Aspirants 2.0

Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP)

The Union Minister of Agriculture has provided useful information regarding the Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP).

Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP)

🧠Natural farming is promoted as BPKP under a centrally sponsored scheme- Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY).

🧠The scheme mainly emphasizes on the exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs and promotes on-farm biomass recycling.

🧠It stresses biomass mulching; use of cow dung-urine formulations; plant-based preparations and time to time working of soil for aeration.

🧠Under BPKP, financial assistance of Rs 12200/ha for 3 years is provided for cluster formation, capacity building, and continuous handholding by trained personnel, certification and residue analysis.

One District One Focus Product Scheme

The One District One Focus Product (ODOFP) programme cover products of agriculture and allied sectors for 728 districts of the country.

ODOFP programme

🧠The ODOFP programme cover products of agriculture and allied sectors for 728 districts of the country.

🧠The products have been identified from agricultural, horticultural, animal, poultry, milk, fisheries, aquaculture, marine sectors across the country.

🧠These identified products will be supported under the PM-FME scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, which provides incentives to promoters and micro-enterprises

🧠This scheme is being implemented for a period of five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25.

🧠The scheme adopts One District One Product (ODOP) approach to reap the benefits of scale in terms of procurement of inputs, availing common services and marketing of products.

About ODOP

🧠The ODOP scheme aims to identify one product per district based on the potential and strength of a district and national priorities.

🧠A cluster for that product will be developed in the district and market linkage will be provided for that.

🧠It is operationally merged with ‘Districts as Export Hub’ initiative implemented by the Director-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce.

🧠Under the initial phase of the ODOP programme, 106 Products have been identified from 103 districts across 27 States.