NATIONAL CONFERENCE KHARIF 2015

Promotion of Pulses in

Punjab State

Department of Agriculture, Punjab

Chandigarh

About Punjab:About Punjab: Area (geographical) : 5.04 m ha

Net sown area: 4.2 m ha

Total cropped area: 7.9 m ha

Irrigated area: 4.09 m ha (98.3%)• Tubewells irrigated: 2.97 m ha (73%) through 12.10 lakh

tubewells• Canals irrigated : 1.11 m ha (27%)

Cropping intensity: 191%

Major Cropping Systems : Rice-Wheat; Cotton-Wheat; and

Maize-Wheat.

AREA, PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF PULSES IN PUNJAB

YearArea

(’000’hac.)

Production

(‘000’MT)

Productivity

(Kg./hac.)

1970-71 414 308 743

1980-81 341 204 598

1990-91 149 111 745

2000-01 60 45 750

2005-06 32 25 781

2006-07 32 27 844

2007-08 28 23 821

2008-09 28 25 893

2009-10 64 59 922

2010-11 107 98 916

2011-12 125 115 920

2012-13 134 111 828

2013-14 116 100 870

2014-15* 170 145 850

CROP-WISE AREA SOWN POSITION OF PULSES DURING RABI 2014-15

Name of the

pulses crop

2013-14 TARGET FOR 2014-15

Area (000 ha.)

Prod.(000 mt)

Yield(Kg/ha)

Area (000 ha)

Prod.(000 mt)

Av. Yield

(Kg/ha)

Gram 2 2.3 1245 8 11 1375

Lentil 1 0.6 693 5 4 800

Field Peas

1 1.3 1400 10 14 1400

CROP-WISE AREA SOWN POSITION UNDER PULSES DURING KHARIF 2013-14

Name of the

pulses crop

2013-14 TARGET FOR 2014-15

Area (000 ha.)

Prod.(000 mt)

Yield(Kg/ha)

Area (000 ha.)

Prod.(000 mt)

Av.Yield(Kg/ha)

Moong (Kharif)

5 8 818 10 9 900

Moong (Zaid)

77 65 850 80 76 950

Mash 2 1 475 5 3 600

Mash (Zaid)

5 3 490 5 3 500

Arhar 3 3 907 8 8 1000

AREA UNDER SUMMER MOONG DURING 2014-15

Sr. No.

District Area in ha.

Sr. No.

District Area in ha.

1 Amritsar 7000 11 Faridkot 1600

2 Tarn Taran 8500 12 Fatehgarh Sahib 940

3 Gurdaspur 7200 13 Jallandhar 1500

4 Hoshiarpur 6000 14 Kapurthala 1200

5 Ferozepur 4500 15 Mansa 3000

6 Sangrur 8000 16 Mukatsar 1500

7 Barnala 1400 17 Nawan Shahar 2050

8 Ludhiana 17400 18 Patiala 3500

9 Ropar 1200 19 Moga 4600

10 Mohali 700 20 Bathinda 1800

Total 77090

PROMOTION OF PULSES UNDER SEED VILLAGE SCHEME

Sr. No.

Intervention Achievements 2013-14

Targets 2014-15

1. Village covered 500 500

2. No. of farmers 25000 25000

3. Area Covered 5000 ha. 5000 ha.

4. Seed Supplied on 50 % Subsidy

1875/ qtl. 2000/ qtl.

FACILITIES PROVIDED TO THE FARMERS FOR PROMOTION OF PULSES

Seed of Summer Moong is provided on subsidy @Rs. 25/- Kg. Under

National Food Security Mission-Pulses.

Subsidy @ Rs. 7500/- per hac Provided for demonstration.

Subsidy @ 4800/- hac is provided under A3P and Additional Area

Coverage of Pulses Scheme.

Weedicides, Fungicides, Pesticides etc. are provided on subsidy @50% or

Rs. 500/- hac. whichever is less.

New Machinery is provided to the farmer on subsidy

Seed @50% subsidy is provided to the farmers under Seed Village

Scheme for production of good quality of seed

PROBLEMS IN TRDITIONAL CROPING SYSTEM IN PUNJAB

• LOWERING OF GROUND WATER TABLE

• ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION DUE TO HIGH INPUTS

OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES.

• LOSS OF SOIL PRODUCTIVITY

• PROCUREMENT PROBLEMS

BENEFIT OF PULSES PRODUCTION

• IMPROVEMENT OF SOIL FERTILITY

• REQUIREMENT OF LESS INPUTS

• SAVE NATURAL RESOURCES

• COMPONENT OF HUMAN DIET

SCOPE

– ENACTMENT OF PUNJAB PRESERVATION OF

SUB SOIL WATER ACT -2009

– AVAILABLE VARIETY FOR SUMMER MUNG

– TIME OF SOWING

– CROP -ROTATION

– AVAILABILITY OF AREA

REASON FOR DECLINE IN AREA UNDER PULSES

• PROBLEMS OF MARKETING AND FLUCTUATING PRICES LEAD TO UNCERTAINTY OF FARMERS.

• CULTIVATING OF PULSES IS LESS REMUNERATIVE THAN THAT OF FOOD GRAIN CROPS SUCH AS WHEAT AND PADDY.

• INADEQUATE AVAILABILITY OF SEED OF RECOMMENDED HIGH YIELDING VARIETIES.

• LACK OF DISEASE/PEST RESISTANT AND SALT TOLERANT VARIETIES.

• PULSES ARE NOT SURE CROPS AND PROVE TO SEVERAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS PEST & DISEASES ETC.

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR INCREASING THE AREA UNDER PULSES

• DESIGNATE AGENCY FOR ASSURED PROCUREMENT

• NEW VARIETIES SHOULD BE DEVELOPED AND SEED OF

THAT VARIETIES MADE AVAILABLE AT AFFORDABLE PRICE.

• AWARENESS/PUBLICITY CAMPS FOR PROMOTION OF

PULSES

• ASSURED SUPPLY OF POWER WELL IN TIME

• MECHANICAL HARVESTING/THRESHERS MADE AVAILABLE

AT PACS.

AREA TO BE COVERED UNDER SUMMER MOONG

YearTarget

Area (ha.) Production

(MT)

First year 75000 60000

Second year 100000 80000

Third year 200000 160000

Fourth year 300000 240000

Fifth year 500000 400000

S. No.

Name of the Project/Component Unit

Target Achievement

Physical Financial Physical Financial

1Cluster demonstrations

Maize ha 83000 4150.00 15500 271.29Cotton ha 30000 2250.00 0 0.00Popular and Eucalyptus ha 50000 5000.00 2966 1012.93Intercropping with Agro forestry ha 15000 750.00 0 0.00Soyabean 2000 150.00 0 0.00Sub-total 180000 12300.00 18466 1284.22

2

Farm Mechanization & Value Addition

Farm Machinery No. 28061 6079.30 2468 863.80Community Maize Dryers No 5 2500.00 5 2000.00Mechanical Cotton Pickers 3 95.70 0 0.00Cotton Cleaners 1 115.00 0 0.00Sub-total 28070 8790.00 2473 2863.80

 3Site Specific Activities

Underground Pipeline system ha 8000 1760.00 1150 96.00Demonstrations, Collection and analysis of soil No 150000 150.00 6.00Green Manuring through Daincha ha 100000 1000.00 0.00Supply of Gypsum ha 2000 500.00 0.00Sub-total 3410.00 1150 102.00

4

Contingency for Awareness training and

Implementation

Cropping System based training No 1000 70.00 70.00Exposure Visit (Intra & Inter State) 86 290.10 16.05Awareness through Print and Electronic Media 100.00 22.06

Misc Expenses at district 22 37.40 37.40Misc Expenses at state 1 2.50 0.95

    Sub-total   500.00 146.46Total   25000.00 4396.48

DETAILED COMPONENT-WISE CROP DIVERSIFICATION PROGRAM FOR 2014-15