Status of National Food Security Mission

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar has informed that The Government is implementing National Food Security Mission (NFSM), a centrally sponsored scheme, launched in 2007-08. The Mission aims at increasing production of rice, wheat, pulses, coarse cereals and nutri-cereals through area expansion and productivity enhancement in the identified districts of the country; improving soil fertility, farm level productivity besides, transfer of technology through demonstrations and trainings, incentives on critical inputs like quality seeds, water saving devices, farm equipments and machinery etc.

The targets and achievements for the production of crops under NFSM during last 5 years are at Annexure-I

The state-wise release of funds under NFSM is enclosed at Annexure-II

The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) Programme on pulses is being implemented in identified districts of 28 States and 2 Union Territories (UTs) viz., Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh in the Country. However, for other crops the selection of the districts is based on area under crop and productivity of the district as per criteria approved under NFSM.

In order to encourage water use efficiency, assistance is being provided to the farmers for purchase of pump sets, water carrying pipes, sprinkler sets and mobile rain gun through the State Governments and Union Territories (UTs) under NFSM. The Government is implementing Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) with the objective to enhance physical access of water and expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency, introduce sustainable water conservation practices etc.

Annexure – I

Targets & achievements for the production of crops under NFSM during 2017-18 to 2021-22:

(In: Million tonnes)

Crops	Season	2017-18		2018-19		2019-20		2020-21*		2021-22**
		Targets	Achi.	Targets	Achi.	Targets	Achi.	Targets	Achi.	Targets	Achi.
Rice	Kharif	94.50	97.14	99.00	102.04	102.00	102.28	102.60	104.41	104.30	107.04
	Rabi	14.00	15.62	15.00	14.44	14.00	16.59	17.00	17.86	16.80	0.00
	Total	108.50	112.76	114.00	116.48	116.00	118.87	119.60	122.27	121.10	107.04
Wheat	Rabi	96.50	99.87	102.20	103.60	100.50	107.86	108.00	109.52	110.00	0.00
Jowar	Kharif	2.75	2.27	2.10	1.74	2.10	1.70	2.15	1.85	2.20	1.54
	Rabi	3.00	2.53	2.80	1.74	2.80	3.08	2.85	2.94	2.90	0.00
	Total	5.75	4.80	4.90	3.48	4.90	4.77	5.00	4.78	5.10	1.54
Bajra	Kharif	9.50	9.21	9.50	8.66	9.50	10.36	9.57	10.86	10.50	9.35
Maize	Kharif	19.00	20.12	21.20	19.41	21.30	19.43	22.00	21.44	22.10	21.24
	Rabi	7.00	8.63	7.50	8.30	7.60	9.34	7.00	10.07	8.80	0.00
	Total	26.00	28.75	28.70	27.72	28.90	28.77	29.00	31.51	30.90	21.24
Ragi	Kharif	2.00	1.99	2.30	1.24	2.30	1.76	1.78	1.96	1.90	1.52
Small Millets	Kharif	0.50	0.44	0.60	0.33	0.60	0.37	0.65	0.35	0.61	0.36
Barley	Rabi	1.90	1.78	2.10	1.63	2.10	1.72	1.80	1.67	2.20	0.00
Total Coarse Cereals	Kharif	33.75	34.03	35.70	31.38	35.80	33.61	36.15	36.46	37.31	34.00
	Rabi	11.90	12.94	12.40	11.67	12.50	14.13	11.65	14.68	13.90	0.00
	Total	45.65	46.97	48.10	43.06	48.30	47.75	47.80	51.15	51.21	34.00
Tur (Arhar)	Kharif	4.25	4.29	4.50	3.32	4.60	3.89	4.82	4.28	4.30	4.43
Gram	Rabi	9.60	11.38	11.50	9.94	11.60	11.08	11.00	11.99	10.66	0.00
Urad	Kharif	1.85	2.75	2.80	2.36	2.90	1.33	2.90	1.60	2.70	2.05
	Rabi	0.75	0.74	0.80	0.70	0.80	0.75	0.70	0.75	0.85	0.00
	Total	2.60	3.49	3.60	3.06	3.70	2.08	3.60	2.34	3.55	2.05
Moong	Kharif	1.50	1.43	1.55	1.78	1.60	1.83	1.88	2.01	2.02	2.05
	Rabi	0.65	0.59	0.70	0.67	0.70	0.68	0.60	1.08	0.68	0.00
	Total	2.15	2.02	2.25	2.46	2.30	2.51	2.48	3.09	2.70	2.05
Other Kharif Pulses	Kharif	1.00	0.83	1.00	0.63	1.00	0.87	1.00	0.80	0.80	0.94
Other Rabi Pulses	Rabi	2.75	1.78	3.10	1.45	3.10	1.49	2.70	1.76	2.99	0.00
Total Pulses	Kharif	8.60	9.31	9.85	8.09	10.10	7.92	10.60	8.69	9.82	9.45
	Rabi	13.75	16.11	16.10	13.98	16.20	15.10	15.00	17.02	15.18	0.00
	Total	22.35	25.42	25.95	22.08	26.30	23.03	25.60	25.72	25.00	9.45
Total Foodgrains	Kharif	136.85	140.47	144.55	141.52	147.90	143.81	149.35	149.56	151.43	150.50
	Rabi	136.15	144.55	145.70	143.69	143.20	153.69	151.65	159.08	155.88	0.00
	Total	273.00	285.01	290.25	285.21	291.10	297.50	301.00	308.65	307.31	150.50
Total Oilseed	Kharif	25.40	21.01	25.50	20.68	25.84	22.25	25.55	24.03	26.00	23.39
	Rabi	10.10	10.45	10.49	10.85	10.26	10.97	11.45	12.07	12.40	0.00
	Total	35.50	31.46	35.99	31.52	36.10	33.22	37.00	36.10	38.40	23.39
Sugarcane		355.00	379.90	385.00	405.42	385.50	370.50	390.00	399.25	397.00	419.25
Cotton#		35.50	32.81	35.50	28.04	35.75	36.07	36.00	35.38	37.00	36.22
Jute##		11.00	9.59	10.50	9.50	10.50	9.45	10.00	9.12	10.00	9.19
Mesta##		0.70	0.44	0.70	0.32	0.70	0.43	0.50	0.43	0.60	0.41
Jute & Mesta##		11.70	10.03	11.20	9.82	11.20	9.88	10.50	9.56	10.60	9.61

# Million bales of 170 kg for cotton, ##Million bales of 180 kg for Jute & Mesta

* As per 4th Advance Estimates of 2020-21, **As per 1^st Advance Estimates of 2021-22

Annexure- II

State-wise funds released under National Food Security Mission (Foodgrains & Commercial crops) during 2016-17 to 2020-21:

(Rs. in Crore)

Sl. No	State	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21
		Release	Release	Release	Release	Release
1	Andhra Pradesh	47.62	101.54	62.54	44.12	38.75
2	Arunachal Pradesh	5.15	6.56	7.20	5.81	8.56
3	Assam	39.28	130.06	105.58	115.005	156.14
4	Bihar	35.62	28.69	46.63	42.61	14.06
5	Chhattisgarh	53.39	69.86	78.58	85.32	53.40
6	Goa	0.29	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
7	Gujarat	21.36	5.00	17.21	16.08	16.96
8	Haryana	10.40	7.96	11.42	3.55	3.40
9	Himachal Pradesh	15.83	12.23	12.11	11.44	11.20
10	Jammu & Kashmir	7.13	9.05	6.21	7.07	3.78
11	Jharkhand	9.41	25.71	44.90	22.15	12.64
12	Karnataka	99.29	96.55	131.914	120.89	93.12
13	Kerala	0.00	0.13	0.00	0.63	0.00
14	Ladakh	–	–	–	–	14.14
15	Madhya Pradesh	185.08	103.80	104.40	187.98	128.559
16	Maharashtra	139.96	152.10	112.56	107.94	6.54
17	Manipur	7.40	4.68	7.44	11.76	4.74
18	Meghalaya	3.15	5.23	4.94	2.82	1.44
19	Mizoram	1.13	2.30	2.28	2.39	17.00
20	Nagaland	10.90	17.75	18.73	16.81	72.84
21	Odisha	34.67	54.90	84.91	75.51	0.28
22	Punjab	9.85	5.43	0.15	0.06	140.25
23	Rajasthan	103.44	85.30	116.27	138.99	5.71
24	Sikkim	3.84	0.00	9.39	5.96	34.10
25	Tamil Nadu	44.52	37.02	55.20	48.11	7.10
26	Telangana	8.29	19.34	9.61	15.05	6.02
27	Tripura	6.08	17.15	17.84	4.25	100.13
28	Uttar Pradesh	92.93	83.10	131.24	79.46	10.36
29	Uttarakhand	9.74	3.83	17.83	7.82	63.87
30	West Bengal	56.02	107.86	92.51	89.93	0.20
	Total	1061.77	1193.13	1309.59	1269.49	1025.27

                                                                                                                                     As on 31.03.2021