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Hon’ble President in 16 th Lok Sabha indicated that “Each drop of water is precious. Government is committed to giving high priority to water security. It will complete the long pending irrigation projects on priority and launch the ‘Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana’ with the motto of ‘Har Khet Ko ...

Objective: Organic agriculture is a production of agricultural products free from chemicals and pesticides residues by adopting eco friendly low cost technologies “Parampragat Krishi Vikas Yojana”is an elaborated component of Soil Health Management (SHM) of National Mission of Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA). Under PKVY, Organic farming is promoted through adoption of ...

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 ...

This component of NMSA (National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture) formulated in a ‘watershed plus framework’, i.e., to explore potential utilization of natural resources base/assets available/created through watershed development and soil conservation activities/interventions under MGNREGS, NWDPRA, RVP&FPR, RKVY, IWMP etc.. RAD under NMSA introduce appropriate farming systems by integrating multiple components ...

OFWM will focus primarily on enhancing water use efficiency by promoting efficient on-farm water management technologies and equipment. This will not only focus on application efficiency but, in conjunction with RAD component, also will emphasize on effective harvesting & management of rainwater. Assistance will be extended for adopting water conservation ...

Out of the 4 interventions under NMSA, Soil Health Management (SHM) is one of the most important intervention, SHM will aim at promoting location as well as crop specific sustainable soil health management including residue management, organic farming practices by way of creating and linking soil fertility maps with macro-micro ...

CCSAMMN, a component of NMSA will provide creation and bidirectional (land/farmers to research/scientific establishments and vice versa) dissemination of climate change related information and knowledge by way of piloting climate change adaptation/mitigation research/model projects in the domain of climate smart sustainable management practices and integrated farming system suitable to local ...

National Institute of Agriculture Extension Management (MANAGE) has designed a one-year diploma course titled ‘Diploma in Agricultural Extension Services for Input Dealers (DAESI)’, which imparts relevant and location-specific agricultural education to equip input dealers with sufficient knowledge to transform them into para-extension professionals so as to enable them to address ...

Introduction: “Skill Training of Rural Youth (STRY)”, aimed at imparting skill-based training to rural youth on agri-based vocational areas in compliance with National Policy on Skill Development & Entrepreneurship-2015 in agriculture & allied areas to promote employment in rural areas. Objectives: Offer modular skill training opportunities to rural youths including ...

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 ...