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GROUP V

GROUP V. Presentation on Agrarian Crisis and Agricultural Crisis-Issues and Solutions. Participating States. Karnataka (Group Leader) Kerala Andhra Pradesh Telangana Tripura Sikkim Rajasthan Bihar Tamil Nadu. Factors related to Agrarian Crisis. Climate change/Natural Calamities

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GROUP V

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  1. GROUP V Presentation on Agrarian Crisis and Agricultural Crisis-Issues and Solutions

  2. Participating States • Karnataka (Group Leader) • Kerala • Andhra Pradesh • Telangana • Tripura • Sikkim • Rajasthan • Bihar • Tamil Nadu

  3. Factors related to Agrarian Crisis • Climate change/Natural Calamities • Declining share of Agriculture in GDP • Large proportion of small and Marginal Holdings • Limited access to irrigation

  4. Factors related to Agrarian Crisis • Higher indebtness of farmers as compared to their income • Limited access to institutional Credit • Borrowings from money lenders leading to harassment

  5. Factors related to Agrarian Crisis • Crop failure and low crop yield • Price fluctuation and non renumerative prices • Failure of investments such as Borewells • Socio-economic factors-Rising expenditure on social consumption and Health • Loss of Livestock due to diseases • Increasing Tenancy and Tenancy cost

  6. Solutions • Easy and affordable credit access • Reduce harassment of Farmers by Private Money lenders • Infrastructure support • Risk mitigation through Crop Insurance/Market Intervention • Farmer Producers Organisation/Joint liability Groups/SHGs

  7. Solutions • Crop Counselling and awareness creation • Linking land value while sanctioning bank loan for Agriculture • Financial Counselling • Diversification of Livelihood activities

  8. Solutions • Drought proofing through Watershed Management • Shift in focus from production to Post Harvest Management (Emphasis on Cold storage/Warehouses) • Encouraging Entrepruenership among agri graduates (Agriclinics and Agribusiness)

  9. Initiatives by Government of India • Reduce cost of cultivation to ensure renumerative returns (SHC/PKVY/NCU/PMKSY) • Encouraging sustainable Agriculture (NFSM/MIDH/NMOOP/NMAET) • Bonus of Rs. 200 per quintal in case of Pulses over and above MSP • Enhancement of Input Subsidy (under NDRF) for crop loss

  10. Initiatives by State Government Karnataka • Krishi Bhagya • Custom Hiring Service Centres (Krishi Yanthradhare) • Special Package for Ragi and Jowar • Contingency Crop Plan upto sub block level • Enhanced Subsidy to SC/ST on all inputs

  11. Krishi Bhagya • Harvesting of rain water, storage, lifting and efficient use of scarce water and promoting high value crops including pulse and coarse cereals • 17768 farm ponds completed • Scheme is being implemented in the form of package. The components are farm pond, diesel pumpset micro irrigation, poly house , cropping system and animal husbandary

  12. Custom Hire Centers KRISHI YANTHRA DHARE • Established of 183 Custom Hire Centers at sub-block levels to provide farm equipments to facilitate timely field operations during 2014-15 with a budget of 63 crores. • Rs. 127.125 Crores is the budget allocation for 2015-16 to establish 278 centres

  13. Initiatives by State Governments Tamil Nadu • Crop specific package • Input Management • Weather Proofing Kerala • Package for Kuttanad wetland ecosystem Uttar Pradesh • Special package for Drought Mitigation in Bundelkand region

  14. Initiatives by State Governments Maharashtra • Vidarbha Intensive Irrigation Development Programme West Bengal • Weather Resilient Agriculture and Organic Cultivation

  15. Thank You

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