Doubling Farmers’ Income Through Export

The Government of India has taken various steps to increase the income of farmers in which enhancement of agri exports is also one of the focused actions. Agriculture exports help farmers to take advantage of wider international market which translates into increased income of the farmers.

The Government has adopted several developmental programmes, schemes, reforms and policies that focus on higher incomes for the farmers. All these policies & programmes are being supported by higher budgetary allocations, non-budgetary financial resources by way of creating Corpus Funds like Micro Irrigation Fund and Agri-marketing Fund, Promotion of 10,000 FPOs, Pradhan Mantri Krishi SinchaiYojna (PMKSY), Implementation of National Bee Keeping Honey Mission (NBHM), Interest Subvention Scheme by providing Kisan Credit Card (KCC), Electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) etc. Also, Agri infrastructure fund of Rupees one lakh crore has been setup for post-harvest infrastructure.

In the year 2020, India has become the ninth largest exporter of agricultural products in the world.

 (Values in Rs Crore)

 The State wise details of agricultural export during last three years are annexed.

(Values in Rs Crore)

This information was given by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

The State-wise and year-wise details of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and the percentage share of Andhra Pradesh in the total production of CPO during last five years is given at Annexure-I.

As per ICAR-IIOPR, Oil Palm requires less water compared to crops like Rice, Banana and

Sugarcane for its optimum cultivation. Under the National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), emphasis has been given to promote micro irrigation and water conservation in oil palm for efficient water management and judicious use of water.

Oil Palm is not covered under One District One Product (ODOP) scheme.

The State-wise and year-wise details of Crude Palm Oil during last five years from 2016-17 to 2020-21

(Quantity in Metric Tons)

This information was given by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

Importance of Crop Diversification for Resolving Water Crisis

Agriculture sector is a major user of water in the country.  The Crop Diversification Programme (CDP) implemented by Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) is mainly directed to diversify paddy area in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh.  Presently, the production of rice is surplus and the surplus production of rice is exported without affecting food security.  Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare launched CDP in 2013-14.  CDP is being implemented in the districts having more than 50 thousand hectare area under paddy crop in these states.  The major interventions under CDP are; alternate crop demonstrations, farm mechanization and value addition, site specific activities & contingency for awareness, training, implementation, monitoring etc.  Allocation of funds to states to divert paddy crop under CDP during last 5 years is as under:-

This information was given by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.