National Food Security Mission

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National Food Security Mission

• Performance review

Presentation to the 3rd General Council meeting
of the National Food Security Mission on 7th
December 2009 at 3 PM under the Chairmanship of
Union Agriculture Minister
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Demand Supply Gap
Crop 2008-09 2008-09 2008-09 2011-12 2011-12 2011-12 2020
Crop Projected Demand Projected Production Surplus/ Shortfall Projected Demand Projected Production Surplus/ Shortfall Projected Demand
Rice 92.87 95.34 (99.15) 6.28 98.79 104.21 5.42 111.9
Wheat 72.72 76.21 (80.58) 7.86 77.36 83.61 6.25 79.9
Coarse Ceareals 35.9 34.57 (39.48) 3.58 38.19 35.75 -2.44 37.3
Pulses 17.51 14.43 (14.66) -2.85 19.91 15.73 -4.18 23.8
Foodgrains 219 220.55 (233.88) 14.88 234.26 239.3 5.04 252.8
Oilseeds 47.43 26.32 (28.16) -19.27 53.39 27.53 -25.86 -
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Wheat Targets
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Rice Targets
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Pulses Targets
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Impact on productivity of Wheat
Productivity increase in the No. of NFSM
Districts in 2008-09 over 2006-07
State lt0 lt10 gt10 and lt20 gt20 (blank) Total -ve
Rajasthan 9 2 3 1   15 60
Haryana 4 3       7 57
WB 2   1 1   4 50
Maharashtra 3 2 2 1   8 37
UP 14 16 6 2   38 36
Bihar 9 5   11   25 36
MP 10 8 8 4   30 33
Punjab 2 1   1 3 7 28
Gujarat         4 4 0
Grand Total 53 37 20 21 7 138 38
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Impact on productivity of Rice
Productivity increase in the No. of NFSM
Districts in 2008-09 over 2006-07
State lt0 lt10 gt10 and lt20 gt20 (blank) Total -ve
Jharkhand 5         5 100
TN 10 1 1     12 83
Chhattisgarh 7 2 1     10 70
Orissa 8 2 4 1   15 53
Bihar 7     11   18 39
WB 3 1 2 2   8 38
AP 4 2 1 4   11 36
UP 6 3 3 14   26 23
Maharashtra 1 4   1   6 17
Assam 2 2 2 7   13 15
MP 1     8   9 11
Gujarat         2 2 0
Karnataka       7   7 0
Kerela     1     1 0
Grand Total 54 17 15 55 2 143 38
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Impact on Productivity of Pulses
Productivity increase in the No. of NFSM
Districts in 2008-09 over 2006-07
State lt0 lt10 gt10 and lt20 gt20 (blank) Total -ve
MP 16 2 2     20 80
Bihar 9 3 1     13 69
Maharashtra 10 1 1 6   18 56
Haryana 2 2     1 5 40
Punjab 2 1   1 3 7 29
AP 3 3 2 6   14 21
Orissa 2 1 3 4   10 20
Rajasthan 3 2 1 9 1 16 19
UP 3 3 1 12   19 16
Chhattisgarh     2 6   8 0
Gujarat         11 11 0
Karnataka       13   13 0
WB     2 2 1 5 0
Grand Total 50 18 15 59 17 159 31
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Impact of Drought

• Loss of crop production in Kharif 2009

166 of the 300 drought declared districts are
covered by NFSM
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Area coverage of Kharif Rice ,2009
Area in Lakh ha.
Normal Area Area Covered Area Covered Change over 2008 Change over 2008 of Normal
Normal Area 2009 2008 /- of Normal
391.86 335.86 395.49 -59.63 -15.08 85.71
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Area coverage of Kharif Rice ,2009
BIHAR
Area in Thousand
Area Covered Area Covered Change over 2008 Change over 2008
2009 2008 /-
NFSM 1353.22 1936.48 583.255 30.12
Non-NFSM 949.15 1492.86 -543.706 36.42
Total 2302.37 3429.33 -1126.96 32.86
Uttar Pradesh
Area Covered Area Covered Change over 2008 Change over 2008
2009 2008 /-
NFSM 2028.96 3124.1 1095.14 35.05
Non-NFSM 2053.04 2984.2 931.16 31.20
Total 4082.00 6108.3 2026.3 33.17
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Impact on targets

• Loss of about 13 million tons of kharif rice and
  about 0.3 million tons of pulses as per first
  advance estimate
• In Rabi and Summer seasons the Rice production
  can be enhanced by about 3 million tons and
  pulses by 1 million ton
• Overall, therefore the rice production could be
  short by 5 million tons as compared to base year
  of 2006-07 to reach 88 million tons
• Pulses could achieve the target of additional 1.5
  million tons as compared to base year to reach
  15.3 million tons
• In Wheat if the climate conditions remain
  favourable an increase of about 2 million tons is
  possible to reach 82.6 million tons, making the
  overall production of food grains reaching the
  demand levels for the year

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Rice

• Additional strategies for production

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Reducing Risks of Rice production

• Increased production in good season for
  maintaining food buffer stocks
• Promotion of Hybrid Rice Strategies to enlist
  Private sector participation, and adapting
  Chinese experience of production of public bred
  hybrids
• Reaching out to low capacity rice farmers
• Promotion of SRI Inclusion of NGOs for
  individualized service to farmers especially for
  rainfed rice
• Develop technologies on drought and submergence
  tolerance
• Partnering IRRI for active promotion of STRASA

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Constraints in Hybrid Rice Promotion

• Inadequate availability of breeder and certified
  seed
• Seed Production limited to very specific region
• Non synchronous flowering of A R lines in
  North India-Main cause for low seed setting
• Private sector is not keen for seed
  certification- not eligible for assistance under
  NFSM
• Higher cost and less comparative advantage in
  high productivity areas
• High cost of seed and limited supply of quality
  seeds in the areas of demand

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Impact of Hybrid rice seed Minikit

• Farmers were very happy to see the performance of
  public rice hybrid because of shorter duration
  than private hybrid during this drought year.
• This year rice hybrid minikits have been
  distributed 51812 no (6 kg each) against 60300 no
  allotted.
• Some states have utilized hybrid seed minikit as
  demonstration under SRI.

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Area in SRI under NFSM Non-NFSM State
2006 (base year) 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
NFSM-State 437 1304 8942 2650
Non-NFSM State 264995 450000 522000 670000
Total 265432 451304 530942 672650
Information is still awaited from some states
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Challenges in SRI promotion

• Changing mind sets of the scientists and the
  farmers
• Adoption and its continuation by Farmers
• More documentation by researchers
• Refining technology to make it easier for
  adoption
• Nursery raising
• On farm moisture conservation to address dry
  spells in rainfed rice areas
• Labour problem in rural areas
• Availability of Conoweeders
• Approval for Power weeders
• Development of Precision mechanised farming
  (single seedling multi line transplanter
• Availability of Farm Yard Manure
• Promoting Green manure

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IRRI partnership

• Popularizing Suvarna sub 1, submergence tolerance
  variety
• Fast tracking release of drought and salinity
  tolerant varieties developed by IRRI
• Common areas of interest low productivity
  districts are rainfed and flood prone
• MoU with IRRI for time bound delivery of services
  to the farmers

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Wheat

• Stabilizing the production

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Coping with the climate change

• Promotion of Conservation Agriculture
• Zero till seed drill machines and Laser aided
  land levellers
• Regulations for timely planting of rice crops
• System of wheat intensification scaling up Bihar
  model
• Promotion of terminal heat tolerant varieties
• Seed minikits of PBW 550, DW 17 varieties
• Strategic research for developing new varieties
• Timely sowing of wheat in Eastern India
• Flood control measures for early vacation of
  fields

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Pulses

• Realizing the yield potential and area expansion

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Addressing yield gaps

• Merger of ISOPOM with NFSM
• Large scale Block demonstrations with nutrient
  and plant protection centric approach
• Converging with Rainfed area development programs
  for providing protective irrigation
• Pilot projects with ICRISAT on identifying
  promotional strategies, control of pests and
  hybrids
• Controlling the blue bull menace by de regulation
  of its status under wild life legislation

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Area expansion

• Potential for summer moong in Punjab, Haryana,
  Western UP in view of the water use regulation
• Developing rice fallows in Central and Eastern
  India through promotion of rice
  hybrid-chickpea/lentil/lathyrus line sown farming
  system
• Intercrops with soybean
• Inclusion of Jharkhand and Assam under NFSM for
  intensive pulses promotion

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Sum up

• NFSM has done very well in its first two years of
  operation with achievement of the production
  targets
• Drought this year and the climatic factors for
  wheat requires additional strategies to reduce
  the associated risks and stabilize the production
• Pulses promotion approach is being revamped with
  strengthening of NFSM through the proposed merger
  of ISOPOM pulses components
• All the stake holders including the non
  governmental organizations and the private sector
  need to be included in the mission programs to
  deepen its reach
• New partnerships are being forged for capacity
  building of the extension teams in the States