Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India and Development of 60,000 villages

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Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern
IndiaandDevelopment of 60,000 villages

• Continuing with a different approach

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Rice Area affected by different stresses in
eastern India (lakh ha)
  States   Flash Flood prone   Drought Prone Salinity/Sodicity Salinity/Sodicity
  States   Flash Flood prone   Drought Prone Coastal Inland
Assam 8.0 2 Nil Nil
Bihar 11.0 10 Nil 1.5
Jharkhand Nil 8.2 Nil Nil
Chhattisgrah Nil 27.3 Nil Nil
Orissa 11.6 12.6 1.5 Nil
U.P 9.3 13.1 Nil 6
West Bengal 10.3 14.6 4.4 Nil
Total Region 50.2 87.8 5.9 7.5
Total Rice 74 138.2 9.6 20.4
2/3rd 2/3rd 2/3rd 1/3rd
Rainfed rice production is low and unstable
mainly due to abiotic stresses
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Strategy

• Promote stress tolerant varieties
• Submergence tolerant
• Swarna-Sub1 Assam, UP, Bihar, WB, Orissa
• Samba Mahsuri-Sub1 UP,
• IR 64-Sub1 UP, Orissa, WB
• Drought tolerant
• Sahbhagi dhan UP, Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and
  Chhatishgarh
• Salinity tolerant
• CSR-36 UP Bihar
• Promote recommended package of practices suitable
  for different rice ecologies
• Upland rice
• Rainfed Low land rice
• Rainfed Deep water rice
• Irrigated rice

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Program

• Technology promotion in compact blocks of 1000
  hectares
• Rice ecology specific technologies
• Emphasis on line sowing/transplantation, land
  preparation
• Hybrid rice promotion
• Promotion of resource conservation technologies
  for wheat crop
• Involvement of Progressive farmers
• Asset building
• Water source development
• Shallow tube wells
• Borewells and dugwells
• Water pump sets
• Zero till seed drills
• Site specific local needs
• Priority to Non NFSM Districts

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Financial allocation
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Target demonstration units
Rainfed Low land Rice Rainfed Low land Rice Rainfed Low land Rice Irrigated Rice Irrigated Rice
State Rainfed Upland rice Shallow Low land Rice Medium Water Rice Deep Water Rice HYV Hybrid Rice Total Rice Wheat
Assam 5 7 6 4 2 2 26  
Bihar 2 10 4 5 9 5 35 22
Chhattisgarh 7 26 0 0 5 3 41  
Jharkhand 4 5 0 0 3 2 14  
Orissa 8 12 10 1 8 5 44  
Eastern UP 3 6 5 2 22 13 51 97
West Bengal 7 12 12 2 15 10 58 3
Total 36 78 37 14 64 40 269 122
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Physical Targets
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Technology components - CRRI
Activity Rainfed Upland Rice Rainfed Low land rice Rainfed Low land rice Rainfed Low land rice Irrigated Rice Irrigated Rice
Activity Rainfed Upland Rice Rainfed Low land rice Rainfed Low land rice Rainfed Low land rice Traditional Hybrid Rice
Activity Rainfed Upland Rice Shallow Lowland (0-15cm) Medium Deep Water (25-50 cm) Deep Water (50-100cm)
Deep Ploughing and Land Preparation 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500
Seed 2000 2000 2000 2000 1000 2000
Direct Seeding (Line sowing by drum seeder) /Transplanting/seed drills 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500
Seed Treatment 120 120 105 105 60 25
Zinc 875 875 875 875 875 875
Boron 275 275 275 275 275 275
Weed management 640 640 640 0 640 640
Plant Protection 700 700 700 700 700 700
Honorarium Staff 1 per unit _at_ 1000/month6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Mobility Staff 6 6 6 6 6 6
Honorarium Farmer 10 per unit as above 60 60 60 60 60 60
Mobility Farmer 60 60 60 60 60 60
Provision of Drum Seeder 70 70 70 70 70 70
Travel cost for KVK scientist/State officials/GOI officers. 100 100 100 100 100 100
Total 7912 7912 7897 7257 6852 7817
Due importance to administration of programs for
quality outcome
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Technology components of wheat units
Activity Cost per hectare (Rs.) Remarks
Provision of seed 2000 Seed Rate of 100kg/ha
Sowing Operation 1000 On Custom Hiring Basis
Seed Treatment and 150 Raxil/Vitavex/Bavistin as per recommendations of SAU/ICAR
Weedicide 618 Isoproton or any other weeicide as per recommendations of SAU
Staff cost/Hand Holding Staff cost/Hand Holding One staff for 1000 ha and he will be paid Rs.1000 as honorarium and Rs.1000 per month for Mobility for a period of six months . It comes out to be Rs. 12 per ha for one staff for one paddy season
Honorarium 6 One staff for 1000 ha and he will be paid Rs.1000 as honorarium and Rs.1000 per month for Mobility for a period of six months . It comes out to be Rs. 12 per ha for one staff for one paddy season
Mobility 6 One staff for 1000 ha and he will be paid Rs.1000 as honorarium and Rs.1000 per month for Mobility for a period of six months . It comes out to be Rs. 12 per ha for one staff for one paddy season
Progressive farmers Progressive farmers Progressive Farmer Cost One progressive farmer for every 100 hectare will be paid Rs 1000 as honorarium and Rs.1000 per month for Mobility for a period of six months . It comes out to be Rs. 120 per ha for one farmer for one paddy season
Honorarium 60 Progressive Farmer Cost One progressive farmer for every 100 hectare will be paid Rs 1000 as honorarium and Rs.1000 per month for Mobility for a period of six months . It comes out to be Rs. 120 per ha for one farmer for one paddy season
Mobility 60 Progressive Farmer Cost One progressive farmer for every 100 hectare will be paid Rs 1000 as honorarium and Rs.1000 per month for Mobility for a period of six months . It comes out to be Rs. 120 per ha for one farmer for one paddy season
Travel cost for KVK scientist/State officials/GOI officers 100 For meeting the POL/TA/DA of KVK Scientists
Total 4000
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Timelines for Kharif Season
Activity April May June
Preparation of District wise and Component wise Action Plan including site specific activities 25th Mar to 6th Apr
Identification of village clusters and Beneficiaries 1st to 20th - -
Identification of Progressive Farmers 10th Apr
Land preparation and deep ploughing work planning 20th Apr
Supply tie ups for seeds, farm machines, nutrients, seed treatment material and plant protection chemicals 27th
Approval of Action Plan by SLSCs 15th to 30th Apr
Release of 1st installment of allocated funds to States 15th May
Execution of pre sowing works 1st May to 30th June 1st May to 30th June
Pre positioning of the inputs planned 15th June
Work plan by CRRI for monitoring of components 15th Apr
Planning for mobility of the KVK and ATMA officials 30th Apr
SLMT Meeting 28th 30th 30th
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Important Milestones
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Development of 60,000 pulses villages in rainfed
areas

• Bouquet of programs

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Program

• Farm pond construction
• New Farm ponds
• Plastic Lining of old farm ponds
• Additional A3P units
• More units of same five crops
• New pulses crops
• Institutional Development
• SFAC led creation of farmer producer organization

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Targets

• Physical

• Financial

• 15000 new Farm Ponds
• Plastic lining for 15000 Farm ponds
• 174 additional units of A3P
• e pest surveillance through Master Trainers,
  Assigned Staff, Scout Farmers
• 150 Farmer Producer Organizations

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Farm pond program

• Financial norms of NHM
• Farm pond size as per technical estimates and the
  subsidy amount to be utilized
• Plastic lining at 50 of the cost subject to
  ceiling of 20,000 rupees
• 30 of the total number of constructions to be
  completed by June 2011
• Cluster approach suggested
• For ease of mobilization machinery
• For creating visible impact
• Procedure illustrated in model guidelines as
  experienced in Maharashtra
• Plastic lining only as per the technical advice
• Payment of construction and laying of plastic
  lining to be made to farmers directly

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A3P units

• Seed minikits and other critical inputs to be
  supplied by the States
• Static pest surveillance by the progressive
  farmers on 2 to 3 fields
• Training through NCIPM to the Master Trainers and
  in turn to the assigned agriculture officers
• Honoraria to the progressive farmer and the
  agriculture officer interacting weekly with the
  progressive farmer
• Mobility charges to be paid only after getting
  data sheets and the digital images of the crop
  health

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Timelines for Kharif season
Activity April May June
Preparation of District wise, component wise Action Plan 20th March to 6th April
Village beneficiary Identification for all Interventions 1st to 20th April - -
Outsourcing of work executing agency 2nd to 20th April
Execution of the farm pond including lining 10th May to 30th June 10th May to 30th June
Finalization of Suppliers of Agricultural Inputs and destination/location specific plan 1st to 15th
Pre-positioning of gypsum, micro-nutrients, Rhizobium culture, PSB, fungicides for seed treatment 1st to 10th
Pre-positioning of minikits of pigeon pea 15th to 20th April
Prepositioning of minkits of Moong Blackgram 20th to 25th
Approval of Action Plan by SLSC 15th to 30th April
Release of funds to states 1st -15th
Release of 1st Installment (50) to beneficiary 10th May to 30th June 10th May to 30th June
Monitoring of Works by State 15th to 20th 20th to 25th
Release of final installment for completed works 25th to 30th June 25th to 30th June
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Important milestones
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Farmer producer organizations

• MD, SFAC to present

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To conclude

• Programs are focused on achieving exact physical
  deliverables
• Involvement of KVKs, ICAR Scientists, CRRI and
  SAU scientists ensured for better monitoring
• Need to designate senior officer in the State
  Directorates for exclusive attention
• Key messages Plan well, Forge Partnerships,
  Assign Responsibility, Monitor closely, Leave
  rest to the Nature

Time to stretch ourselves..
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