Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India

andDevelopment of 60,000 villages

Continuing with a different approach

Rice Area affected by different stresses in eastern India (lakh ha)

 States

  Flash Flood

prone

 Drought Prone

Salinity/Sodicity

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 NilTotal 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

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

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

Financial allocation

Target demonstration units

Rainfed Low land Rice Irrigated Rice

State

Rainfed Upland

rice

Shallow Low land

RiceMedium

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 22Chhattisgarh 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 97West Bengal 7 12 12 2 15 10 58 3Total 36 78 37 14 64 40 269 122

Physical Targets

Technology components - CRRIActivity Rainfed

Upland Rice

Rainfed Low land rice Irrigated RiceTraditional Hybrid 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 2000Direct Seeding (Line sowing by drum seeder) /Transplanting/seed drills

1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

Seed Treatment 120 120 105 105 60 25Zinc 875 875 875 875 875 875Boron 275 275 275 275 275 275Weed management 640 640 640 0 640 640Plant Protection 700 700 700 700 700 700Honorarium Staff – 1 per unit @ 1000/month*6 6 6 6 6 6 6Mobility Staff 6 6 6 6 6 6Honorarium Farmer – 10 per unit* as above 60 60 60 60 60 60Mobility Farmer 60 60 60 60 60 60Provision of Drum Seeder 70 70 70 70 70 70Travel 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

Technology components of wheat unitsActivity Cost per hectare

(Rs.)Remarks

Provision of seed 2000 Seed Rate of 100kg/ha

Sowing Operation 1000 On Custom Hiring BasisSeed 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 : 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 6Mobility 6

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 60Mobility 60

Travel cost for KVK scientist/State officials/GOI officers

100 For meeting the POL/TA/DA of KVK Scientists

Total 4000

Timelines for Kharif Season

Activity April May JunePreparation of District wise and Component wise Action Plan including site specific activities 25th Mar to 6th AprIdentification of village clusters and Beneficiaries 1st to 20th - -Identification of Progressive Farmers 10th AprLand preparation and deep ploughing work planning 20th AprSupply tie ups for seeds, farm machines, nutrients, seed treatment material and plant protection chemicals 27th Approval of Action Plan by SLSCs 15th to 30th AprRelease of 1st installment of allocated funds to States 15th MayExecution of pre sowing works 1st May to 30th JunePre positioning of the inputs planned 15th June

Work plan by CRRI for monitoring of components 15th AprPlanning for mobility of the KVK and ATMA officials 30th AprSLMT Meeting 28th 30th 30th

Important Milestones

DEVELOPMENT OF 60,000 PULSES VILLAGES IN RAINFED AREAS

Bouquet of programs

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

Targets

Physical• 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

Financial

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

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

Timelines for Kharif seasonActivity April May JunePreparation 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 AprilExecution of the farm pond including lining 10th May to 30th JuneFinalization 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 AprilPrepositioning of minkits of Moong & Blackgram 20th to 25th Approval of Action Plan by SLSC 15th to 30th AprilRelease of funds to states 1st -15th Release of 1st Installment (50%) to beneficiary 10th May to 30th JuneMonitoring of Works by State 15th to 20th 20th to 25th Release of final installment for completed works 25th to 30th June

Important milestones

Farmer producer organizations

• MD, SFAC to present

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

Thank you!!

Khullar.m@nic.in