Government has been promoting organic farming in the country since 2015-16 through the schemes of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) and Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER). Both the schemes stress on end to end support to farmers engaged in organic farming i.e. from production to processing, certification and marketing and post harvest management support including processing. PKVY is being implemented in all the States other-than North Eastern States, across the country. MOVCDNER scheme is implemented exclusively in the NE States.     

Under PKVY, farmers of various states of the country are provided financial assistance of Rs 50000/ha for 3 years whereas under MOVCDNER, an assistance of Rs. 46,575/ha for 3years is provided for creation of FPO, support to farmers for organic inputs, quality seeds/ planting material and training, hand holding and certification.

Since 2015-16, an area of 11.85 lakh ha has been brought under organic farming through PKVY scheme and Government also intends to another 6.00 lakh ha area to organic through PKVY during the period from 2022-23 to 2025-26.

The State-wise details of area under organic farming reported under National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) during 2014-15 is given at Annexure- I. PKVY scheme for organic farming was launched in 2015-16 and state-wise and year-wise details of area added to organic farming through PKVY scheme since 2015-16 is at Annexure-II.

Under PKVY, farmers of various states of the country are provided financial assistance of Rs 50000/ha for 3 years out of which, Rs 31000/ ha / 3 years is provided directly to farmers through DBT for on-farm and off-farm organic inputs. Financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh/ cluster of 1000 ha for 3 years are provided for value addition and infrastructure creation. Under the scheme assistance is provided @ Rs 7500/ha for 3 years for training and capacity building whereas, Apart from this, Rs 2700/ha for 3 years is provided for certification and residual analysis.

Under MOVCDNER, there is provision of financial assistance of Rs 10000/ha for 3 years for training, handholding and ICS documentation and farmers are provided assistance @ Rs 32500/ ha for 3 years for off farm /on –farm organic inputs. Under the scheme need based assistance is provided for various component namely Integrated Processing unit @ Rs. 600 lakh, Collection, aggregation and grading unit @ Rs. 10.00 lakh, Integrated Pack house @ Rs 37.50 lakh, Refrigerated vehicle @ Rs 18.75 lakh, Pre-cooling, cold stores, ripening chambers @ 18.75 lakh and Transportation / 4 wheeler @ Rs 6.00 lakh.

 

Annexure-I

The State-wise details of area under organic farming during 2014-15 reported under NPOP

 

S. No.	State	Area in ha
	Andaman & Nicobar	0.00
	Andhra Pradesh	25248.17
	Arunachal Pradesh	1478.99
	Assam	2719.72
	Bihar	0.00
	Chhattisgarh	1990.04
	Goa	11040.95
	Gujarat	30092.51
	Haryana	5177.75
	Himachal Pradesh	10887.41
	Jammu & Kashmir	19090.78
	Jharkhand	2293.14
	Karnataka	45082.88
	Kerala	22827.93
	Lakshadweep	1791.43
	Madhya Pradesh	215626.65
	Maharashtra	97218.29
	Manipur	155.70
	Meghalaya	1750.14
	Mizoram	550.44
	Nagaland	6904.26
	Delhi	60.06
	Odisha	45067.80
	Pondicherry	5.67
	Punjab	1450.72
	Rajasthan	73842.83
	Sikkim	115665.01
	Tamil Nadu	4413.13
	Telangana	0.00
	Tripura	0.00
	Uttar Pradesh	51722.52
	Uttarakhand	38543.27
	West Bengal	2743.51
	Total	835441.70

Source: APEDA

Annexure- II

State-wise and year-wise details of area added to organic farming through PKVY scheme since 2015-16.

S. No	State	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
1	Andaman & Nicobar	1360	1360	1360	1360	1360	1360	1360
2	Andhra Pradesh	8660	8660	26000	106000	106000	206000	206000
3	Arunachal Pradesh	380	380	380	380	380	380	380
4	Assam	4400	4400	4400	4400	4400	4400	4400
5	Bihar	6540	6540	10600	10600	10600	24600	24600
6	Chhattisgarh	3760	3760	4000	24000	24000	109000	109000
7	Goa	80	80	80	10080	10080	10080	10080
8	Gujarat	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000
9	Haryana	400	400	400	400	400	400	400
10	Himachal Pradesh	2200	2200	4200	4200	5700	17700	17700
11	Jammu & Kashmir	560	560	560	560	560	560	560
12	Jharkhand	2000	2000	5540	5540	5540	8940	23940
13	Karnataka	10900	10900	10900	10900	20900	20900	20900
14	Kerala	2380	2380	12380	12380	12380	96380	96380
15	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	2700	2700	2700	2700
16	Madhya Pradesh	17600	17600	27600	76560	76560	175560	175560
17	Maharashtra	18640	18640	25160	25160	25160	25160	32160
18	Manipur	600	600	600	600	600	600	600
19	Meghalaya	900	900	900	900	900	900	900
20	Mizoram	680	680	680	680	680	680	680
21	Nagaland	480	480	480	480	480	480	480
22	Delhi	0	0	10000	10000	10000	10000	10000
23	Odisha	6400	6400	6400	20800	20800	44800	44800
24	Pondicherry	0	0	160	160	160	160	160
25	Punjab	1000	1000	5000	5000	5000	5000	7000
26	Rajasthan	15100	15100	23000	123000	123000	123000	123000
27	Sikkim	3000	3000	3000	3000	3000	3000	3000
28	Tamil Nadu	2240	2240	2240	6240	6240	8240	8240
29	Telangana	6000	6000	13800	13800	13800	13800	13800
30	Tripura	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
31	Uttar Pradesh	11500	11500	18800	32800	42800	78580	78580
32	Uttarakhand	11000	11000	12540	90540	90540	140540	140540
33	West Bengal	2400	2400	2400	2400	2400	2400	2400
34	Daman & Diu	0	0	1100	1100	1100	1100	1100
35	Dadar Nagar	0	0	10000	10000	10000	10000	10000
36	Chandigarh	0	0	0	1300	1300	1300	1300
37	Ladakh	0	0	0	0	0	0	10000
	Total	144160	144160	247660	621020	642520	1151700	1185700

Cumulative state-wise year under PKVY since 2015-16

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

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