Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY)

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Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY)


INTRODUCTION TO PKVY

  1. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY) a sub-component of Soil Health Management(SHM) scheme under National Mission of Sustainable Agriculture(NMSA). 

  2. It aims at development of sustainable organic farming by mixing traditional farm knowledge and modern science to ensure long term soil fertility buildup, farm resource conservation and helps in climate change adaptation.

  3.  It primarily aims to increase soil fertility and thereby helps in production of healthy food through organic practices without the use of agro-chemicals. 

  4. PKVY aims at empowering farmers by a cluster approach. It focuses on organic farm management,quality produce,value addition of the products and direct marketing through innovative means. 

  5. Participatory Guarantee System under PGS-India programme will be the key approach for quality assurances under the PKVY. 

  6. The farmers will have the option to adopt any form of organic farming in compliance of PGS-India standards. 

  7. While adopting a system it should be ensured that the system adopted is compatible with the area and crop and gives good yield with proper management of nutrients,pests and diseases.

  8. Farmers will have the flexibility to use appropriate package of practices best suited to their situations.


OBJECTIVES

  1. sustainable farming system: To promote natural and sustainable farming systems for increasing soil fertility, natural resource management, on-farm nutrient recycling and minimize dependence on external inputs.


  1. Enhancing farmer's net income: To reduce the input cost of farmers through sustainable integrated organic farming systems and thereby enhancing farmer's net income per unit of land.


  1. Organic food production: To sustainably produce chemical free and nutritious food for human consumption.

  2. Environmental protection: To protect the environment from hazardous inorganic chemicals(chemical fertilizers and pesticides) by adoption of eco friendly,organic,low cost ,traditional and farmer friendly technologies.


  1. Farmers empowerment: To empower farmers by cluster approach with capacity to manage production, processing, value addition and certification management.


  1. Marketing of produce: To make farmers,entrepreneurs through direct market linkages with local and national markets.


FUNDS

  1. Funds will be released to states after approval of the annual action plan by national Executive Committee in May of each year.

  2. Incentives to farmers for organic conversion, organic inputs, on-farm input production infrastructure etc shall be provided as Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to their respective bank accounts of farmers/ group of farmers. 

  3. States may define the policy guidelines for utilization of such funds, but it will be the choice of the farmers to utilize the fund in farm management.



MONITORING AND EVALUATION

  1. At the national level regular monitoring of the scheme will be done by NCOF, RCOFs and National Project Management Team. Monitoring formats will be developed for the same.

  2. At State and district levels also the Project Management Teams engaged will do regular monitoring of the implementation of the scheme.

  3. Information and communication technology will be deployed extensively for ensuring transparency in the implementation process and effective monitoring of the programme.

  4. The clusters taken up under PKVY will be geo tagged(Geotagging can help users find location-specific information) for monitoring purposes as well as for facilitating marketing mechanisms based on the crops grown.



JAIVIK KHETI PORTAL 

  1. It is a dedicated portal for organic farming acting as both a knowledge platform as well as marketing platform.

  2. Details of farmers involved in Organic farming, input supplier, certification agency (PGS), and marketing agencies are available here for smooth implementation, from production to marketing. 

  3. PKVY/PGS groups can take advantage of this portal for capacity building, technical knowledge gain, communicating with marketing channels and also direct marketing of their farm produce to prospective buyers and consumers.



FORMATION OF GROUP AND CLUSTERS

  1. A group of farmers having a total minimum area of 20 ha land within a village or closely located villages shall be considered a PKVY/PGS Group. A group shall comprise minimum 20 farmers (may be more if individual holdings are less). 

  2. All PGS group requirements for PGS certification shall be taken up by this group (called local group in PGS manual). 25-50 such groups covering 500-1000 ha area shall constitute one “Cluster”.

  3. Farmers in a group can avail benefit to a maximum of two ha as per provision of PKVY, however the entire land of farmers could be allowed in the cluster without extending any additional support to the rest of the area. 


BENEFITS TO FARMERS UNDER PKVY

  • For organic conversion, and on-farm and off-farm input costs

  1. Financial assistance to farmers shall be provided as incentive for procurement/ management of organic inputs. Necessary funds under the head shall be released directly to the farmer/beneficiaries as Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in their bank accounts.

  2. On-farm inputs like composting, green manuring etc. and  Off-farm inputs like organic seeds, manures, vermicomposts, biofertilizers, biopesticides, neem formulations, waste decomposer, botanical and physical and biological plant protection agents etc. can be considered.

  3. States can issue necessary guidelines and suggest inputs as recommendation. Farmers can choose inputs out of the recommendations as per their choice. In any case farmers should not be forced to buy the recommended inputs by the implementation Department and professional support agencies. Farmers will also be free to utilize the assistance fully for creation of on-farm input production infrastructure.


  • For marketing, common packaging, branding, space rent, transport.

  1. Financial assistance will be given for direct marketing by the farmers groups and clusters including procuring common packing material, printing of packing material, brochures, leaflets, preparation of labels, holograms, transportation expenses to local markets, hiring spaces on rent for specific organic markets and branding of organic products.

  2. PGS India Green logo may be used for areas under conversion and PGS India Organic logo may be used for completely converted organic areas. Regional Council/ service providers in consultation with the State Governments will design the label and branding for the clusters. The labeling must include the name of cluster, district and unique product packing used for branding organic produce.


PGS INDIA LOGO
image source (PGS INDIA) 

  • For Value addition infrastructure creation through FPC/FPO:

  1. Clusters can develop their own post-harvest, value addition and processing facilities, preferably under their institutions such as FPOs/ FPCs for creation of facilities for following mentioned here:

  • Creation of postharvest processing center.

  • Creation of storage facility

  • Transportation infrastructure/ costs

  • Cold store/ pack house

  • Processing unit for drying, grinding, milling, packaging etc.

  • Any other facility deemed necessary for completing the value chain.

  1. Financial assistance to meet the expenses for procuring processing units, storage, grading, packaging, branding, labeling, transportation, market linkage with FPO/ SME including the cost of organic fare to be provided on submission of appropriate proposal to the executive committee on case by case basis.



  • Brand building, trade fairs, exhibitions, local publicity, organic fairs/ melas, local marketing initiatives, participation in national trade fairs:

  1. States in consultation with service providers shall draw a comprehensive marketing strategy and plan at state level for brand building of state specific organic products. Cluster leaders can also be exposed to national and international trade fairs within the country.

  2. State Governments can also hire spaces in markets during weekends for promotion of PGS certified organic produce and can organize state level exhibitions, trade fairs and seminars/ conferences far facilitating direct market linkages with retail chains.

  3. Setting up of an Integrated Processing Unit is linked with the area already brought under organic farming or is proposed for conversion to organic. It must be ensured that adequate raw material is available from grower groups in nearby areas.

  4. It also ensures that facilities are created in such a way that different commodities can be processed under a single roof and the unit can run for at least 8- 10 months a year.

  5. These projects should be preferably Farmer institutions driven or under Private and farmer Institution partnership mode and are established mainly to cater the value addition requirement of the PKVY cluster produce.

  6. Funds under this component will be provided on a specific proposal on a case by case basis by DAC&FW(Department of Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare).


Source:PKVY(https://pgsindia-ncof.gov.in/pkvy/index.aspx)


CONCLUSION

Hope this article gives a brief idea about the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY). Please give your valuable feedback here and like and share the page so that the information reaches other farmers.


For any further scheme related query you may contact the local Agriculture office.


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