Status Review of National Food Security Mission

General Council Meeting under the Chairmanship of Agriculture Minister scheduled on 18th January,2011

Mukesh Khullar; Mission Director, National Food Security Mission

Status Summary NFSM is on track to deliver 20 million tons of food

grains by 2012− Rice from 94 to 104 MT− Wheat from 76 to 84 MT− Pulses from 14.2 to 16.5 MT

An amount of Rs. 3500 crores spent so far; budget for remaining amount 1385 crores submitted

Partnerships with Institutions and Programs for sustaining the efforts− International - IRRI, ICRISAT, ICARDA− National - NCIPM, IIPR, CRRI, DWR, NABARD− Programs – STRASA, MMA, RKVY, MGNREGS, MSP

NFSM Rice

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

Demand 90.91 92.87 94.83 96.81 98.79

Target 94.35 96.35 98.35 100.35 103.35

Achievement 93.35 96.69 99.18 89.31 95.00*

In million tons

NFSM Wheat

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

Demand 71.19 72.72 74.26 75.8 77.36

Target 77.8 78.8 79.8 81.8 83.8

Achievement 75.81 78.57 80.68 80.98 82.00*

In million tons

NFSM Pulses

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

Demand 16.77 17.51 18.29 19.08 19.91

Target 14.7 15.2 15.4 15.7 16.2

Achievement

14.20 14.76 14.57 14.77 16.50*

In million tons

Fund Releases Rs in Crores

Crop Year Total

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11*RE 1277 cr

Rice 84.95 363.77 313.51 236.67 998.9

Wheat 208.19 232.23 317.98 221.66 980.06

Pulses 105.59 287.29 387.67 546.29 1326.84

Total 398.73 883.29 1019.16 1004.62 3305.8

Total Plan outlay 4882 crores

Progress Increase in Seed Replacement Rate

− Stress tolerant varieties for rice and terminal heat tolerant wheat varieties promoted

Soil health improvement− Soil amendments and promotion of Micro nutrients

especially for rice and pulses crops

Large scale demonstrations and Farmers’ Field Schools− Accelerated Pulses Production Program

Pest surveillance and monitoring

− Involvement of CBOs through NABARD

Diesel pumpsets and Sprinklers to supplement the works under MGNREGS, RKVY and IWMP

% increase in input consumption from 07-08 to 09-10

Crop Seeds INM IPM Farm machinery

Rice 17-55 43-75 54-97 22-100

Wheat 53-82 21-82 - 53-100

Pulses 69-63 (100% in 08-09)

36-66 61-97 0-100

Significant outputs up to 31/3/10

Output Area covered (approx.)

Farmers benefited (approx.)

3 .8 lakh demonstrations 1.4 lakh ha 3.8 lakh farmers

85.8 lakh qtls of HYV rice, wheat, pulses distributed

110 lakh ha 73.3 lakh farmers

Nearly 17000 qtls of hybrid rice distributed

0.4 lakh ha 0.2 lakh farmers

Nearly 66 lakh hac treated with gypsum/lime/micronutrients

66 lakh ha 44 lakh farmers

26 lakh ha of farm land treated under Integrated Pest Management

26 lakh ha 17.3 lakh farmers

15.3 lakh farm implements distributed 15.3 lakh farmers

Capacity building of the farmers through nearly 28000 Farmers Field Schools

8.4 lakh farmers

Attention Areas Technical

− Improve Seed multiplication rates for production of seeds of pulses and hybrid rice and hybrid pigeon pea

− Develop better Pest and Disease tolerance of pulses especially of kharif pulses – black gram

− Appropriate zero till seed drills for heavy soils in rainfed areas and other machines for harvesting, threshing and drying of paddy in small land holdings

− Standardizing innovative farm practices e.g. dibbling, nipping and drip irrigation for pigeon pea crops

− Developing shorter duration pulses crops esp pigeon pea which can also be harvested with machines

Administrative− Business model for promotion of custom hiring of farm

machinery to small and marginal farmers for line sowing, ridge making, spraying of pesticides

− Reducing policy-implementation gap Capacity building of stakeholders

Mission capacity Responsive

− Direct Fund Flow to districts− Dedicated Project management Teams− General Council empowered to make suitable changes

from time to time

Flexibilty− ATMA can engage with CBOs and Private sector− Pilot Projects through Agencies to draw lessons for

program formulation− Scope for innovations under local initiatives

Convergence− Initiative on development of Eastern India rice base cropping

system− Initiative on development of rainfed agriculture in 60,000

pulses and oilseeds villages− Proposed initiative on Millets development

Sum Up Mission is at the centre of the policies for

augmenting food grains production

With the clear mandate and empowered decision making, the mission activities are being steered to achieve the desired objectives

Pulses promotion was pumped up this year and the results are encouraging

Institutional support is being enlisted to sustain high production level

Implementation capacity is being enlarged for deeper reach and improved quality of service delivery