The Standing Committee on Finance recommended that awareness should be created about what crops should be grown based on factors such as soil quality and incidence of rainfall. Coverage of farmers: In , 5. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India observed a low coverage of farmers without loans under the previous crop insurance schemes. It recommended the Ministry to ensure coverage of more farmers including those without loans.
Assessment of losses: The Standing Committee on Agriculture observed that the state governments are not readily accepting and adopting the use of technology for assessing yield loss. It also observed that crop cutting experiments are not being carried out diligently. Timely settlement of claims: Claims under the insurance scheme must be settled within two months from the crop harvest.
The Standing Committee on Agriculture recommended that an institutional mechanism be put in place to monitor faster settlement of pending claims. The Ministry revised the operational guidelines of the scheme in September effective from the Rabi season The Finance Minister in the budget speech announced that MSPs for certain Rabi and Kharif crops will be provided at least at one and a half times the production cost.
While MSPs are announced for 23 crops every year, public procurement is limited to a few such as paddy, wheat, and, to a limited extent, pulses. Figure 8: Percentage of crop production that was procured at MSP in Farmers are often forced to engage in distress sales, i. This mechanism does not involve any physical procurement of crops. Farmers who sell their crops in the notified market yards through a transparent auction process will be eligible.
Sources such as canals and tubewells use the flood irrigation technique, where water is allowed to flow in the field and seep into the soil. It has been recommended that farmers move from flood irrigation to micro-irrigation drip or sprinkler irrigation systems to conserve water.
Figure 9 : Sources of irrigation During the period, Note: Data as of February 14, Shortfall in funds: Allocation to the scheme has been increasing over the years, but it is revised down at later stages Table 3. Note: Figure for are Revised Estimates. Soil health and fertilisers. The government subsidises fertilisers through: i subsidy for urea containing N fertiliser , and ii nutrient-based subsidy for P and K fertilisers.
Table 4 : Fertiliser subsidy allocation Rs crore. Nutrient based. Fertiliser subsidy. Prices of urea are controlled by the government, whereas the prices of P and K fertilisers are market-driven. This is one of the reasons for imbalanced use of nutrients as urea is used more than other fertilisers. Overuse of fertilisers could lead to an imbalance of nutrients in the soil and deteriorate the soil quality.
The Standing Committee on Agriculture observed that use of fertilisers in the country was not based on scientific analysis of soil due to near absence of soil testing facilities, low awareness, and over-reliance on urea.
In order to provide farmers with information regarding the quality of their soil, the Soil Health Card scheme was launched in Under the Soil Health Card scheme, farmers are issued soil health cards, which contain information such as nutrient status of soil and recommended dose of nutrients to be provided to improve its fertility.
During the first cycle of the scheme, Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana. The umbrella scheme was initiated in for ensuring holistic development of agriculture and allied sectors by allowing states to choose their own development activities as per district and state agriculture plans.
With the aim of making farming a remunerative economic activity, the Ministry provides financial assistance to states to spend on sub-schemes such as: i pre-harvest and post-harvest infrastructure, ii value addition using agribusiness models, and iii projects based on local and national priorities.
The Standing Committee on Agriculture observed that allocations are not utilised optimally and timely. This is due to delay in the approval of projects and funds by states and consequent slow progress of implementation, causing a reduction in the release of funds. Between and , the production of horticulture crops increased from million tonnes to million tonnes Figure Production of food grains increased at a rate of 1.
Figure 10 : Comparison of horticulture and food grain production million tonnes. The National Mission on Horticulture seeks to promote horticulture by providing availability of quality inputs such as planting material, and post-harvest interventions such as reduction in losses and access to markets. Over the past few years, the actual expenditure under horticulture has been lower than the budgeted allocation, except in Table 5.
Table 5 : Expenditure under central sector schemes and centrally sponsored schemes on horticulture in Rs crore. Budget vs Actual. The State Government expects to receive Rs.
These revenue receipts are estimated to be supplemented by gross borrowings of Rs. Various State Owned boards and corporations and local bodies are expected to mobilize Rs.
Administrative Reforms Sakala initiative is delivering services of 30 departments to citizens across the State in a timebound manner. Since its implementation till January , 1. Karnataka is in the forefront in the country in implementation of the scheme by providing maximum Government services at stipulated time.
Based on Sakala initiative Central Government is contemplating to bring into effect amendments to laws relating to Public Grievances. Subsequently, the same was revised to Rs 32, Crore. As in the previous years, the Commercial Taxes Department is likely to exceed the same. I would like to thank the tax payers of Karnataka for their wholehearted cooperation in collection of taxes exceeding the target fixed even in a drought affected year. Commercial Taxes Department has successfully implemented several e-governance measures in the recent years and in the current year has made efforts towards providing new services under electronic mode and also simplify delivery of existing services.
Provision is being made for electronic payment of taxes and electronic filing of returns prescribed under all Commercial Tax enactments. Further, measures are being taken to improve internal efficiency by converting important functions of the department into electronic mode. For the year , without bringing inany additional resource mobilization measures, a revenue collection target of Rs.
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