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

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
There is also the alternative of not providing a livelihood subsidy but providing a
livelihood loan which the farmer returns after five years in three annual tranches.
This would reduce the effective cost of the program to the government but would
entail significant additional complexity in terms of creating the on-ground
capability to recover funds after five years.
8. ISSUES RELATED TO ORGANIC CULTIVATION
There is a substantial additional benefit of getting the farmer to move from
inorganic to organic cultivation of fruits. This is because the sale price realization
of organic crops is about 50 % more than the inorganic versions, mostly in metro
politic cities..The awareness of consumers to pay on discriminative prices for
organic products vs. inorganic ones is totally lacking in many parts of India.
This problem requires creation of awareness on the benefit of organic produces
among the consumers. According to the Organic Farming Policy 2005 of Ministry
of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, it is very important
to rationalize the importance of domestic market development. Efforts should
be made to develop organic Bazaar as a local marketing programme which will
provide assured organic products, fair prices for producers and consumers
and opportunities for new relationship between producers and consumers.
Simultaneously, the product of organic producer will be linked with Agri
Export Zone. The existing certification system is alien to the Indian farmers.
The procedure needs to be simplified. Approach should be made to develop
‘Participator Guarantee System’ for domestic certification purpose where
there will be interactive participation of small farmers, enterprises, traders
and consumers. This implies a greater support is required from Government to
encourage these farmers who are converting to multi-tier fruit crop model under
organic systemof cultivation.
Based on this, if one takes the base multi-crop pattern of mango + guava +
pomegranate the cumulative income surpasses cumulative cost at second
year itself and nearly 2 lakhs per year is obtainable as net income from 6 th year
which may even attain 5 lakhs by 10 th year. On the other hand, under the normal
conventional pure mango growing system, break even obtained only at 8 th year
and possible net profit thereafter is only 2 laks at 10 th year. So it is evident that
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