About Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana:
- It is first of its kind focusing exclusively on agriculture and allied sectors.
- It aims to enhance agricultural productivity, increase adoption of crop diversification and sustainable agricultural practices, augment post-harvest storage at the panchayat and block levels, improve irrigation facilities and facilitate availability of long-term and short-term credit.
- Implementation of Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana
- It will be implemented through convergence of 36 existing schemes across 11 Departments, other State schemes and local partnerships with the private sector.
- Under this scheme 100 districts will be identified based on three key indicators of low productivity, low cropping intensity, and less credit disbursement.
- The number of districts in each state/UT will be based on the share of Net Cropped Area and operational holdings. However, a minimum of 1 district will be selected from each state.
- Committees will be formed at District, State and National level for effective planning, implementation and monitoring of the Scheme.
- A District Agriculture and Allied Activities Plan will be finalized by the District Dhan Dhaanya Samiti, which will also have progressive farmers as members.
- The District Plans will be aligned to the national goals of crop diversification, conservation of water and soil health, self-sufficiency in agriculture and allied sectors as well as expansion of natural and organic farming.
- Monitoring: Progress of the Scheme in each Dhan-Dhaanya district will be monitored on 117 key Performance Indicators through a dashboard on monthly basis.
- NITI will also review and guide the district plans. Besides, Central Nodal Officers appointed for each district will also review the scheme on a regular basis.
- As the targeted outcomes in these 100 districts will improve, the overall average against key performance indicators will rise for the country.
- Significance: The scheme will result in higher productivity, value addition in agriculture and allied sector, local livelihood creation and hence increase domestic production and achieving self-reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat).
