Highlights of the scheme
- Promoting integrated farming system covering crops, livestock & fishery, plantation and pasture based composite farming for enhancing livelihood opportunities, ensuring food security and minimizing risks from crop failure through supplementary/ residual production systems.
- Encouraging improved agronomic practices for higher farm productivity, improved soil treatment, increased water holding capacity, judicious use of chemicals/ energy and enhanced soil carbon storage
- Involving knowledge institutions and professionals in developing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies for specific agro climatic situations and promoting them through appropriate farming systems.
- NMSA has following four major programme components
- Rainfed Area Development (RAD)
- On Farm Water Management (OFWM)
- Soil Health Management (SHM)
- Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modeling and Networking (CCSAMMN)
Functional Areas
- The functional areas of the mission are Research and Development, technologies, products and practices, infrastructure and capacity building. On the basis of functional areas this mission moving around 10 dimensions namely seed & culture water, pest, nutrient, farming practices, credit, insurance, market, information and livelihood diversification for promoting suitable agricultural practices. Dryland Agriculture; Risk Management; Access to Information; and Use of Bio- technologies are the focused areas of the mission.
Challenges
- Proposed provision and strategies are highly extensive which is only targeting the big farmers and rest are remaining vulnerable.
- Sustainable Agriculture is based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. But the proposed strategies of the mission given importance of water and largely ignored the usage of chemical fertilizers. The use of chemical fertilizer required more irrigation as compare to the organic farming.
- The mission is lacked by the adequate framework to meet the climate change especially challenges faced by agriculture due to the climate change.
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