1. RABI CONFERENCE Dialogue with states SEPTEMBER 19TH & 20TH ,2017 SHC
PKVY
MOVCD
PMKSY
Dialogue with states

2. Soil Health Card Scheme
Target: 12 crore cards
Nearly 80% completed
States Lagging behind- UP , Punjab, Bihar, Assam , Manipur, J&K
To be completed by October
1st Cycle to
Target: 1.3 crore samples and 6 crore cards
Achievement: 50% collection & 5% testing
Soil testing labs in PPP
Installation of equipment like ICP
Cycle 2
1st year

3. SOIL TESTING PROJECTS AT VILLAGE LEVEL BY LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS
proposals from state governments End of September 2017
Release of Govt of India Share
October, 2017
Entrepreneurs to procure equipment by November
Employment generation &improvement in soil testing facilities
Village level entrepreneur
Max cost Rs 5 lakhs
Preference to Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)
75% subsidy, 60:40
25% cost by entrepreneur

4. SHC- Phase ll Responsibility of States work in progress at GoI
SHC is beyond numbers
Inculcating the habit of soil testing among farmers- wide publicity needed
Aadhar number of farmers mandatory
Entry on web portals
Soil testing pre-requisite for getting subsidy
Distribution of fertilisers based on SHC recommendation
Fertiliser demand based on Soil testing results
Information on dialects and area units
District Soil nutrient maps
Publicity campaign
Development of handheld devices for soil testing
Customised fertilisers for 100 districts

5. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana
Flexibility in guidelines
Future Action Required
Cluster size: upto hac
Planning: proposal in project mode with entire value chain
Freedom to choose from Bouquet of activities
Promotion of indigenous practices on case to case basis
Need based inter componential changes
Dovetailing with PMEGS of MSME for value addition
Target ( by 2020) : 10 lakh hac
Proposals by mid Oct, 2017
All the clusters in same year
Value chain dev. For old clusters

6. Mission Organic value Chain Development
New guidelines for post harvest management
Expectations from states
Completion of FPO registration
Focus on 4-5 commodities/ crops
Assessment of produce for marketing
Value addition &marketing
Training
Technical support
Fund release
facilitation
Marketing
Facilitation of food processing units
Subsidy distribution
Handholding to FPOs
NEDFI
NERAMAC
IIFTP
GoI &States

7. Organic farming Regulations
Certification& Regulations
PKVY: Marketing- PGS- India Green (after 1st year )/ PGS –India Organic
MOVCD: Third party certification
Food Safety and Standards (Organic Foods) Regulations, 2017-

8. Prime Minister Krishi Sinchai Yojana-Micro Irrigation
year
Allocation
(Rs in Crores)
Release
Area covered under micro irrigation( in lakh hac)
target
Achievement
1550
100% 5
5.72
1990 8
8.4
3400
1459 12
2.5
Stagnation in last 2 months
States to resolve GST issues : Andhra Pradesh
GoI in dialogue with GST council

9. Micro Irrigation Fund States to be ready with the proposals by October
EFC under consideration
Approvals by Octobers
Loans in RIDF pattern from NABARD
Interest subvention 3%; state to pay 5% interest
MoU between states, GoI, NABARD
States to be ready with the proposals by October

10. PMKSY- Ned of the hour Geotagging on Bhuvan platform
10 million hac to be covered by
Target of 1.2 million hac
2.4 lakh ha coverage in last 5 months
Geotagging on Bhuvan platform
MIS entry/ integration of state MIS with National portal
Promotion of fertigation along with Micro irrigation

11. Micro irrigation-other interventions
Unspent balances –released to rural developmrnt Dept- MP, Mah, Jhar, Punjab,UP,Har, GuJ
To facilitate DBT, states to adopt LG codes and get transferred to central portal
Timely MIS reports and geotagging
Crop planning in command areas of irrigation projects as per directions of PMO
Linking activities with DIP
Synchronising water sources with micro irrigation systems

12. General Observations Need for more communication
Participation of senior officers in the review meetings
Mechanism for release of state share in time
Major schemes review at state level
UCs- physical , financial progress and state share

13. THANK YOU