{"id":17365,"date":"2021-02-05T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17365"},"modified":"2021-02-05T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:33:37","slug":"educating-farmers-on-benefits-of-organic-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17365","title":{"rendered":"Educating Farmers on benefits of Organic Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MinistryNameSubhead text-center\">Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h2>Educating Farmers on benefits of Organic Farming<br \/>\n<span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\"><\/div>\n<p>Indian Council of Agricultural Research through ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming System Research, Modipuram operates a research scheme of All India Network Programme on Organic Farming (AI-NPOF) with 20 cooperating centres covering 16 States to develop package of practices for organic production of crops.\u00a0 Scientific package of practices have been developed for 51 cropping systems suitable for 12 states.\u00a0 These packages involve the use of green and green leaf manures, bio-fertilizers, enriched composts, oilcakes, vermin-composts, microbial consortia, bio-control agents and other bio-pesticides for nutrient, insect and disease management under organic farming conditions.\u00a0 ICAR-IISS, Bhopal has developed biofertilizers\/bioformulations, which can save NPK fertilizer by 10-25%.\u00a0 Further, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau has developed microbe-based technologies for soil health and plant nutrition.\u00a0 Bureau has also developed four bio-pesticides formulations that are effective against a number of soil and seed-borne pathogens.\u00a0 Government has launched schemes namely Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) &amp; Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER).\u00a0 These schemes aim at development of sustainable models of organic farming through a mix of traditional wisdom and modern science to ensure long term soil fertility build-up, resource conservation and helps in climate change adaptation and mitigation.\u00a0 The process of certification of organic production for domestic and export market is regulated by National Centre for Organic Farming, Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers\u2019 Welfare and Agricultural &amp; Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), Ministry of Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Council of Agricultural Research has a network of 722 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs).\u00a0 KVKs impart training on various facets of agriculture and allied sectors including production of organic inputs to the farmers.\u00a0 During the last one year, the KVKs trained 22000 farmers on production of organic inputs.\u00a0 Cluster demonstrations on organic farming under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana is being implemented by 411 KVKs covering 8220 ha area since 2019-20.\u00a0 KVKs are involved in cluster formation through exposure visits and training of field functionaries, Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) certification of organic farming, incentive to farmers for organic conversion, inputs, on farm infrastructure, organization of trade fairs, organic fairs, Education and training is continuous process.\u00a0 Training is provided to farmers according to demand and new developments in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Rajya Sabha today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Farmers Welfare Educating Farmers on benefits of Organic Farming Indian Council of Agricultural Research through ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming System Research, Modipuram operates a research scheme of All India Network Programme on Organic Farming (AI-NPOF) with 20 cooperating centres covering 16 States to develop package of practices for organic production of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17366,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17365\/revisions\/17366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}