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PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI
SINCHAI YOJANA
Commencement 2015-2016 Scheme
Increased water access to
farm fields with high water
use efficiency
Objective: Increased water
access to farm fields with
high water use efficiency
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai
Yojana started in 2015-16 as an
umbrella scheme. It also includes
Accelerated Irrigation Benefits
Programme, Har Khet Ko Pani, Per
Drop More Crop, and Watershed
Development components. Three Progress
ministries work on these issues
for its successful implementation.
PMKSY was valid till March
2021. Now with an expenditure
of Rs 93 thousand crores, it has
been extended from 2021-2022
to 2025-2026, in which the new
target is to create about 20 lakh
hectares of agricultural irrigation
potential.
Under this, work was started
in 2016-2017 to complete 99
big projects of the Accelerated
Irrigation Benefits Program on
mission mode with an expenditure
of Rs 78 thousand crores of which
46 projects have been completed.
In the scheme, data till March
2021 shows that an additional
irrigation potential of
50.64
lakh hectares of land has been
created.
Commencement June 2021
Promoting Nano Urea
India is the first country to
Scheme commercially produce Nano Urea
Objective: In addition to moving towards
making the country self-reliant in the matter
of fertilizers, increasing the yield and
reducing the expenditure on fertilizers.
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FORMATION OF 10 THOUSAND FARMER
PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS (FPOS): Inclusion
of small, marginal, and landless farmers in FPOs
to increase their economic strength and market
connectivity to augment their income. The FPOs
will be supported for 5 years. Till April 2022,
2315 FPOs have been registered, to which the
government has released Rs 410 Crore.
SOIL HEALTH MANAGEMENT: To develop and
promote soil test-based nutrient management.
More than 5.67 crore farmers benefited from
this scheme from 2018-2019 to 2020-2021.
So far more than 22.19 crore cards have been
made and distributed to farmers till April 19,
2022.
PM KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA was launched
on 3 May 2015 with an estimated expenditure of
Rs 6 thousand crores. Now it has been extended
to 2025-2026 with an additional expenditure
of Rs 4600 crores. Under it, 1088 projects
including Mega Food Park, Mini Food Park, and
Food Testing Laboratories have been approved.
Nearly Rs 49.91 crore was paid to the states
during 2020-2021 under natural farming.
The Government of India aims to bring an
area of 3.50 lakh hectares under natural
farming by 2025.
Through the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, the
government is promoting innovation and agri-
entrepreneurship by providing financial assistance
and nurturing the incubation ecosystem. Under
this scheme, Rs 50.90 crore was paid to 923
startups.
Progress
Nano Urea has been developed by IFFCO. It was
tested by the Agricultural Research Institute and
state agricultural universities on paddy, wheat,
mustard, maize, tomato, cabbage, capsicum, and
onion, and found that it increased the yield and
saved up to 50 percent of fertilizer. At present,
one lakh bottles of Nano Liquid Urea are being
produced per day.