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Government of India
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
24-April-2015 13:00 IST
Promoting Organic Farming

 

Cultivated area under certified organic farming has grown almost 17 fold in last one decade (42,000 ha in 2003-04 to 7.23 lakh ha in 2013-14). Government of India has implemented the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) in the year 2001. The national programme involves the accreditation programme for certification agencies, norms for organic production, promotion of organic farming etc. States like; Uttaranchal, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim have been promoting organic farming. 

            Government is promoting organic farming through various schemes/ programmes under   National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)/ Paramapragat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), National Mission on Oilseeds & Oil Palm (NMOOP), Network Project on Organic Farming of ICAR. 

          In addition to this, Government is implementing  a Cluster based programme   to encourage the farmer for promoting organic farming called Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY):

 

v  Groups of farmers would be motivated to take up organic farming under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). Fifty or more farmers will form a cluster having 50 acre land to take up the organic farming under the scheme.

 

v  In this way during three years 10,000 clusters will be formed covering 5.0 lakh acre area under organic farming. There will be no liability on the farmers for expenditure on certification.

 

v  Every farmer will be provided Rs. 20,000 per acre in three years for seed to harvesting of crops and to transport produce to the market.

 

v  Organic farming will be promoted by using traditional resources and the organic products will be linked with the market.

 

v  It will increase domestic production and certification of organic produce by involving farmers

v  In order to implement the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana in Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana in the year 2015-16, an amount of Rs.300 crore has been allocated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 1 State wise Farm area (excluding Forest Area) under Organic Certification during 2013-14

 

S.No.

State Name

Organic Area (in Ha)

1

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

321.28

2

Andhra Pradesh

12325.03

3

Arunachal Pradesh

71.49

4

Assam

2828.26

5

Bihar

180.60

6

Chhattisgarh

4113.25

7

Delhi

0.83

8

Goa

12853.94

9

Gujarat

46863.89

10

Haryana

3835.78

11

Himachal Pradesh

4686.05

12

Jammu & Kashmir

10035.38

13

Jharkhand

762.30

14

Karnataka

30716.21

15

Kerala

15020.23

16

Lakshadweep

895.91

17

Madhya Pradesh

232887.36

18

Maharashtra

85536.66

19

Manipur

0

20

Meghalaya

373.13

21

Mizoram

0

22

Nagaland

5168.16

23

Odisha

49813.51

24

Pondicherry

2.84

25

Punjab

1534.39

26

Rajasthan

66020.35

27

Sikkim

60843.51

28

Tamil Nadu

3640.07

29

Tripura

203.56

30

Uttar Pradesh

44670.10

31

Uttaranchal

24739.46

32

West Bengal

2095.51

 

Total

723039.00

         Source: APEDA (2013-14)

 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture Sh.Mohanbhai Kundaria in Rajya Sabha today.

 

 

 

 

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