To advertise pure farming throughout the nation, the Centre has launched the Nationwide Mission on Pure Farming (NMNF) by upscaling the Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP) scheme.
“So as to contain extra farmers and improve the attain of pure farming on a bigger scale, the Authorities has formulated Nationwide Mission on Pure Farming (NMNF) by upscaling the Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP) to advertise pure farming throughout the nation. NMNF will cowl 7.5 lakh hectare space by growing 15,000 clusters within the subsequent 4 years with a complete finances outlay of ₹1,584 crore (Centre’s share),” Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed the Lok Sabha on March 14.
With NMNF, the federal government proposes to the touch one crore farmers alongside the Ganga belt and in different rainfed elements of the nation, he added.
Below NMNF, farmers will obtain a monetary help of ₹15,000 per hectare per yr for 3 years for the creation of on-farm enter manufacturing infrastructure. The operational tips state that incentives can be offered to farmers solely after they decide to pure farming and have really taken it up. If a farmer defaults or doesn’t proceed with pure farming, subsequent instalments shall not be disbursed.
The BPKP, a sub-scheme underneath Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), had offered monetary help of ₹12,200 per hectare for 3 years for cluster formation, capability constructing and steady hand-holding. Moreover, an help of ₹8,800 per hectare for 3 years was allowed from PKVY funds for advertising and marketing, worth addition and publicity of pure farming merchandise.
The NMNF tips say that farmers prepared to implement pure farming on their subject will likely be registered as cluster members — every cluster shall comprise 50 farmers or extra with 50 hectare land. Additionally, every cluster can fall in a single village or unfold throughout 2-3 close by villages underneath the identical gram panchayat.
Grasp trainers
Tomar additionally mentioned that an online portal (naturalfarming.dac.gov.in) has been launched for the promotion of pure farming with info on the implementation framework, assets, implementation progress, farmer’s registration, weblog, and so forth. The agriculture ministry is enterprise large-scale coaching of grasp trainers, ‘champion’ farmers and practising farmers within the methods of pure farming via the Nationwide Institute of Agricultural Extension Administration (MANAGE) and Nationwide Centre of Natural and Pure Farming (NCONF), he mentioned. Already 997 coaching programmes have been carried out, protecting 56,952 gram pradhans, he added.
The minister additional mentioned that the Centre intends to arrange 15,000 Bhartiya Prakritik Kheti Bio-inputs Sources Centres (BRCs) to offer easy accessibility to bio-resources like Jeevamrit, Ghana Jeevamrit and neemastra, whereby cow dung and urine, neem and bioculture play an vital position. At a latest assembly with Niti Aayog, representatives of cow shelters needed their models to be designated as BRCs as they kind the spine of the worth chain within the manufacturing and distribution of bio fertilisers.
These bio-input useful resource centres can be arrange alongside the proposed 15,000 mannequin clusters of pure farming. These BRCs would create a national-level distribution community for micro-fertilisers and pesticides, with every BRC accountable for one cluster underneath NMNF.
