{"id":232505,"date":"2023-03-20T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=232505"},"modified":"2023-03-20T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:58:42","slug":"pm-pranam-scheme-states-to-get-rewards-for-organic-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-pranam-scheme-states-to-get-rewards-for-organic-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"PM PRANAM scheme: States to get rewards for organic farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>States to get rewards for organic farming<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Livemint <\/b>on<b> 20th March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union government intends to launch a scheme \u2014 named PM PRANAM \u2014 to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers by incentivising states.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How will the PM PRANAM scheme reduce the use of chemical fertilizers?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scheme will be launched to check the excessive and indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers as part of the government\u2019s efforts to make farming more sustainable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the scheme, if the promotion of organic farming by a state leads to a decline in the use of chemical fertilizers, then half the subsidy saved on that account will be transferred to the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will be some conditions attached to how some of the funds have to be utilized by the state, but the rest can be used as per the state\u2019s own choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How much is the fertilizer subsidy burden of India?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fertilizer subsidy burden has shot up sharply in the current financial year on account of the supply disruptions and price escalation in global markets following the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government had originally estimated only about \u20b91 trillion for making plant nutrients available to farmers at affordable prices in FY23 but later sought additional spending permission from Parliament. The revised fertilizer subsidy estimate for this fiscal is around \u20b92.25 trillion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cStates to get rewards for organic farming\u201d published in Livemint on 20th March 2023 What is the News? The Union government intends to launch a scheme \u2014 named PM PRANAM \u2014 to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers by incentivising states. How will the PM PRANAM scheme&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-pranam-scheme-states-to-get-rewards-for-organic-farming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM PRANAM scheme: States to get rewards for organic farming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,956,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-232505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232505","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}