EXTENSION
[Link], [Link] (Ag), M.B.A , Joint Director of Agriculture (Extension),
1. POLAMPILUSTHONDI
Polam Pilusthondhi programme was launched as one of the Five Campaigns by the
Hon’ble Chief Minister on 8th Aug. 2014 at Visakhapatnam district with a main
objective to strengthen the extension reach to farmers doorstep for increasing
productivity in agriculture and allied sectors and to increase income of the farmers.
Focused Areas:
Soil Health Cards and Soil Test based fertilizer application .
Correction of Micro nutrient deficiency.
Farm mechanization
Organic / Natural / Zero based natural farming
Soil & Water conservation measures
Tenant Farmer loaning : Institutional Credit to Tenants
Pest and Disease Management
Drought proofing and mitigating the distress of farmers through Andhra Pradesh
Drought Mitigation Project.
IT Services and Mobile Applications.
Action Plan:
The Polam Pilusthondi programme has to be conducted
for two days in a week
Each day two villages have to be covered.
Agricultural Department along with the allied department officials and
scientists will conduct the programme in the villages.
Schedule of the Polam Pilusthondhi programme:
Time Schedule
Village 1
Field visit (Covering the SVP plots, Demo plots,
8:30 AM to 10:00AM
Minikit Trials, Progressive farmers fields etc)
Farmer-scientist interaction programme based
10:00AM to 12:00 Noon
on the observations of the field visit
Village 2
2.00PM to 4.00PM Farmer-Scientist Interaction programme
Field visit (Covering the SVP plots, Demo plots,
4.00PM to 5.30PM
Minikit Trials, Progressive farmers fields etc)
2. TENANT FARMER LOANING:
There are about 15.36 Lakh Tenant farmers/share croppers, cultivating
lands on “Oral Lease basis”.
Categories of Tenant Farmers:
• Landless farmers
• Small and Marginal farmers having small holding of own land
Because of Tenancy Act, most of the owners are not interested in giving
authenticity for leasing & due to lack of authenticity, tenant farmers are
deprived off getting benefits given by the Government.
This is forcing the tenants to get loans through private money lenders &
leading to severe indebtedness.
To safeguard the tenant farmers from the clutches of private money
lenders, the Government has made a special focus for tenant loaning.
LOAN ELIGIBILITY CARDS :
Loan eligibility cards (LEC) are being issued by Revenue Department
LECs - To access institutional credit, Claim benefit of Input Subsidy,
Crop Insurance, Crop Damage Compensation etc
LECs list is available on the Web portal [Link]
Through LECs credit disbursements increased from Rs. 322 crores during 2011-
12 to Rs. 1545 crores during 2018-19
Owner consent for issue of LECs and availment crop loan by the owners are
the main constraints for issue of loans through LECs.
Certificate of Cultivation:
Issued by the Agricultural Department as per the Existing norms of RBI i.e
banks can extend the finance to tenant farmers up to Rs. 1.00 lakh on
hypothecation of crop and without insisting on collateral security.
COCs will facilitate more number of tenant farmers in getting bank loans.
Initiated in 2016-17 and during 218-19, Rs. 1237 crores disbursed to tenants
through COCs.
Major issues raised by the Banks in sanctioning of crop loans to Tenants
Land Owner has already taken crop loan on the same survey number.
Banks are denying loans to individual tenant farmers.
Insisting for security to provide crop loans to tenant farmers.
The branch managers are demanding the tenants for producing no dues
certificate from the service area banks.
TENANT LOANING THROUGH GROUP (RMG AND JLG):
The LEC / COC holders also being formed as Rythu Mithra Groups (RMGs) /Joint
Liability Groups (JLGs) to facilitate them in getting either individual loans by
producing LEC or in group mode through JLGs.
Through RMG group mode an amount Rs. 1323 crores and through JLG group
mode an amount of Rs. 975 crores were disbursed to tenants as crop loans.
With Government Special focus on tenant loaning, the same was increased from
Rs. 272 crores covering 1.34 lakh tenants during 2014-15 to Rs. 5,081 crores
covering 11.25 lakh tenants during 2018-19.
As targeted by the Hon’ble Chief Minister, the district need to initiate all the
necessary steps to provide atleast 10% of crops amount to tenants.
LOAN TRACKING PROCESS:
The Department has developed the software and MobileApp for tracking the
loans issued by the Banks to LEC & COC holders.
The MPEOs have to upload the data of LEC & COC loaning details ON Real Time
Basis.
3. ANNADATHA SUKHIBHAVA:
• To augment the income of the Small and Marginal farmers, the Government of
Andhra Pradesh has launched “ANNADATHA SUKHIBHAVA” on 17-02-2019 to
benefit the eligible beneficiaries during this financial year 2018-19.
• The scheme aims to supplement the financial needs of the farmers in procuring
various inputs to ensure proper crop health and appropriate yields, commensurate
with the anticipated farm income.
Benefits to the farmers under Annadata Sukhibhava Scheme:
• The Landholder Farmer families with total cultivable holding up to 2 hectares will be
provided a benefit of Rs.9000/- in addition to a benefit of Rs.6000/- of PM- KISAN.
• The Landholder Farmer families having more than 2 hectares will be provided a
benefit of Rs.10,000 per annum per family.
• The landless Tenant Farmers/Cultivators will be provided a benefit of Rs.15,000 per
annum per family payable in two seasons [Link] 2019 sponsored by
Government of Andhra Pradesh.
• The first installment to eligible beneficiaries during this financial year 2018-19 shall
be for the period from 01.12.2018 to 31.03.2019.
• The Government has released an amount of Rs. 2,000 crores in 1 st spell and out of
which an amount of Rs. 500 crores was deposited to the accounts of eligible farmers.
• GOI has released an amount of Rs. 663.37croresfor 33.16 Lakh farmers under PM
KISAN and the disbursement is under progress.
Modalities:
• A Small and Marginal landholder farmer family is defined as “a family comprising of
husband, wife and minor children who collectively own cultivable land up to 2
hectare as per land records before 01.02.2019.
• A Tenant Farmer/Cultivator is a landless active cultivator who is having Loan Eligibility
Card or Certificate of Cultivation (COC). Tenant farmers in RythuMithra Groups/Joint
Liability Groups are also eligible under this scheme.
• The Real Time Governance(RTG) has been nominated as nodal department and CEO,
RTG is the Nodal officer for the scheme. The RTG is finalizing and furnishing the list of
eligible farmer families to the designated bank for transfer of money.
• The transfer of benefits to all the eligible farmer families in first installment will be
completed before 31.03.2019.
• There will be stratified review/monitoring mechanism at State and District Level
headed by Principal Secretary, A&C dept. at state level and District Collector at district
level.
Exclusions under Annadatha Sukhi bhava:
• All Institutional Land holders
• Former and present holders of constitutional posts,
• Retired officers and employees of Central/ State Government Ministries
/Offices/Departments and its field units Central or State PSEs and Attached
offices /Autonomous Institutions under Government as well as regular employees of
the Local Bodies, superannuated/retired pensioners whose monthly pension is
Rs.10,000/-or more.
• Persons who paid Income Tax in last assessment year
• Professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and
Architects registered with Professional bodies and carrying out profession by
undertaking practices.
Redressal of Grievances:
• MPEOs have to update the Bank Account Details & facilitate the farmers to approach
concerned Tahsildars and Banks for updation of land records and Aadhar linking.
• The farmers can check the status of benefit in their bank accounts through
[Link] either by using Aadhar Numbers or Mobile
Numbers which are linked to their land records.
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