Agriculture
MP: SB:CP: subsidy (6.9.2011) (Release ID :75658)
- Us Launches New Mobile Project For Farmers, Fishermen In Kpk
The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new pilot project to introduce mobile enabled advisory and financial services for peach and potato farmers and fishermen in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As a result...
- Organic Food Production Doubled
Organic food production in the country more than doubled to 3.8 million tonne in 2010-11, even as the area under the chemicals-free cultivation shrank. Area under organic farming declined 3% to 4.42 million hectares in last fiscal, official data showed....
- Government Implementing R&d Scheme For Stringent Quality And Hygiene Norms In Food Processing Sector
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing Scheme of Research and Development and Quality Control to enable adherence to stringent quality and hygiene norms to face global competition and export. The Ministry is also providing financial...
- Skill Development Projects To Help Poor Rural Youth
The Union Ministry of Rural Development has sanctioned 148 placement linked skill development projects covering more than 400 districts in the country so far. Under the Special Project component of Swaranjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY)/National Rural...
- Integrated Cereals Development Programme
The Central Government is implementing Integrated Cereals Development Programme-wheat. It is part of a centrally sponsored scheme ?Revised Macro Management of Agriculture? under the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation for enhancement of agriculture...
Agriculture
Subsidy on Organic Fertilisers
The Government is providing financial assistance for organic manure under the following schemes to States / UTs -
(i) Under National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF) financial assistance is provided as credit linked back ended subsidy through NABARD for setting up of fruit/vegetable waste / agro-waste compost unit @ 33% of the total cost of project upto Rs.60.00 lakh per unit and @ 25% of the total cost of project up to Rs.40.00 lakh per unit of bio-fertilizer / bio-pesticides production units.
(ii) Under National Horticulture Mission (NHM) financial assistance is provided for setting up vermicompost production units @ 50% of the cost subject to a maximum of Rs.30,000/- per beneficiary.
(iii) Under National Project on Management of Soil Health and Fertility (NPMSHF) there is provision for subsidy on promotion of organic fertilizer upto Rs.500/- per hectare.
(iv) Assistance is also available for organic fertilizers under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY).
This information was given by Shri Harish Rawat, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
- Us Launches New Mobile Project For Farmers, Fishermen In Kpk
The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new pilot project to introduce mobile enabled advisory and financial services for peach and potato farmers and fishermen in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As a result...
- Organic Food Production Doubled
Organic food production in the country more than doubled to 3.8 million tonne in 2010-11, even as the area under the chemicals-free cultivation shrank. Area under organic farming declined 3% to 4.42 million hectares in last fiscal, official data showed....
- Government Implementing R&d Scheme For Stringent Quality And Hygiene Norms In Food Processing Sector
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing Scheme of Research and Development and Quality Control to enable adherence to stringent quality and hygiene norms to face global competition and export. The Ministry is also providing financial...
- Skill Development Projects To Help Poor Rural Youth
The Union Ministry of Rural Development has sanctioned 148 placement linked skill development projects covering more than 400 districts in the country so far. Under the Special Project component of Swaranjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY)/National Rural...
- Integrated Cereals Development Programme
The Central Government is implementing Integrated Cereals Development Programme-wheat. It is part of a centrally sponsored scheme ?Revised Macro Management of Agriculture? under the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation for enhancement of agriculture...