agricultural development programmes

LIST OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM(IADP)•1960•To provide loan , seeds , fertilizer tools to the farmers.

INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE AREA PROGRAM (IAAP)•1964•To develop the special harvest.

HIGH YIELDING VARIETY PROGRAM (HYVP)•1966•To increase productivity of food grains by adopting latest varieties of inputs for crops.

MARGINAL FARMER AND AGRICULTURE LABOUR AGENCY (MFALA)•1973•For technical and financial assistance to marginal and small farmer and agricultural labor.

SMALL FARMER DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (SFDA)•1974•For technical and financial assistance to small farmers.

FARMER AGRICULTURE SERVICE CENTRES (FASC)•1983•To popularize the use of improved agricultural instruments and tool kits.

AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEBT RELIEF SCHEME (ARDRS)•1990•To exempt bank loans up to Rs. 10,000 of rural artisans and weaver.INTENSIVE COTTON DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (ICDP)•2000•To enhance the production, per unit area through (a) technology transfer, (b) supply of quality seeds, (c) elevating IPM activities/ and (d) providing adequate and timely supply of inputs to the farmers .NATIONAL PULSES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NPDP)•1986•To increase the production of pulses in the country to achieve self sufficiency.

IADP(1960)

package programme

assistance of Ford Foundation.

7 DISTRICTS

1. Thanjavur (TamilNadu)

2. West Godavari ( Andhra Pradesh)

3. Shahabad (Bihar)

4. Raipur (Madhya Pradesh)

5. Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh)

6. Ludhiana (Punjab)

7. Pali (Rajasthan)

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF DISTRICT

•Water supply•Not exposed to naturalhazards•Well developed cooperativecredit structure• Maximum potential to showincreased production withinthe shortest possible time

OBJECTIVES

• To achieve rapid increase in the level of agriculture production through a concentration of financial, technical, extension,and administrative resources

Achieve a self generating break through in productivity and to raise the production potential by stimulating the human and physical process of change

To demonstrate the most effective ways of increasing production and thus to provide lessons for Extending such intensified and agricultural production programmes to other areas

FEATURES OF IADP

•Factors of production were not

provide simultaneously, timely

and adequately

•Inputs were made available

100% of the requirement

• periodical training of

staff staff

OBJECTIVES

Followed the package approaches of use of improved methods

The use of interrelated factors of physical,social and institutional where also followed in a strategic combination mainly to produce an impact on agricultural production

HIGH YIELDING VARIETIES PROGRAMME-1966

•Punjab, Haryana and Western parts of UP were initially selected

•Later on it was extended to other areas also

•resulted in a substantial increase in foodgrains production.

OBJECTIVES OF HYVP

•Attaining self –sufficiency in food

•Technological development did not remain confined to the introduction of high yielding crop varieties-made green revolution possible

•Wheat production doubled, rice production had substantial increase

SFDA-Small farmer’s development agency

&MFALA- Marginal Farmer’s and Agricultural Labour’sAgency

SETTING UP OF SFDA

Depression of small cultivators highlighted by Rural credit enquiry committee(1969)

In the fourth plan two separate agencies of SFDA and MFALA was set up in selected districts as registered societies

MFALA was amalgamated with SFDA to form one unifiedCorporate body known as SFDA

To improve the income through productive activities and improving their existing ones. The following steps were taken:

Identification of target groups in selected districts

•By formulating viable agricultural / non-agricultural schemes for the target groups

•Provision of SUBSIDY at the rate of 25% and 33%of the total cost of an approved scheme to the selected beneficiaries

•Co-ordinate the various public sector agencies located in the area

•Promotion of common facilities of providing storage, marketing as well as strengthening co-operative institutions for providing credit

Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)(or)National agriculture development program(NADP)

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achieving 4% annual growth in the agriculture sector during the XI Plan period, by ensuring a holistic development of Agriculture and allied sectors.

OBJECTIVES•To incentivize the states that increase their investment in Agriculture and allied sectors •To provide flexibility and autonomy to the States in planning and executing programmes for agriculture

•To ensure the preparation of Agriculture Plans forthe districts and states

•To achieve the goal of reducing the yield gaps in important crops

•To maximize returns to the farmers •To address the agriculture and allied sectors in an integrated manner

State plan

scheme

preparation of the district and State Agriculture Plans is mandatory

The pattern of

funding is 100%

Central Government

Grant.

It will give high

levels of

flexibility to the

states

FEATURESOF RKVY

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION PROJECTLAUNCHED

CREDITED

Government of India

World bank

OPERATED

ICAR

COMPONENTS OF NAIP

•ICAR as the catalyzing agent for the management of change in the Indian NARS

•Research on production to consumption systems(PCS)

•Research on sustainable rural livelihood security and basic and strategic research in the frontier areas of agricultural sciences(BSR)

THE BASIC PRINCIPLES

• In other words, the agricultural research system should be able to support agriculture as a business venture and also as a means of security of livelihood of the rural Indian while maintaining excellence in science.

To make the National Agricultural Research System a 'pluralistic' system where every Organisation having stake in agricultural research: public, private or civil society, has to play a role.

Total Budget for the NAIP

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US $ 250 million

World Bank will fund US $ 200 million

Government of India will fund US $ 50 million