Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Schemes for Promotion of Oilseed and Pulses

A National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP) has been approved for XII Plan period which will be implemented during the remaining period of the Plan i.e. 2014-15 to 2017-18. An allocation of Rs.3507.00 crore has been made during the 12th Plan. The proposed NMOOP will consist of three Mini Mission (MM) i.e MM-I on Oilseeds, MM-II on Oil Palm and MM-III on Tree Borne Oilseeds. 

An amount of Rs.300 crores was provided under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) to organize sixty thousand “Pulses and Oilseeds Villages” in Rainfed areas to provide an integrated intervention of water harvesting, watershed management and soil health for enhancing the productivity of the dry land farming areas. During 2011-12 an amount of Rs. 300 crores was also provided under RKVY to organize programme of 60,000 Pulse Villages. This initiative was subsumed under NFSM-Pulses during 2012-13. For strengthening market linkages, a “National Demonstration Project for Promotion of Farmer Producer Organization (FPOs) and Value Chain Development of Pulses and Millets” for formation of 106 FPOs during the period of three years (2013-16) has been approved for implementation through SFAC with a sum of Rs.5000.00 lakhs. 

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