Agriculture

National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has been formulated for enhancing agricultural productivity especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management and synergizing resource conservation. Objectives: To make agriculture more productive, sustainable, remunerative and climate resilient by promoting location specific Integrated/Composite Farming Systems; To ...

Cotton, Jute and Sugarcane are amongst the main cash crops of India. These crops are grown in food crops sequences in different agro- climatic conditions. In the 12th Five Year Plan, under the NFSM, cropping system approach is being adopted by including commercial crops like cotton, jute and sugarcane to ...

‘National Food Security Mission’ (NFSM), a centrally sponsored scheme, was launched in October 2007 to increase the production of rice, wheet and pulses. The Mission is being continued during 12th Five Year Plan with the targets of additional production of food grains of 25 million tons of food grains comprising ...

Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) is to provide farmers with access to competitive markets with adequate infrastructure including cold chain logistics, to enable them to realise better prices on the one hand and providing nutritious food to consumers at stable and affordable prices on the other. Central Government has ...

Kisan Credit Card Scheme Kisan Credit Card scheme (KCC) is a short term loan scheme for farmers in India. The central government provides an adequate short-term affordable credit to farmers in a hassle free manner. This scheme particularly provides the farmers adequate, timely and cost-effective credit from banks for their ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the three-day ‘Krishi Unnati Mela’- the National Level Agriculture Fair-cum-Exhibition at the Pusa Campus of New Delhi. The prime focus of this mela or fair is to provide information on new farms, technologies and schemes/ policies of government including crop insurance scheme to ...

The state government of Andhra Pradesh is all set to train 1.5 lakh farmers in organic farming in the coming three years and the train farmers will be awarded with a certificate which will declare them as organic farmers. This training will facilitate the cultivators to sell their produce at ...

The union government today has finally given nod to the much awaited New Crop Insurance Scheme for the farmers to ensure that they pay less premium and get early benefits for their claims if crops get damaged. This move thus indicates the new elected government’s maiden move towards addressing the ...

A Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) has been launched for the holistic development of horticulture in the country during XII plan. The scheme integrates the ongoing schemes of National Horticulture Mission, Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan States, National Bamboo Mission, National Horticulture ...

The central government is going to launch a new Farm Crop Insurance Scheme by early 2016 which thus could indicate the new elected government’s maiden move towards the agrarian problem. The agricultural minister Mr. Radha Mohan Singh said that this new scheme will be more farmer friendly as the government ...