The new Crop Insurance Scheme is in line with One Nation – One Scheme theme. It incorporates the best features of all previous schemes and at the same time, all previous shortcomings / weaknesses have been removed. The PMFBY will replace the existing two schemes National Agricultural Insurance Scheme as well as the Modified NAIS. […]
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Weather Based Crop Insurance aims to mitigate the hardship of the insured farmers against the likelihood of financial loss on account of anticipated crop loss resulting from incidence of adverse conditions of weather parameters like rainfall, temperature, frost, humidity etc. Crops covered Major Food crops (Cereals, Millets & Pulses) & Oilseeds Commercial / Horticultural crops
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Unified Package Insurance Scheme (UPIS) aims at providing financial protection to citizens associated in agriculture sector, thereby ensuring food security, crop diversification and enhancing growth and competitiveness of agriculture sector besides protecting farmers from financial risks. The UPIS will be implemented in 45 selected districts on Pilot basis from Kharif 2016 season. The cover will
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About the scheme The Livestock Insurance Scheme, a centrally sponsored scheme was implemented on a pilot basis during 2005-06 and 2006-07 of the 10th Five Year Plan and 2007-08 of the 11th Five Year Plan in 100 selected districts. The scheme was later implemented on a regular basis from 2008-09 in 100 newly selected districts
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Floriculture or flower farming is the study of growing and marketing flowers and foliage plants. Floriculture includes cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for direct sale or for use as raw materials in cosmetic and perfume industry and in the pharmaceutical sector. It also includes production of planting materials through seeds, cuttings, budding and grafting.
Season and Varieties mushroom cultivated throughout the year Cultivation is indoor and it requires mushroom house White oyster (Co-1) and Grey Oyster (M-2) are suitable for Tamil Nadu Mushroom House A thatched Shed of 16 sq.m. is required. Divide the shed into spawn running and cropping rooms Spawn running room: maintain 25-300C, provide ventilation, no light
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Agro-climatic Requirements In India, button mushrooms are grown seasonally and in environment controlled cropping houses. White button mushroom requires 20-280 C for vegetative growth (spawn run) and 12-180 C for reproductive growth. Besides that it requires relative humidity of 80-90% and enough ventilation during cropping. Seasonally, it is grown during the winter months in the
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The Union Cabinet in July 2020 has approved a new pan India Central Sector Scheme called Agriculture Infrastructure Fund. The scheme shall provide a medium – long term debt financing facility for investment in viable projects for post-harvest management Infrastructure and community farming assets through interest subvention and financial support. The duration of the Scheme
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एक जातीय मत्स्यसंवर्धन (मोनोकल्चर) 1) या प्रकारामध्ये एका वेळेस एकाच जातीच्या माशांचे अथवा कोळंबीचे संवर्धन केले जाते.2) या पद्धतीमध्ये तलावाचा आकार 0.2 ते 1.0 हेक्टर एवढा असतो.3) या प्रकारामध्ये कोळंबी जास्तीत जास्त 50,000 नग प्रति हेक्टर किंवा मासे 5,000 ते 10,000 बोटुकली प्रति हेक्टर या प्रमाणात संचयन केले जाते. एकत्रित मत्स्यसंवर्धन (कंपोझिट फिश कल्चर) 1)
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अनुसूचित जाती, नवबौद्ध शेतकऱ्यांचे उत्पन्न वाढवून त्यांचे जीवनमान उंचाविण्यासाठी राबविण्यात असलेली अनुसूचित जाती उपयोजना (विशेष घटक योजना) व डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर कृषि स्वावलंबन योजना या दोन योजना स्वतंत्रपणे न राबविता एकच राबविण्याचा निर्णय घेतला आहे. त्यानुसार जमिनीतील ओलावा टिकवून ठेवण्याच्या दृष्टिकोनातून सध्याची प्रचलीत विशेष घटक योजना ‘डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर कृषी स्वावलंबन योजना’ या नावाने राबविण्यास
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