{"id":110552,"date":"2021-06-04T18:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=110552"},"modified":"2021-06-04T18:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:07:53","slug":"govt-launches-seed-minikit-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-launches-seed-minikit-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt Launches &#8220;Seed Minikit Programme&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture has launched the Seed Minikit Programme.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Seed Minikit Programme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Seed Minikit Programme <\/strong>aims to distribute high yielding varieties of seeds of pulses and oilseeds to farmers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Agencies: <\/strong>The seed mini-kits are being provided by the following central agencies &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>National Seeds Corporation(NCS)<\/li>\n<li>NAFED<\/li>\n<li>Gujarat State Seeds Corporation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding: <\/strong>The programme is wholly funded by the Center through the National Food Security Mission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>This programme is a major tool for introducing new varieties of seeds in fields and instrumental in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">increasing the seed replacement rate<\/span>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Seed Replacement Rate (SRR): <\/strong>Out of the total area of a crop planted in a season, SRR is the percentage of total area sown using certified\/quality seeds other than the farm-saved seed (the practice of saving seeds to plant in the next season).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Pulses and Oilseeds Production in India:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Government of India <\/strong>in collaboration with states has been implementing programmes to enhance the production of pulses and oilseeds under the National Food Security Mission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Since 2014-15, <\/strong>there has been a renewed focus on increasing the production of pulses and oilseeds. The efforts have <strong>yielded good results<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oilseeds production <\/strong>has increased from 27.51 million tonnes in 2014-15 to 36.57million tonnes in 2020-21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the other hand, <\/strong>pulses production has increased from 17.15 million tonnes in 2014-15 to 25.56 million tonnes in 2020-21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, India still <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-increasing-prices-of-edible-oil-needs-government-intervention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imports a lot of pulses and edible oils<\/a> to meet domestic demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About National Food Security Mission(NFSM):<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The National Food Security Mission(NFSM) <\/strong>was launched in 2007-08 by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To increase the production of rice, wheat and pulses through\n<ul>\n<li>area expansion and productivity enhancement<\/li>\n<li>restoring soil fertility and productivity<\/li>\n<li>Creating employment opportunities and<\/li>\n<li>enhancing farm level economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coarse cereals <\/strong>were also included in the Mission from 2014-15 under NFSM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1723864\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Ministry of Agriculture has launched the Seed Minikit Programme. About Seed Minikit Programme: Seed Minikit Programme aims to distribute high yielding varieties of seeds of pulses and oilseeds to farmers. Nodal Agencies: The seed mini-kits are being provided by the following central agencies &#8211; National Seeds Corporation(NCS) NAFED Gujarat State&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-launches-seed-minikit-programme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt Launches &#8220;Seed Minikit Programme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,956,9,959],"tags":[1285,1314],"class_list":["post-110552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-agri_0","tag-agri_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700426726},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}