Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
Learn about Non-
Pesticide Management
Use the National Mission on Organic Farming and train and
build the skillsets of farmers to move from pesticide to nonpesticide
farming.
Learn about and set up
FPOs
SFAC, under the Department of Agriculture is mandated to
help identify and set up FPOs based on produce.
Accredited NGOs in the region can support FPOs in the initial
years of setting up.
Facilitate group certification of farmers who grow produce
under NPM or organic methods, based on the farmers’ choice.
Facilitate industrial tie-up for produce from FPOs.
Transition to tree-based
farming
Livelihood support to compensate the notional loss in income
during the transition period.
Work with local research organizations to identify native and
endemic species specific to the agro-climatic zone that will
suit the river floodplain and also be economically viable.
Provide training on intercropping with trees, fodder and staple
crop specific to agro-climatic zone of farmer.
Adopt NPM and
eventually no chemical
farming
Facilitate training from departments/NGOs to move from
chemical to NPM and eventually to organic farming.
Processing/value
addition and marketing
Facilitate FPOs to set up infrastructure for preliminary valueaddition
in terms of cleaning, grading and pre-processing.
Use NABARD funding to conduct administrative activities of
FPOs.
Set up warehouses to store MFP to reduce wastages and get
better price
Provide market information and facilitate price discovery,
facilitate fair auction and prevent cartelized/monopsonic
buying
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