Food Security Mission Sees 7 to 9% Growth in Production

The Government is implementing National Food Security Mission (NFSM) for enhancing production of oilseeds and pulses in the country. Under NFSM, assistance is given through State Governments to farmers for interventions like cluster demonstrations on improved package of practices, demonstrations on cropping system, seed production and distribution of High Yielding Varieties/Hybrids, improved farm machineries/resource conservation machineries/tools, efficient water application tools, plant protection measures, nutrient management/soil ameliorants, cropping system based trainings to the farmers etc. In addition, the mission also provides support to Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) & State Agricultural Universities (SAUs)/Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) for technology back stopping and transfer of technology to the farmer under supervision of Subject Matter Specialists/Scientists. Besides, Rashtriya Krishi VikasYojana RAFTAAR (RKVY-RAFTAAR) provides provision for crop production related activities on oilseeds and pulses. Under RKVYRAFTAAR, the states can also implement programme on oilseeds and pulses with the approval of State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) constituted under the chairpersonship of Chief Secretary of the state.

Due to above said interventions, production of Oilseeds and Pulses have been increased in the country, details of last two years are as under:

Year	Production (million tonnes)
	Oilseeds	Pulses
2019-20	33.22	23.03
2020-21	35.95	25.46

Under NFSM-Oilseeds and NFSM- Pulses, physical progress during the last two years is enclosed at Annexure-I and funds released are as under:

Year	Fund released under NFSM(Rs. in Crore)
	Oilseeds	Pulses
2019-20	213.70	864.95
2020-21	371.01	639.44

The prices of oilseeds and pulses are influenced by various factors viz; domestic production, stock available from past seasons, demand from consumers, international prices, agro-climatic conditions etc. The production of oilseeds and pulses increased from 31.52 million tonne and 22.08 million tonne during 2018-19 to 35.95 million tonne and 25.46 million tonne during 2020-21 respectively.

Department of Food and Public Distribution takes various measures from time to time to augment domestic availability and stabilize prices of essential food commodities. These steps, inter-alia, Include releases from the buffer to cool down prices, imposition of stock limits, monitoring of stocks, as also requisite changes in trade policy instruments.

Annexure-I

Details of physical progress under NFSM-Oilseeds and NFSM- Pulses during 2019-20 and 2020-21 are as under:

(i) NFSM- Oilseeds:

S. No.	Components	Unit	Progress
	Seed Components		2019-20	2020-21
1	Purchase of Breeder Seed	Qtls	5331	6903
2	Production of Foundation Seed	Qtls	41068	37792
3	Production of Certified Seeds	Qtls	87945	102054
4	Distribution of Certified Seeds	Qtls	186598	121094
	TOT Programmes
5	Block Demonstration	Ha	142409	133203
6	IPM Demonstration-FFS	Nos	1600	1332
7	Farmers Training	Nos	1516	1736
8	Officers Training	Nos	315	267
	Production Inputs and Farm Implements
9	Dist. of Gypsum/ Pyrite/ Lime/ SSP, etc.	Ha	170668	184040
10	Supply of Rhyzobium / PSB / ZSB / Azatobacter /Mycorrhiza culture	Ha	70543	73089
11	PP Chemicals/ Insecticides/ bio-pesticides/ weedicides/ bio-agents/ micronutrients, etc	Ha	130987	87818
12	Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (NPV)	Ha	2549	1696
13	Supply of Plant Protection Equipments	Nos	16370	19134
14	Supply of Farm Implements	Nos	4265	6204
15	Seed Storage Bins	Nos	5557	2786
16	Distribution of Sprinkler sets	Nos	2464	3602
17	Pipes for carrying water from source to field	Nos	2942361	1337851

(ii) NFSM- Pulses:

S.No.	Interventions	Unit	Progress
			2019-20	2020-21
1	Demonstrations	Ha	501575	456464
2	Seed Distribution	Qtls.	405028	313602
3	Production of Seeds (for varieties less than 10 years of age)	Qtls	647271	402906
4	Total INM	Ha	877956	592241
5	Total IPM	Ha	1397769	576595
6	Farm Implements & equipments	Nos.	123626	90213
7	Sprinkler Sets	Ha	16357	10973
8	Pump Sets	Nos.	25138	13564
9	Pipe for Carrying water from source to field	Mtrs.	8907504	4357745
10	Mobile Rain gun	Ha	118	14
11	Cropping System based trainings (Four Sessions i.e. one before kharif and rabi seasons, One each during kharif&rabi crops)	Nos.	6859	5856
12	Local Initiatives		80866	86316

This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha on 29 March 2022.