1) Agriculture is the mainstay of the Indian economy, contributing nearly 15.7% to GDP while 60% of the population depends on it for livelihood. Agricultural output depends on monsoon rainfall as 56% of sown area is rain-fed.
2) The Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) scheme was launched in 2007-08 to incentivize states to increase public investment in agriculture and allied sectors to achieve 4% annual growth during the 11th Five Year Plan. Funds are provided as grants to state governments for identified priority schemes.
3) Key areas of investment under RKVY include integrated development of food crops, agriculture mechanization, soil health,
#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture# By SN PanigrahiSN Panigrahi, PMP
#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture#
By SN Panigrahi
Government of India is giving more priority for welfare of the farmers. In this regard it is implementing several farmers welfare schemes to revitalize agriculture sector and to improve their economic conditions. Therefore, the government has rolled out new initiatives, schemes, programs and plans to benefit all the farmers.
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#Integrated Agriculture Supply Chain Management #
By SN Panigrahi
Indian Agriculture : Introduction
Supply Chain and Value Chain Management
Understanding of Agri supply chain
Drivers of Agri-supply chain
Agri-Logistics:Inventory, Facilities, Transportation and Information
Sourcing and Pricing
Third Party Logistics and FPL in agri-supply chain
Warehousing
Contracts management in supply chain & Contract Management
Food Retailing and Food supply chain
#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture# By SN PanigrahiSN Panigrahi, PMP
#Government Schemes & Programs in Agriculture#
By SN Panigrahi
Government of India is giving more priority for welfare of the farmers. In this regard it is implementing several farmers welfare schemes to revitalize agriculture sector and to improve their economic conditions. Therefore, the government has rolled out new initiatives, schemes, programs and plans to benefit all the farmers.
#Integrated Agriculture Supply Chain Management # By SN PanigrahiSN Panigrahi, PMP
#Integrated Agriculture Supply Chain Management #
By SN Panigrahi
Indian Agriculture : Introduction
Supply Chain and Value Chain Management
Understanding of Agri supply chain
Drivers of Agri-supply chain
Agri-Logistics:Inventory, Facilities, Transportation and Information
Sourcing and Pricing
Third Party Logistics and FPL in agri-supply chain
Warehousing
Contracts management in supply chain & Contract Management
Food Retailing and Food supply chain
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Studies(IGIDR), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on
‘Harnessing Opportunities to Improve Agri-Food Systems’ on July 24-25 , 2014 in New Delhi.
The two day conference aims to discuss the agricultural priority of the government and develop a road map to realise these priorities for improved agri food systems.
Food and Agriculture Policy Tracker is a monthly newsletter of the CII-Jubilant Bhartia Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence (FACE). The objective of the tracker is to reach out to the membership and build awareness on various policy announcements critical for the growth of agriculture and food processing sector. This is the August 2013 issue.
about agri. ministery, ICAR, National horticultural board, National horticultural mission,PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJNA (PMFBY)
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)
National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
Soil Health Card Scheme
Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
Scheme on Micro irrigation
Subsidy scheme for construction storages facilities
Market Information Service for Horticulture Crops
National bamboo mission
Agriculture is a main stay of Indian economy. About fifty percent population of India is dependent upon agriculture sector for their sustenance notwithstanding its reduced share in GDP of India. Agricultural production is frequently affected by natural disasters like floods, earthquake, drought, cyclone etc. these events severely affect the income of the farmers through loss in agricultural production as these events are beyond the control of farmers. With the commercialization of agriculture, magnitude of loss due to these events is increasing. The important strategy which can effectively address the risk to output and farm income is agriculture insurance. Since independence the various agriculture insurance schemes have been introduced in the country. The main objective of this paper is to examine the growth and performance of agriculture insurance in India. The farmers who have insured their crops during the rabi season were 78362063 and during kharif season were 192794173 from 1999 00 to 2015 16 under the NAIS. Dr. Manisha | Harpreet Kaur "Crop Insurance Schemes in India: A Glance" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25354.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/economics/25354/crop-insurance-schemes-in-india-a-glance/dr-manisha
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Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Studies(IGIDR), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on
‘Harnessing Opportunities to Improve Agri-Food Systems’ on July 24-25 , 2014 in New Delhi.
The two day conference aims to discuss the agricultural priority of the government and develop a road map to realise these priorities for improved agri food systems.
Food and Agriculture Policy Tracker is a monthly newsletter of the CII-Jubilant Bhartia Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence (FACE). The objective of the tracker is to reach out to the membership and build awareness on various policy announcements critical for the growth of agriculture and food processing sector. This is the August 2013 issue.
about agri. ministery, ICAR, National horticultural board, National horticultural mission,PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJNA (PMFBY)
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)
National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
Soil Health Card Scheme
Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
Scheme on Micro irrigation
Subsidy scheme for construction storages facilities
Market Information Service for Horticulture Crops
National bamboo mission
Agriculture is a main stay of Indian economy. About fifty percent population of India is dependent upon agriculture sector for their sustenance notwithstanding its reduced share in GDP of India. Agricultural production is frequently affected by natural disasters like floods, earthquake, drought, cyclone etc. these events severely affect the income of the farmers through loss in agricultural production as these events are beyond the control of farmers. With the commercialization of agriculture, magnitude of loss due to these events is increasing. The important strategy which can effectively address the risk to output and farm income is agriculture insurance. Since independence the various agriculture insurance schemes have been introduced in the country. The main objective of this paper is to examine the growth and performance of agriculture insurance in India. The farmers who have insured their crops during the rabi season were 78362063 and during kharif season were 192794173 from 1999 00 to 2015 16 under the NAIS. Dr. Manisha | Harpreet Kaur "Crop Insurance Schemes in India: A Glance" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25354.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/economics/25354/crop-insurance-schemes-in-india-a-glance/dr-manisha
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Role of Indian Government in Rural and Agricultural marketing.pdfUrvashiSaxena20
This can provide insights into the initiatives and schemes introduced by the Government for the development of the Rural market.
What you'll learn:
1. It can help you know the scope of rural marketing.
2. It can make you understand why the government should invest in Rural marketing.
3. Let you know about various Government schemes for the Development of Rural Marketing in India.
4. You will understand the Agriculture Market System.
5. Learn what are the Government Measures to Improve Agriculture Marketing.
6. Learn what are the Different Government schemes for organic farming in India.
7. Scheme on Fisheries Training and Extension
This presentation could help students, researchers, marketers, and practitioners in analyzing, managing, and strategizing their marketing approach in rural markets.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
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Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
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LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
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Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
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Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
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Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*
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AGRICULTURE
Agriculture is the mainstay of the Indian economy. Agriculture and allied sectors contribute
nearly 15.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while about 60% of the population
is dependent on agriculture for their livelihood.
The agricultural output depends on monsoon as nearly 56% of area sown is
dependent on rainfall.
RASHTRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJANA
A new State Plan Scheme of Additional Central Assistance (ACA) for agriculture and
allied sectors, the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) was launched during 2007-08 with
an envisaged outlay of Rs.25,000 crore for the 11th Five Year Plan.
The broad objective of RKVY is to incentivize the States to increase public investment to
achieve 4 %growth rate in agriculture and allied sectors during the 11th Five Year
Plan.
The new Scheme requires the States to prepare District and State Agriculture Plans
and at least maintain or increase the percentages share of expenditure in agriculture and
allied sectors in the State Plan.
The ACA would be made available to the States as 100 per cent. The funds under the
Scheme are provided to the States as 100 %grant by the Central Government.
Since the RKVY Scheme is a State Plan Scheme being implemented by the States, the States
are required to take appropriate steps for identification of Schemes for priority
development under RKVY.
The State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) headed by the Chief Secretary
approves the projects under RKVY.
The distribution of the funds among the States is in two streams - Stream-1 and Stream-II.
Under Stream 1, at least 75 %of the RKVY funds are made available for specific projects
as part of the State and District Plans.
Under Stream II, upto 25 %of the total RKVY funds to a State are made available for
strengthening existing State Sector Schemes and filling the gap in resources.
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The funds are routed through the State Agriculture Department which is a nodal
Department for implementation of RKVY.
Under the Scheme, the following broad activities have been identified for investment:(a) Integrated Development of Food Crops; including coarse cereals, minor millets and
pulses;
(b) Agriculture Mechanization;
(c) Soil Health and Productivity;
(d) Development of Rainfed Farming Systems;
(e) Integrated Pest Management;
(f) Market infrastructure;
(g) Horticulture; Animal Husbandry; Dairying and Fisheries;
(h) Concept to Completion Projects that have definite timelines;
(i) Support to Institutions that promote Agriculture and Horticulture;
(j) Organic and Bio-fertilizers; and Innovative Schemes.
MACRO MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE (MMA)
It is Centrally Sponsored Schemes formulated with the objective to ensure that the Central
assistance is spent on focused and specific interventions for development of agriculture in
areas of priority of different States.
It became operational in 2000-01 in all States and UTs.
The Revised MMA scheme comprises 11 sub-schemes relating to crop production and
natural resource management.
HORTICULTURE SECTOR
India is the 2nd largest producer of fruits in the world.
It
the largest producer of fruits like mango, banana, papaya, sapota,
pomegranate and aonla.
In terms of productivity of grapes, India ranks first in the world.
India occupies the second position in the production of brinjal, cabbage,
cauliflower and onion.
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India is 3rd in potato and tomato in the world.
India is the largest producer, consumer and exporter of spices and spice products in
the world.
NATIONAL HORTICULTURE MISSION
National Horticulture Mission was launched during the year 2005-06 with objective of
providing holistic growth to the horticulture sector through an area based, regionally
differentiated strategy, supply of quality planting material, production and productivity
improvement, technology promotion, extension, post harvest management and marketing.
Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States was launched during the
financial year 2001-02 to achieve overall development of horticulture in 8 States to harness
the potential that exists in the North East region. The Scheme was further extended to three
other hilly States namely Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand
during 2003-04.
National Bamboo Mission was launched in 2006-07 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to
promote the growth of bamboo sector.
MISCELLENOUS
Central Institute for Horticulture (CIH) Nagaland: The establishment of this Institute
in Nagaland has been approved for implementation in 2005-06.
The National Seeds Research and Training Centre (NSRTC) Varanasi (Uttar
Pradesh) has been notified as a Central Seed Testing and Referral Laboratory
(CSTL), with effect from 1st April, 2007.
India continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world. The estimate of milk
production in 2010-11 was 121.8 million tones.
India ranks 3rd in egg production. The egg production during 2010-11 was 63 billion.
India is 2nd largest in aquaculture production in the world. Fish production during 201011 was 82.9 lakh tones.
The Seeds Act 1966 provides for the legislative framework for regulation of quality of
seeds sold in the country.
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National Seed Mission: The Department proposes, to launch National Seed Mission from
the year 2011-12 with an outlay of Rs.3775 crore replacing the existing Seed
Infrastructure Scheme on account of the dynamism in the seed sector and the experience
gained in the Implementation of the Scheme.
National Dairy Plan –I is prepared to meet the projected national demand of 150 million
tones of milk by 2016-17 with the assistance of World Bank.
Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS) was set up in 1959 with the primary objective of supplying
wholesome milk to the Citizens of Delhi at reasonable prices. Installed capacity is 5lakh
liters per day.
Planning Commission has given in-principle approval to the Mission. Scheme for
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Legislation for protection of plant
varieties and farmers rights’ was enacted in year 2001.
The legislation provides for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant
varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders and to encourage the development of
new varieties of plants.
Kisan Call Centres have been functioning since 21st January, 2004 and working in 25
different locations covering almost all the States of the country.
At present 144 Call Centre Agents have been engaged in KCCs who are answering
farmers’ queries in 21 local dialects.
All KCC locations are accessible by dialing single toll free number ‘1551’ and ‘1880’-1801551’ from 6.00 A.M. to 10.00 P.M.
Agriculture-Clinic and Agriculture-Business Centres Scheme was launched on 9.4.
2002 to provide extension services to farmers on payment basis through setting up of
economically viable self-employment ventures.
To accelerate the flow of credit to agricuture and allied activities, the Government is
implementing a comprehensive Farm Credit Package since June, 2004.
The target of doubling of agriculture credit flow in three years with base year as 200304 has been achieved in 2 years and agricultural credit flow reached Rs. 384514 crores
during 2009-10 forming 118% of the target.
In pursuance of recommendations made by the Vaidyanathan Committee Task Force,
the Government of India had approved a Revival Package for Short Term Cooperative
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Credit Structure (STCCS) which aims at making it a well manged and vibrant structure to
best serve the credit needs of Rural India.
Department of Agricultural Research & Education was set up in 1973.
Union Cabinet approved “Agri Innovate India Limited” an agency for technology
commercialsation and consultancy services at home and abroad.
Decoding of Pigeonpea genome first time accomplished by Indian Scientists. A total of
47000 protein coding genes were identified in genome, of which 1213 are for diseases
resistance and 152 are for tolerance to draught, heat and salinity.
The National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) is being implemented in the
country since Rabi 1999-2000, as a part of risk management in agriculture with the
intention of providing financial support to the farmers in the event of failure of crops as a
result of natural calamities, pests and diseases.
The Pilot Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) is being implemented in
the 15 States during Kharif 2010 season by Agricultural Insurance Company of India
(AIC) and private General Insurance Company like ICICI-LOMBARD, IFFCO-TOKIO
and MS Cholamandalam General Insurance Company to provide insurance protection
to the farmers against adverse weather incidence, such as deficit and excess rainfall, high or
low temperature, humidity etc. which are deemed to impact adversely the crop production.
The Coconut Palm Insurance Scheme (CPIS) is launched on pilot basis during years
2009-10 and 2010-11 in the selected areas of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala,
Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu to cover Coconut Palms.
The National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development (NOVOD) board was
constituted on 8th March, 1984 under the National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oil
Development Board Act, 1983 as a statutory body for the integrated development of
oilseeds and vegetable oil industry under the control of the Union government consisting of
36 members headed by the Union Ministers of Agriculture as Chairman and ten
members in its Managing committee headed by Secretary (Agriculture and Cooperation) as
Chairman.
The National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA) was
launched in the VIII Plan period and has been subsumed under Macro Management of
Agriculture (MMA) since November, 2000.
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The National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) is premier national level
Institute set up by the Government of India in August 1988 to offer specialized Training,
Research, Education and Consultancy in Agricultural Marketing.
NIAM is an autonomous body under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture, Government
of India. It was set up as a Registered Society to cater to the needs of Agricultural
marketing personnel in India as well as from South East Asian countries.
The Union Minister for Agriculture is the President of the General body NIAM and
Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is the Chairman of the Executive
Committee.
In Pursuance to the resolution of National Development Council (NDC) to launch a Food
Security Mission in the country for enhancing the production of rice, wheat and
pulses by 10, 8 and 2 million tonnes respectively by the end of 11th Plan, a Centrally
Sponsored
Scheme
on
'National
Food
Security
Mission
(NFSM)'
is
under
implementation by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation in 17 States.
The NFSM has three components viz. NFSM-Rice, NFSM-Wheat and NFSM-Pulses.
The Government of India had advised the State Governments in the year 1964, to set up
State Agro Industries Corporations (SAICs) in the public sector to act as catalysts in
providing access to industrial inputs for farmers, for their use in agriculture.
Thus, 17 SAICs were set up in the joint sector with equity participation of the
Government of India and respective State Governments, namely Andhra Pradesh, Assam,
Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala,
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and
West Bengal during 1965 to 1970.
India is the third largest producer of fertilizers after China and USA and second
largest consumer after China in the world. The all India average fertilizer consumption
in 2008-09 was 127.21 kg/ha of NPK nutrients.
ICAR has launched ‘National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture’ with
objective of undertaking strategic research on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Cattle Breeds: Binjharpuri, Ghumsuri, Khariar and Motu.
Buffalo Breeds: Banni, Chilika
Whole genome sequencing of Murrah buffalo was undertaken in the country.
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The marine fish statistics of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi was
recognized as official statistics of government of India.
Indian Institute of Spices Research is at Kozhikode.
India currently spends about 0.6% of its agricultural GDP on research and development.
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