Zonal Conference on Agriculture Inputs – Rabi Campaign 2012-13 New Delhi 14 th Sept.2012

Zonal Conference on Agriculture Inputs – Rabi Campaign 2012-13

New Delhi 14th Sept.2012

Mechanization in J&K State

Characteristic features of J&K State Particulars Land Use Data

Net Cultivated area 7.52 lakh ha

Gross Cvtd. Area 11.60 lakh ha

Net area irrigated 3.14 lakh ha (42%)

Av. land holding size 0.56 ha

No. of Operational Holdings 13.35 lakhs

Small/ Marginal Farmers 85%

Un-cultivable land 5.82 lakh ha

Cultivable wastelands 1.50 lakh ha

Pastures 1.29 lakh ha

Characteristic featuresLimitations/Drawbacks

• Fragile Soils in hilly areas susceptible to soil erosion;

• Arid areas of Ladakh and Drought prone areas in Jammu limit farm productivity;

• Single Cropping season of Kharif in temperate / high altitude areas;

• Inadequate and unorganized marketing & limits to transportation of products to distant markets;

• Limits to mechanized farming and irrigation potential of cultivated land;

Thrust Areas in Farm Mechanization in J&K

• Fabrication and provision of implements adapted to Hill Agriculture;

• Popularization of improvised machines for plains;• Farmer friendly approach to facilitate selection

/purchase of machinery;• Improving access to machines and implements

through Agri - Business Centres;• Mechanization of Departmental Seed

Multiplication Farms

Fabrication and provision of implements adapted to Hill Agriculture

• Two divisional levels Govt. Agriculture Workshop were established in 1964-65, one each in Kashmir and Jammu division;

• Three district level workshops were established in the state in mid eighties;

• In order to make available the technical knowhow as also sales after sale services more workshops were established of which three were in Kashmir Division and two in Jammu Division.


• Tractor Drawn Tillers, Levelers, bund makers;• Power Tiller Drawn – Tillers, MB Ploughs;• Bullock Drawn Ploughs • Hand Tools & Implements,• Power Operated Maize Sheller, Paddy Thresher;• Poly Green House Structures• Grain Storage Bins & Seed Containers;• Hand & Power Operated Winnowing fans;• Honey Extractors.


Year Physical (nos) Financial(Rs.in lacs)

2011-12 43442 247.57

2012-13

(ending July 2012)

6114 46.78

Locally Adapted Machines and Tools provided to Farmers


Agriculture Engineering Workshop


Agriculture Engineering Workshop

Provision of other machines and implements adapted to Hill Agriculture

• Power Tillers;• Reaper-cum-Binders;• Bullock Drawn Seed-cum fertilizer Drills;• Power operated Wheat and Paddy Threshers;• Power operated Winnowing Fans and Maize

Sheller etc.;• Manual and Power operated P.P. Equipment;• Seed Treatment Drums;• Honey Extractors.

Popularisation of improvised machines in Plains Areas

• Lazer Levellers;• Planters/Transplanters;• Offset Disc Harrows;• Rotavators;• Reapers-cum-binders;• Harvesters Combines;• Tractors

Popularisation of improvised machines in Plains Areas Farm Machinery Demonstration


Farm Machinery Distribution


Farmer Friendly Approach to Facilitate Selection / purchase of Machinery

• Rules /procedures revised to facilitate purchase of Machinery of his choice by the farmer;

• Exemption of Toll/VAT on Agriculture Machinery;

• Subsidy on Machinery purchased by Farmer from out-side the State;

• Machinery Exhibitions –cum- Melas to provide easy access to latest machinery in far – flung areas of the State

Popularisation of improvised machines in Plains Areas Machinery Melas

Popularisation of improvised machines in Plains Areas Machinery Melas

Improving access to machines and implements through Agri Business Centres

• Provision of back ended subsidy kept under RKVY;

• Assistance provided to Farmer groups /Farmer Entrepreneurs;

• Access provided to rent out machinery to rural peasantry;

• ABCs established:– Jammu district 5 nos– Kathua district 2 nos– Samba district 1 nos

Agri-Business Centre, Sohanjana, Jammu.

Promoting Farm Mechanization through Machines Inducted at Deptt Seed Multiplication Farms 2011-12

S.No Component (Public Sector) Unit RKVY AchievementPhy Fin

1 Tractor mounted spray pumps Nos 2

6.612 Seed treatment drum Nos 13 Seed cum fertilizer drill Nos 14 Power tiller cum weeder Nos 15 Tractors Nos 6

43.10

6 Rotavators Nos 47 Offset Harrow Nos 38 Tractor tiller Nos 29 Seed drill Nos 2

10 Disc Harrow Nos 211 Tractor trolley Nos 212 JCB Nos 1 25.7813 Reaper cum binder Nos 1 3.25

Total 78.740

Àgri-Machinery at Farms





Promoting Farm Mechanization throughMacro Management 2012-13

S. No

Component Pattern of Assistance Unit PhysicalFinancial

SC ST Women General Total1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

a Tractors25% of the cost limited to Rs.0.45 lac/Tractor upto 40 HP

No's200 15.75 11.70 27.00 35.55 90.00

b Power Tillers

40% of the cost limited to Rs.0.45 lac/Power Tiller upto 8 HP & above

No's

10 0.90 0.45 1.35 1.80 4.50

cSelf propelled Reapers

25% of the cost limited to Rs.0.40 lac/unit

No's45 3.20 2.40 5.20 7.20 18.00

dPaddy Transplantor and other similar propelled machines

25% of the cost limited to Rs.0.40 lac/unit

No's20 1.20 0.80 2.40 3.60 8.00

ePower driven equipments

25% of the cost limited to Rs.0.10 lac for essential tractor driven implements

No's

218 3.80 2.90 6.50 8.60 21.80

Promoting Farm Mechanization throughMacro Management 2012-13 (….contd.)

S. No

Component Pattern of Assistance Unit PhysicalFinancial


fDiesel/Electric Pump Sets

@Rs.50% of the cost limited to Rs.0.10 Lac/ Pump upto 7.50 BHP/ 5KV

No's

1300 22.50 17.20 39.00 51.30 130.00

g Potato Planter25% of cost limited to Rs.0.15 lac

No's- - - - -

h Potato Digger25% of cost limited to Rs.0.15 lac

No's- - - - -

iSpecialised power driven Equipments

40% of cost limited to Rs.0.20 lac

No's100 3.40 2.60 6.00 8.00 20.00

Promoting Farm Mechanization throughMacro Management 2012-13 (….contd.)

S. No ComponentPattern of Assistance

Unit PhysicalFinancial


jMannually operated implements/tool kits

25% of the cost limited to Rs.0.02 lac

No's1000 3.46 2.64 6.00 7.90 20.00

kAnimal Driven Implements


No's580 2.50 1.925 4.35 5.725 14.50

lPower Threshers (All Types)


No's30 0.60 0.48 1.08 1.44 3.60

mPP Equipment Manually operated


No's1000 1.38 1.06 2.40 3.16 8.00

Total (4):- 58.69 44.16 101.28 134.28 338.40

Promoting Farm Mechanization throughTraining, Testing & Demonstrations 2012-13

• Approved outlay: Rs.566.75 lakhs

• Purchase of Machinery: Rs.420.75 lakhs

• Demonstrations: Rs.146.00 lakhs

Promoting Farm Mechanization throughTraining, Testing & Demonstrations 2012-13

Machines: Units Rs. In lakhs

Paddy transplanters 30 66.00

Reapers cum Binders 30 117.00

Vegetable Transplanters 30 24.00

Zero till seed drill 30 16.50

Rotavators 30 30.00

Potato Planter 30 21.00

Power Weeder 15 26.25

Seed Treatment Drums 4000 120.00

Promoting Farm Mechanization throughNFSM Rice 2012-13

S.No Interventions Approved rate of assistance

Unit Target

Physical Financial

1 2 3 4 5 6

b) Knap Sack Sprayers50% or Rs. 3000/-

per machine Nos. 800 24.00

c) Zero Till Seed Drill

50% or Rs. 15000/- per

machineNos. 35 5.25

i) Rotavators

50% or Rs. 30000/- per

machineNos. 60 18.00

j) Laser Land LevelerRs. 150000/- per

machine Nos. 10 15.00

5Incentives for pump sets

50% or Rs. 10000/- per

PumpsetNos. 377 37.70

Promoting Farm Mechanization throughOther Schemes 2012-13

Scheme Particulars UnitTarget

Phy. Fin.

RKVY

P.P.Equipment Nos. 3 0.930Rotavators Nos. 9 2.540Agri Business Center Nos. 8 40.000Irrigation Pumpset Nos. 103 10.260

ISOPOM

a) Manual P.P.Equipment Nos. 500 4.000b) Power Operated P.P.Equipment Nos. 51 1.020a) Manual/Bullock Op Equip. Nos. 200 5.000b) Power Operated Equip. Nos. 50 7.500

National Mission on Saffron

Dryer Nos. 240 18.000

Weeder Nos. 9 4.500

Promoting Farm Mechanization through Convergence of Schemes for Distribution of

Machinery (2011-12)S.

NoComponent (Beneficiaries) Unit Macro

ManagementNFSM Technology

MissionRKVY ISOPOM Total

Phy Fin Phy Fin Phy Fin Phy Fin Phy Fin Phy Fin

1Tractor Nos 104 46.800 - - - - - - - - 104 46.8002Power tiller Nos 2 0.770 - - - - - - - - 2 0.7703Power Driven equipments Nos 39 3.103 - - - - - - - - 39 3.1034Specailized Power driven

equipmentNos 137 25.413 - - - - - - - - 137 25.413

5Manually operated implements/ tools kits

Nos 750 10.595 - - - - - - - - 750 10.595

6Animal driven implements Nos 155 3.875 - - - - - - 38 0.83 193 4.7057Power thresher Nos 13 1.560 - - - - - - 1 0.14 14 1.78PP equipments manually Nos 1309 7.397 2790 16.31 - - 443 5.38 95 0.64 4637 29.739Zero Till seed drills/multi crop

planterNos - - 5 0.75 - - - - - - 5 0.75

10Rotavators and other machinery

Nos - - 11 3.3 - - 25 3.46 - - 36 6.76

11Power Machniery upto 20 BHP

Nos - - - - 4 2.4 - - - - 4 2.4

12Power machinery above 20 BHP

Nos - - - - 6 8.08 - - - - 6 8.08

13Agri business center Nos - - - - - - 3 15.00 - - 3 1514OtherFarm Machniery Nos - - - - - - 3 1.45 - - 3 1.45

Total 2509 99.513 2806 20.36 10 10.48 474 25.29 134 1.61 5933 157.256

Problem Areas

• The present farm power availability can be improved by strengthening farm mechanization programme in the state and bring it to optimal level.

• intensive field demonstration and financial assistance at a higher rate is needed to the farmers of the state

• Different incentives for same machinery under different schemes in some cases.(Sprinkler Sets -Rs. 7500/Ha under NFSM

- 50% of Indicative Cost under NMMI; Tractors -25% subsidy to max of Rs.45,000 under MMA up

to 40 HP but -Rs.1.50 lakh for Power machines with of more than 20

HP under HMNEH)

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Zonal Conference on Agriculture Inputs – Rabi Campaign 2012-13 New Delhi 14 th Sept.2012