69.06 crores incurred as against

Rs.73.48 crores2014-15 7.24 770 770

% of increase 18 2 68 1 94

PERFORMANCE OF TAMIL NADU AS PER EXISTING CRITERIA – OILSEEDS

Criteria Production (L.MT)

Productivity (kg./ Ha.)

Product of production share of

State and changeover of

highest production

Productivity over all India

average (Kg./Ha.) (2013-14)

% Expenditure on Crop

development schemes

Best Year

11.14 (2011-12)

2479 (2011-12)

(3% share)

1092Rs.14.91 crores

incurred as against Rs.12.95 crores

2014-15 9.73 2322 2322

% of increase 113 >100

EXPENDITURE UNDER VARIOUS SCHEMES SUPPORTING FOOD GRAIN PRODUCTION

S.No. Schemes Allocation

Total release

incl. unspent

Exp incurre

d

% Achmt. wrt

release

I NFSM      1 Rice 27.34 27.34 25.04 922 Pulses 33.74 33.74 29.58 883 Pulses - Additional Area

coverage6.12 6.12 5.86 96

4 Coarse Cereals 8.58 8.58 7.94 925 Commercial Crops 0.61 0.61 0.59 97  Total 76.38 76.38 69.01 90II NADP          Production Growth Activities      1 Kuruvai package 5.06 5.06 5.06 1002 Paddy Mission 8.57 8.57 8.57 1003 Millets Mission 3.64 3.64 3.64 1004 Pulses Mission 15.10 15.10 15.10 1005 Promoting Redgram

Cultivation for Nutritional Security

18.52 18.52 18.52 100

  Total activities for food grain production

50.89 50.89 50.89 100

S.No.

Schemes Allocation

Total release

incl. unspent

Exp incurred

% Achmt. wrt

release

5 Oilseed Mission 3.26 3.26 3.26 100

 Total Production Growth Activities

54.16 54.16 54.16 100

 Grand Total NADP (including all other

activities)87.64 87.64 87.63 100

III NMOOP        

1 MM I Oilseeds 10.01 6.74 9.80 > 100

2 MM II Oilpalm 3.97 2.63 1.62 62

3 MM III TBO 0.42 0.32 0.23 72

  Total 14.40 9.69 11.65 > 100

 Grand Total (NFSM, NADP

& NMOOP)178.43 173.71 168.29 97

Rs. in Crores

• 28 Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) • Post Harvest Infrastructure

– 277 Regulated Markets, 179 Farmers Markets– Market complexes for paddy, – 10 rural business hubs– 99 cold storage units– 585 storage godowns and 1998 drying yards– 100 Integrated Agricultural Extension Centres– 30 AGMARK laboratories

• Pledge loan issued to 3114 farmers & 467 traders – Rs. 35.71 crores • Agro Marketing Intelligence and Business Promotion Centre (AMI&BPC) -

Crop advisory and Market price information to 22.50 lakh farmers • e- Auctioning facility for and maize

POST HARVEST MANAGEMENT & MARKETING SUPPORT

FUTURE STRATEGIES & ROAD MAP FOR ACHIEVING HIGHER PRODUCTION • State Seed Farms as Model Farms• Identification and development of fallow lands• Ecologically based principles and farming

practices • paired row cultivation of Green manure with paddy• Intensification of Bio-pesticide production• On-farm soil fertility enrichment in sugarcane - bio-

compost using Bio-mineraliser

• Group farming to promote inter-personal relationships

• Rainfed Area Development through community based approach

• Pulses intensification through technology adoption

• State Balanced Growth Fund to remove the regional imbalances and the disparities in per capita income

• Integrated Farming including animal husbandry and Farm pond allied activities for sustainable livelihood

• Strategic Input Management System– Fertilizer Enforcement Management

Information System (FEMIS)– Seed Production Enforcement &

Certification System (SPECS)– Micro Irrigation Management

Information System (MIMIS)– Farm Management System

(FARMS)– Linking of AADHAR number in

AGRISNET – FCMS farmer Database

THANKS