National Conference RABI, 2009-10 24th & 25th September 2009

1. National Conference RABI, 2009-1024th & 25th September 2009 Presented by : Department of Agriculture, Kerala

2. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

3. Background • The impact of land reforms on agriculture • In 1992, only 6% of rural households had nil operational holdings • Fragmented holdings rendered agriculture unviable • Rise of petty production economy in agriculture • Rise of lease land farming and the uncertainties associated with it

4. Background (continued) • Crop area unchanged but massive shift from food to cash crops • Barring rubber, cardamom and coffee, yield increases have been modest. Rice yields have increased by just over 30 percent. • As a result, share of agriculture in GDP has declined substantially • Food crops output has declined sharply

5. Background (continued) • Stagnation or decline in prices of most agricultural commodities • Resultant stagnating or decline in real incomes • Ratio of agricultural to total work force unchanged • Resultant sharp decline in per capita real incomes of agriculture dependent population • Further compounded by high costs of cultivation (result of lack of economies of scale, high cost of wage labour)

6. Current Focus • Shift towards food grains production • Rice sanctuaries identified • Legislation enacted for conserving paddy lands • Targeted incentives for paddy cultivation • State food security programme • launched during 2007-08 • Allocation for 2009-2010: Rs.36 crores • Focus on enhancing production and productivity • Rice, vegetables, eggs, milk, and meat covered 5

7. Current Focus (continued) • Focus on enhancing returns from limited land holdings • Increased support for group and lease land farming • Popularizing cluster approach • Encouraging proper land management and adoption of POP • Raising supplementary crops like pulses, sesame, vegetables, tubers, groundnut in paddy fields • Subsidizing loans for small/marginal farmers 6

8. Current Focus (continued) • Shift towards mechanization • Custom Hiring Centers through local bodies • Centralized Agro Service Centers at the Panchayat level • Converging subsidies across schemes • Strengthening marketing • Procurement • Participatory marketing (Swasraya Vipani) • Establishment of small processing & marketing units .

9. Current Focus (continued) • Peasantry welfare a key focus • Debt relief • Remunerative procurement prices • Comprehensive insurance • Commodity Safety Net • Enhancing agricultural investment as a long term measure • Major areas – minor irrigation, strengthening of labs, market infrastructure, improving infrastructure for production of planting material and other inputs. 8

10. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

11. Targets and achievements for Rabi – 2008-09

12. Targets and likely achievements of Kharif 2009

13. Targets - Area and Production for Rabi 2009-10

14. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

15. OVERVIEW - NFSM • Implemented in one district in the State: Palakkad • Amount sanctioned – Rs. 347.15 lakhs • Amount received – Rs. 277.72 lakhs • Area to be covered in 2009-10 - 50,000 ha • Thirty percent increase in yield targeted Cont….

16. National Food Security Mission

17. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

18. Current Status • Amount released for 2007-08: Rs.55.0095 crores • Allocation for 2008-09: Rs.60.11 crores (Amount released Rs.30.06 crores) • Expenditure: • Rs.47.34 crores for 2007-08 • Rs.19.95 crores for 2008-09 • Allocation for 2009-10: Rs.109.10 crores • Releases for 2009-10: Rs. 45.79 crores • 2 SLSC meeting convened • Status of C-DAP preparation • Completed by all districts. Reviewed by Advisor to Planning Commission • Status of SAP • Under preparation. Will be completed by December 2009.

19. Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana 2008-09 Cont….

20. RKVY 2008-09 (continued)

21. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

22. Extension Interventions • Current focus • Strengthening of BTTs, FACs, FIACs • Improving quality of farm schools and demonstrations • Strengthening the research-extension interface • Institutionalizing pre- and post- season interface between farmers, development officials and researchers • Providing a platform for crystallizing localized research needs and a funding source for funding such research • Incentivizing adoption of good practices (rewards, assistance for adoption of practices, dissemination) • Sub-zoning of major agro-ecological zones • Comprehensive training of extension officials • Through SAMETI and KAU • Centre for e-learning

23. Profile of activities during 2009-10 (continued) • Farmers trained – 9503 nos • Exposure visit of farmers - 3534 nos • Kissan melas/field days/Ghosties • No. of farmers participated – 11340 • Demonstrations conducted – 1895 nos • FIGs/CIGs formed – 970 • Farm schools started – 56 • Extension personnel trained - 246

24. Expenditure details of ATMA

25. Activities of SAMETI Kerala • Technical Support Group (TSG) formed • No. of trainings at state level – 10 • No. of functionaries trained – 246 • Training schedule finalized for 2009-10 • Course curriculum designed • Training modules and methods finalized • Resource persons (including reserves) identified • Evaluation methodology finalized

26. Expenditure details of SAMETI

27. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

28. Seed availability – Kharif 2009 • RSGP implemented for Paddy and Vegetable seeds • RSGP (Paddy) : 3056 Qtls. • RSGP (Vegetable) : 25000 Kgs. • Certified seed requirement for Rabi 2009 – 80,000 qtls • Based on the targeted area of 2 lakh hectares • Seed Rate of 80 Kg/Ha and SRR of 50% • Certified seed available with Department of Agriculture for Rabi 2009 – 21229 qtls • Balance of 58771 qtls: from NSC/other Government approved agencies • Seed Village Programme: 50,000 Ha to be covered • Seed Infrastructure Proposal – Proposal for an amount of Rs. 932 lakhs has been sent to GOI for the implementation of Seed Village programme. Sanction received only for an amount of Rs. 506 lakhs.

29. Seed Treatment and Testing • Seed treatment campaigns extensively undertaken • To create awareness about treatment with carbendazim • Brochures and leaflets popularizing seed treatment • Popularization through electronic media (Krishideepam) • Training for farmers and extension functionaries - 14 • Targets for 2009-10: • 40,000 ha of paddy land to be sown with treated seeds • 3 Seed testing labs • Samples analyzed for 2009-10 – 1553 (up to 31-08-09)

30. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, Testing) • Best Practices

31. Requirement Vs. Allocation in Rabi 2009-10 30

32. Requirement in Rabi 2009-10 in terms of nutrients

33. Fertilizer Testing • Fertilizer Quality Control Laboratories – 2 • Annual analyzing capacity of fertilizers: 5000 • Fertilizer samples analyzed for 2009-10 : 1094 • Annual analyzing capacity of organic manure: 1000 • Organic manure samples analyzed for 2009-10: 75 • No. of micro nutrient samples analyzed: 112 32

34. Contents • Overview • Seasonal Targets, Achievements, Prospects • National Food Security Mission • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana • Extension Machinery • Seeds (Availability, Treatment, Testing) • Fertilizers (Availability, testing) • Best Practices

35. Innovative new initiatives by Government of Kerala • Kissan Abhiman – Pension scheme for paddy farmers • Pension scheme for farmers engaged in agriculture • Beneficiaries: Farmers who are engaged in agriculture for the past 10 years and depend on it as their sole source of livelihood • Should possess at least minimum 10 cents and maximum of 1 ha of paddy land • Presently given only for farmers engaged in paddy cultivation • Should be over 60 years of age • Pension @ Rs.300/month • An amount of Rs.25,000/- for the marriage of a daughter • Over 14,000 farmers enrolled presently • Family pension will be given to the dependent on the death of the farmer 34

36. Radio Kuttanad • Community Radio Station for Kuttanad region • Kuttanad: An ecologically fragile region in Central Kerala, known as its rice bowl • Traditional Agricultural practices have helped sustain the ecology of the area • However, costs of cultivation are high resulting in high peasantry distress • Radio Kuttanad attempts to address issues at the grassroots 35

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