SME Times News Bureau | 28 Feb, 2020
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi shall launch
10,000 Farmers Producer Organisations all over the country on Saturday at
Chitrakoot.
Nearly 86% of farmers are small and marginal with
average land holdings in the country being less than 1.1 hectare.
These small, marginal and landless farmers face
tremendous challenges during agriculture production phase such as for access to
technology, quality seed, fertilizers and pesticides including requisite
finances.
They also face tremendous challenges in marketing
their produce due to lack of economic strength.
FPOs help in collectivization of such small,
marginal and landless farmers in order to give them the collective strength to
deal with such issues.
Members of the FPO will manage their activities
together in the organization to get better access to technology, input, finance
and market for faster enhancement of their income.
The event shall also witness the completion of
one year of the launch of PM-KISAN scheme.
Modi Government has launched the Pradhan
MantriKisanSammanNidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme as an income support scheme for
farmers to enable them to take care of expenses related to agriculture and
allied activities as well as domestic needs.
Under the Scheme, benefit is provided to the
eligible beneficiary to the tune of Rs.6000/- per year. It is payable in three
4-monthly instalments of Rs.2000/- each.
The payment is made online directly into the bank
accounts of the eligible beneficiaries under Direct Benefit Transfer mode.
The Scheme was launched on 24th February, 2019
and has successfully completed one year of implementation on 24th February,
2020.
In a historic decision in its first cabinet
meeting Modi 2.0 Government has decided to extend the PM-KISAN scheme to all
the farmers.
The Prime Minister shall also be launching a
saturation drive for distribution of Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) to all the
beneficiaries under the PM-KISAN Scheme, on the 29th February 2020.
Over 6.5 Crore of the approximately 8.5 Crore
beneficiaries under PM-KISAN Scheme, possess the Kisan Credit Cards.
The saturation drive shall ensure that the
remaining about 2 Crore PM-KISAN beneficiaries are also distributed the Kisan
Credit Cards.
A 15 day special drive has been launched from
12th February to 26th February to provide access to concessional institutional
credit to all the PM-KISAN beneficiaries wherein a simple one page form has to
be filled with the basic data including bank account number, land record
details and a simple declaration that he is presently not a beneficiary of KCC
from any other bank branch.
All PM-KISAN beneficiaries where applications are
received till 26th February will be called to the bank branches on 29th
February for handing over the Kisan Credit Cards.