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Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
28-February, 2018 17:19 IST
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare congratulates Indian Council of Agricultural Research for completing 88 glorious years
Entire focus is on farmers' welfare and Budget 2018 reiterates emphasis on holistic development of agriculture sector: Shri Radha Mohan Singh
Several policy initiatives in the last three years resulted in record food grain production in the current year: Union Agriculture Minister
Very proud of our peasant brothers and scientists for having taken India to the top slot in Horticulture: Shri Singh
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Radha Mohan Singh today addressed the 89th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) society at National Agricultural Science Complex (NASC) in Pusa, New Delhi. Shri Singh congratulated ICAR for completing 88 glorious years and lauded the institution for having braved the odds despite challenging circumstances to achieve notable success in improving agriculture system and enhancing agriculture production and productivity in the country thereby increasing income of the farmers, especially the small and marginal farmers.
The minister said that ICAR has taken important steps towards fulfilling Prime Minister’s vision of doubling farmer’s income by 2022. The ICAR has also done notable work in the field of developing new technologies, integrated farming systems, institution building, human resource, diversification in agriculture, creating new opportunities and developing new sources of information. The ICAR is committed to making Indian agriculture more sustainable and beneficial.
Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare; Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Panchayati Raj and Smt. Krishna Raj, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare; Shri Mahadev Jagannath Jankar, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Development, Maharashtra; Shri Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Minister of Agriculture and Horticulture, Telangana; Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha); Shri Surya Pratap Shahi, Minister of Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh; Dr. Ram Lal Markanda, Minister of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh; Shri Prem Kumar, Minister of Agriculture and Horticulture, Bihar; Shri Ghulam Nabi Lone, Minister for Agriculture Production, Jammu & Kashmir; Shri Abdul Ghani Kohli, Minister for Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries, Jammu & Kashmir; Shri Udumalai Radhakrishnan, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Tamil Nadu and Shri Thalavai Sundaram, Special Representative, Govt. of Tamil Nadu were also present at the occasion.
Shri Singh said that the government is committed in its effort to double farmer’s income by 2022 and is working for the betterment of the sector and farmers. He said his entire focus is on farmers' welfare and Budget 2018 reiterates the government’s emphasis on holistic development of agriculture sector. For the first time in this budget, the rural outlay has increased by 30%.
Agriculture minister asserted that several policy initiatives of the government in the last three years have resulted in record production of food grains in the country in the current year. In 2017-18, production of food grain was 275.68 million tones as compared to 265.04 million tonnes in 2013-14, showing a significant rise of 10.64 million tonnes (or about 4 percent). The food grain production in the current year is, in fact, 19 million tonnes more than the average food grain production between 2011-12 and 2015-16.
The Minister also expressed happiness over record production in horticulture in 2016-17 at 305 million tonnes, which is 4.8% more than the previous year. The fruit production has crossed 93 million tonnes and vegetable production has reached 178 million tonnes. He applauded the special contribution of ICAR in achieving this milestone and said that he is very proud of his peasant brothers and scientists for having taken India to the top slot in horticulture.
Shri Singh said the ICAR has developed 45 IFS by including 15 agro-climatic zones to help small and marginal farmers to tide over the problems associated with climate change. This model will be replicated and taken forward through agricultural science centers spread across the country. Besides this, ICAR has also developed 623 District Level contingency schemes, which were certified and skill development programs for 40.9 lakh farmers were organized.
In order to assist the Government’s “Soil Health Card” initiative, minilabs were developed for soil testing. ICAR through its agriculture science centres spread across the country have displayed climate friendly techniques in 29 States. A total of 42 biological agricultural technologies were developed by ICAR which were tested and further improved. ICAR has also developed 42 organic farming techniques, which were tested and are being further improved.
In order to take scientific knowledge to the farmers, the Government has started a program called 'Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav, in which five villages are adopted by a group of four scientists who impart agricultural consultation and information to farmers. A total of 1226 teams have been formed this year from a pool of 4774 scientists sourced from ICAR and state agriculture universities. This program has already benefitted 9,76,033 farmers and 5.346 villages.
The government, for the benefit of farmers, has initiated several programs like agriculture expansion, Sankalp Se Siddhi, 'Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav, infrastructure development, agriculture education, agricultural research, international cooperation and technology transfer among others.
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The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018. The Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smt. Krishna Raj, the DG, ICAR, Dr. T. Mohapatra and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018. The Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smt. Krishna Raj, the DG, ICAR, Dr. T. Mohapatra and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018. The Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smt. Krishna Raj, the DG, ICAR, Dr. T. Mohapatra and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressing at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressing at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018.
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat addressing at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018.
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
28-February, 2018 18:26 IST
Cabinet approves doubling of Government guarantee from Rs 9,500 crore to Rs.19,000 crore for procurements of pulses and oilseeds at MSP under Price Support Scheme by NAFED
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the regularization and extension of Govt. Guarantee provided to lender Bank for providing credit limit to National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) Rs.19,000 crore from earlier Rs.9,500 crore for undertaking procurement operation of pulses and oilseeds under Price Support Scheme (PSS) and to Small Farmers Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) for Rs. 45 crore for meeting their existing liability and settlement of extant claims. These Government Guarantees are provided for a period of five years i.e. till 2021-22 by Govt. of India and with waiver of 1% Government Guarantee fee.
As the market price of almost all pulses and oilseeds are ruling below Minimum Support Price (MSP) as notified by Govt. of India, provision of Govt. Guarantee will help in protecting the farmers producing these commodities from making distress sales during the peak arrival period and to provide remunerative prices with a view to encourage higher investment and production and also to safeguard the interest of consumer by making available supplies at reasonable price with low cost of intermediation.
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Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
28-February, 2018 18:25 IST
Cabinet approves continuation of Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) beyond 12th Plan for three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the continuation of Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) beyond 12th Plan for three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20 with a total outlay of Rs.5,500 crore.
Scheme will create sustainable estimated employment opportunities for 15 lakh persons in three financial years.
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is the nodal implementation agency at the national level. At the State/district level, State offices of KVIC, Khadi and Village Industries Boards (KVIBs) and District Industry Centres (DIC) are the implementing agencies. Applications are invited and processed on-line on PMEGP-e-portal. Targets are fixed taking into account:
The entire process of application flow and fund flow right from receipt of application, processing, sanction by banks, transfer of margin money subsidy till creation of Term Deposit Receipt (TDR) in the name of applicant has been made online. The portal can be accessed at https://www.kviconline.gov.in/pmegpeportal/prneqphome/index.jsp.
Background:
PMEGP is a major credit-linked subsidy programme being implemented by the Ministry of MSME since 2008-09 The Scheme is aimed at generating self-employment opportunities through establishment of micro-enterprises in the non-farm sector by helping traditional artisans and unemployed youth in rural as well as urban areas. A total of 4.55 lakh micro enterprises have been assisted with a margin money subsidy of Rs 9564.02 crore providing employment to an estimated 37.98 lakh persons from inception till 31.01.2018.
Following modifications/improvements have been made in the Scheme:
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Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
28-February, 2018 19:34 IST
Use of NEET (UG 2018) qualified merit list for filling up of 15% seats on All India basis for admissions to B.V.Sc & A.H degree Course in recognized Veterinary Colleges during 2017-18
The Veterinary Council of India through its Public Notice dated 23.02.2018 has informed that the Merit list of NEET (UG) 2018 will be used for allocation of seats under 15% All India quota for allocation of seats to the recognized Veterinary Colleges for admission to B.V.Sc & A.H. course during 2018-19.
All those students desirous to take admission to B.V.Sc & A.H.Degree Course under 15% seats on All India Basis are hereby advised to appear in NEET (UG)2018 to be conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on 6th May,2018.
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28-February, 2018 17:19 IST
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare congratulates Indian Council of Agricultural Research for completing 88 glorious years
Entire focus is on farmers' welfare and Budget 2018 reiterates emphasis on holistic development of agriculture sector: Shri Radha Mohan Singh
Several policy initiatives in the last three years resulted in record food grain production in the current year: Union Agriculture Minister
Very proud of our peasant brothers and scientists for having taken India to the top slot in Horticulture: Shri Singh
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Radha Mohan Singh today addressed the 89th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) society at National Agricultural Science Complex (NASC) in Pusa, New Delhi. Shri Singh congratulated ICAR for completing 88 glorious years and lauded the institution for having braved the odds despite challenging circumstances to achieve notable success in improving agriculture system and enhancing agriculture production and productivity in the country thereby increasing income of the farmers, especially the small and marginal farmers.
The minister said that ICAR has taken important steps towards fulfilling Prime Minister’s vision of doubling farmer’s income by 2022. The ICAR has also done notable work in the field of developing new technologies, integrated farming systems, institution building, human resource, diversification in agriculture, creating new opportunities and developing new sources of information. The ICAR is committed to making Indian agriculture more sustainable and beneficial.
Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare; Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Panchayati Raj and Smt. Krishna Raj, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare; Shri Mahadev Jagannath Jankar, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Development, Maharashtra; Shri Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Minister of Agriculture and Horticulture, Telangana; Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha); Shri Surya Pratap Shahi, Minister of Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh; Dr. Ram Lal Markanda, Minister of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh; Shri Prem Kumar, Minister of Agriculture and Horticulture, Bihar; Shri Ghulam Nabi Lone, Minister for Agriculture Production, Jammu & Kashmir; Shri Abdul Ghani Kohli, Minister for Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries, Jammu & Kashmir; Shri Udumalai Radhakrishnan, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Tamil Nadu and Shri Thalavai Sundaram, Special Representative, Govt. of Tamil Nadu were also present at the occasion.
Shri Singh said that the government is committed in its effort to double farmer’s income by 2022 and is working for the betterment of the sector and farmers. He said his entire focus is on farmers' welfare and Budget 2018 reiterates the government’s emphasis on holistic development of agriculture sector. For the first time in this budget, the rural outlay has increased by 30%.
Agriculture minister asserted that several policy initiatives of the government in the last three years have resulted in record production of food grains in the country in the current year. In 2017-18, production of food grain was 275.68 million tones as compared to 265.04 million tonnes in 2013-14, showing a significant rise of 10.64 million tonnes (or about 4 percent). The food grain production in the current year is, in fact, 19 million tonnes more than the average food grain production between 2011-12 and 2015-16.
The Minister also expressed happiness over record production in horticulture in 2016-17 at 305 million tonnes, which is 4.8% more than the previous year. The fruit production has crossed 93 million tonnes and vegetable production has reached 178 million tonnes. He applauded the special contribution of ICAR in achieving this milestone and said that he is very proud of his peasant brothers and scientists for having taken India to the top slot in horticulture.
Shri Singh said the ICAR has developed 45 IFS by including 15 agro-climatic zones to help small and marginal farmers to tide over the problems associated with climate change. This model will be replicated and taken forward through agricultural science centers spread across the country. Besides this, ICAR has also developed 623 District Level contingency schemes, which were certified and skill development programs for 40.9 lakh farmers were organized.
In order to assist the Government’s “Soil Health Card” initiative, minilabs were developed for soil testing. ICAR through its agriculture science centres spread across the country have displayed climate friendly techniques in 29 States. A total of 42 biological agricultural technologies were developed by ICAR which were tested and further improved. ICAR has also developed 42 organic farming techniques, which were tested and are being further improved.
In order to take scientific knowledge to the farmers, the Government has started a program called 'Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav, in which five villages are adopted by a group of four scientists who impart agricultural consultation and information to farmers. A total of 1226 teams have been formed this year from a pool of 4774 scientists sourced from ICAR and state agriculture universities. This program has already benefitted 9,76,033 farmers and 5.346 villages.
The government, for the benefit of farmers, has initiated several programs like agriculture expansion, Sankalp Se Siddhi, 'Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav, infrastructure development, agriculture education, agricultural research, international cooperation and technology transfer among others.
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The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018. The Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smt. Krishna Raj, the DG, ICAR, Dr. T. Mohapatra and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018. The Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smt. Krishna Raj, the DG, ICAR, Dr. T. Mohapatra and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh releasing the publication, at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018. The Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smt. Krishna Raj, the DG, ICAR, Dr. T. Mohapatra and other dignitaries are also seen.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressing at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018.
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressing at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018.
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat addressing at the inauguration of the 89th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), in New Delhi on February 28, 2018.
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
28-February, 2018 18:26 IST
Cabinet approves doubling of Government guarantee from Rs 9,500 crore to Rs.19,000 crore for procurements of pulses and oilseeds at MSP under Price Support Scheme by NAFED
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the regularization and extension of Govt. Guarantee provided to lender Bank for providing credit limit to National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) Rs.19,000 crore from earlier Rs.9,500 crore for undertaking procurement operation of pulses and oilseeds under Price Support Scheme (PSS) and to Small Farmers Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) for Rs. 45 crore for meeting their existing liability and settlement of extant claims. These Government Guarantees are provided for a period of five years i.e. till 2021-22 by Govt. of India and with waiver of 1% Government Guarantee fee.
As the market price of almost all pulses and oilseeds are ruling below Minimum Support Price (MSP) as notified by Govt. of India, provision of Govt. Guarantee will help in protecting the farmers producing these commodities from making distress sales during the peak arrival period and to provide remunerative prices with a view to encourage higher investment and production and also to safeguard the interest of consumer by making available supplies at reasonable price with low cost of intermediation.
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Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
28-February, 2018 18:25 IST
Cabinet approves continuation of Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) beyond 12th Plan for three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the continuation of Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) beyond 12th Plan for three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20 with a total outlay of Rs.5,500 crore.
Scheme will create sustainable estimated employment opportunities for 15 lakh persons in three financial years.
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is the nodal implementation agency at the national level. At the State/district level, State offices of KVIC, Khadi and Village Industries Boards (KVIBs) and District Industry Centres (DIC) are the implementing agencies. Applications are invited and processed on-line on PMEGP-e-portal. Targets are fixed taking into account:
- Extent of backwardness of State;
- Extent of unemployment;
- Extent of fulfillment of previous year targets;
- Population of State/Union Territory; and
- Availability of traditional skills and raw material.
The entire process of application flow and fund flow right from receipt of application, processing, sanction by banks, transfer of margin money subsidy till creation of Term Deposit Receipt (TDR) in the name of applicant has been made online. The portal can be accessed at https://www.kviconline.gov.in/pmegpeportal/prneqphome/index.jsp.
Background:
PMEGP is a major credit-linked subsidy programme being implemented by the Ministry of MSME since 2008-09 The Scheme is aimed at generating self-employment opportunities through establishment of micro-enterprises in the non-farm sector by helping traditional artisans and unemployed youth in rural as well as urban areas. A total of 4.55 lakh micro enterprises have been assisted with a margin money subsidy of Rs 9564.02 crore providing employment to an estimated 37.98 lakh persons from inception till 31.01.2018.
Following modifications/improvements have been made in the Scheme:
- Second loan of upto Rs. one crore to existing and better performing PMEGP units for upgrading with subsidy of 15%;
- Merger of Coir Udyami Yojana (GUY) in PMEGP;
- Introduction of concurrent monitoring and evaluation
- Mandatory Aadhaar and Pan card;
- Geo-tagging of units;
- vii. Negative list under PMEGP amended allowing serving/selling non-vegetarian food at Hotels/Dhabas and Off Farm/Farm Linked activities.
- Dispensing the ratio of 30:30:40 for KVIC/KVIB/DIC.
- Cap the working capital component for manufacturing units to 40% of the project cost and for service/trading sector to 60% of the project cost.
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Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
28-February, 2018 19:34 IST
Use of NEET (UG 2018) qualified merit list for filling up of 15% seats on All India basis for admissions to B.V.Sc & A.H degree Course in recognized Veterinary Colleges during 2017-18
The Veterinary Council of India through its Public Notice dated 23.02.2018 has informed that the Merit list of NEET (UG) 2018 will be used for allocation of seats under 15% All India quota for allocation of seats to the recognized Veterinary Colleges for admission to B.V.Sc & A.H. course during 2018-19.
All those students desirous to take admission to B.V.Sc & A.H.Degree Course under 15% seats on All India Basis are hereby advised to appear in NEET (UG)2018 to be conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on 6th May,2018.
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