District Superintendent Agriculture Office

🌾 Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

🎯 Scheme Objective:

🔹 To provide insurance coverage to farmers for crop loss due to unforeseen adverse events such as natural disasters, pests, and diseases
🔹 To ensure farmers’ financial stability even in adverse conditions

🌟 Key Features of the Scheme:

✅ Applicable only for notified crops and areas
✅ Voluntary for both loanee and non-loanee farmers
✅ Farmers cultivating on leased land or tenancy are also eligible
✅ 70% risk coverage set for all crops
✅ ₹1/- per application as registration fee
✅ The remaining premium is subsidized by the state government

💰 Liability of Insurance Company and Government Participation:

📌 Insurance companies will provide compensation up to 110% of the premium collected in a year
📌 If losses exceed 110%, the government will bear the excess
📌 In case of under-compensation, 20% liability is on the insurance company, and the rest is refunded by the state government

⚠️ Risk Coverage Includes:

🌧️ Failure of sowing/planting due to weather
🌪️ Mid-season calamities: Storms, hailstorms, lightning, floods (excluding rice/sugarcane/jute), and drought
🔥 Natural fire, landslides
🐛 Pest and disease attacks
📉 Localized natural disasters and post-harvest losses

📊 Year-wise Success Data

📅 Kharif Season 2023–24

• Area Covered: 🟢 476,125 hectares

• Farmers Covered: 👨‍🌾 456,128

• Premium Collected: 💸 ₹0.05 crore

• Compensation Paid: 💰 ₹652.61 crore — Credited to 380,101 farmers

📅 Kharif Season 2024–25

• Area Covered: 🟢 443,336 hectares

• Farmers Covered: 👨‍🌾 433,062

• Premium Collected: 💸 ₹0.04 crore

• 📢 Crop loss assessments completed – Compensation to be credited soon

📅 Rabi Season 2024–25

• Area Covered: 🟢 139,933 hectares

• Farmers Covered: 👨‍🌾 146,004

• Premium Collected: 💸 ₹0.015 crore

🖥️ Registration Portal:

🔗 https://pmfby.gov.in

📌 For More Information, Contact:

📍 Taluka Agriculture Officer / Block Agriculture Officer / Agriculture Assistant

🌾 Chief Minister’s Sustainable Agricultural Irrigation Scheme

💧 Farm Pond on Demand – Individual Farm Pond

🎯 Objective of the Scheme:

• Around 82% of agriculture in the state is rain-dependent, posing a risk due to uncertainty

• Uneven and erratic rainfall results in reduced yields and crop loss

• To store runoff rainwater, farmers can construct farm ponds

• This ensures sustainable irrigation capacity and helps prevent financial losses to farmers

👨‍🌾 Eligibility Criteria for Beneficiaries:

✅ The farmer must have a minimum of 0.40 hectares of land in their name
✅ The land must be technically suitable for constructing a farm pond
✅ The farmer must not have availed government subsidy for a farm pond earlier

📄 Required Documents:

• 7/12 extract and 8A extract (land records)

• Photocopy of Aadhaar card

• Photocopy of bank passbook

• (After lottery selection): Affidavit of guarantee and caste certificate

🌐 Online Application Process – via MahaDBT Portal

🔗 www.mahadbtmahait.gov.in

✅ How to Apply:

1. Select the tile “Irrigation Tools and Facilities”

2. Choose the component “Individual Farm Pond”

3. Select the sub-component:

   • With inlet & outlet or

   • Without inlet & outlet

4. Choose the pond size and slope

5. After completing the application, selection is done via lottery

6. After receiving SMS notification, upload the necessary documents

7. Get pre-approval from the Taluka Agriculture Officer

8. After technical guidance, complete the excavation of the farm pond

9. Submit the site inspection report and completion certificate

10. Subsidy is credited directly to the beneficiary’s bank account through PFMS system

💰 Subsidy Process:

🛠️ Steps:

• Site inspection by Agriculture Inspector →

• Subsidy calculation →

• Direct credit of subsidy to bank account

📞 Contact for Assistance:

📍 Taluka Agriculture Officer Office
📍 Block Agriculture Officer / Agriculture Supervisor / Agriculture Assistant

🍊🌳 Late Bhausaheb Fundkar Fruit Orchard Plantation Scheme

(Special Scheme by the State Government – For Fruit Orchard Plantation)

🎯 Objective of the Scheme:

To assist farmers who are not eligible under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for fruit orchard plantation, with the aim of enhancing their income through fruit cultivation.

✅ Eligibility Criteria for Beneficiaries:

• All farmers not eligible under MGNREGA

• 7/12 land record must be in the farmer’s name

• Only individual farmers are eligible; institutional applicants are ineligible

• Drip irrigation installation is mandatory

🌾 Land Area Limits:

• Minimum: 👉 0.20 hectares

• Maximum: 👉 6 hectares

• If benefit is taken under MGNREGA up to 2 hectares, remaining area is eligible under this scheme

🍍 Included Fruit Crops (16 perennial varieties):

• 🥭 Mango (including high-density planting)

• 🍐 Guava (including high-density planting)

• 🌰 Cashew

• 🍊 Orange (with Indo-Israel technology), Sweet lime

• 🍎 Pomegranate

• 🍋 Kagzi Lemon

• 🥥 Coconut (Banawali, T/D variety)

• 🍈 Custard Apple

• 🌳 Amla (Indian Gooseberry), Tamarind, Jamun, Kokum, Jackfruit

• 🌿 Fig, Sapota (Chikoo)

💰 Subsidy Structure (for 1st, 2nd & 3rd Year):

📝 Required Documents:

✅ 7/12 and 8A land extracts
✅ Photocopy of Aadhaar card
✅ Photocopy of bank passbook

🌐 Application Website:

🔗 www.mahadbtmahait.gov.in

📣 For More Information, Contact:

➡️ Taluka Agriculture Officer
➡️ Block Agriculture Officer
➡️ Agriculture Supervisor / Agriculture Assistant

💧🌾 National Agriculture Development Scheme – Per Drop More Crop (Micro Irrigation) 🌿

🎯 Objective:

To promote water conservation, increased crop yield, and sustainable farming by using micro-irrigation systems (Drip and Sprinkler irrigation).

🌟 Benefits of the Scheme:

✅ Higher yield per drop – Maximum utilization of water resources
✅ Weed control – Drip irrigation reduces weeds, lowering labor costs
✅ 15–20% increase in production due to efficient and planned irrigation
✅ Fertigation – Uniform distribution of liquid fertilizers across the farm
✅ Larger irrigated area – Reduces soil salinity, improves soil health
✅ 90–95% water use efficiency
✅ 30–65% water savings – Major contribution to water conservation

👥 Beneficiary Eligibility & Subsidy Details:

📌 Under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY):

🧑‍🌾 General farmers (Above 2 hectares) – 🟢 45% subsidy
👨‍🌾 Small & marginal farmers (0–2 hectares) – 🟢 55% subsidy

📝 Farmers can avail the micro-irrigation benefit up to 5 hectares over a span of 7 years.

💰 Cost-sharing ratio between Center and State: 60:40

📌 Under the Mukhyamantri Sustainable Agricultural Irrigation Scheme (dated 19/08/2019 & 06/01/2022):

🧑‍🌾 General farmers (Above 2 hectares) – 🟢 75% subsidy (45% + 30%)
👨‍🌾 Small & marginal farmers (0–2 hectares) – 🟢 80% subsidy (55% + 25%)

🌐 Registration Website:

🔗 mahadbt.maharashtra.gov.in

📑 Required Documents:

• 7/12 Land Extract

• 8A Land Record

• Bank Passbook

• Aadhaar Card

• Consent Letter

🗣️ For More Information, Contact:

➡️ Agriculture Assistant
➡️ Agriculture Supervisor
➡️ Block Agriculture Officer
➡️ Taluka Agriculture Officer

🍎 Fruit Orchard Plantation Program under MGNREGS 🌿🌼

📌 Objective of the Scheme:

The primary aim of this program is to:

• Provide a sustainable source of income to farmers in rural areas

• Increase agricultural productivity

• Generate employment opportunities

🌾 Eligible Crops:

Under this scheme, assistance is provided for the cultivation of:

• Fruit crops

• Flowering plants

• Medicinal plants

Eligible land types include:

✅ Continuous agricultural land
✅ Land on field boundaries (bunds)
✅ Fallow (unused) land

👥 Beneficiary Selection Criteria:

This scheme is available to farmers belonging to the following categories:

🟢 Scheduled Castes (SC)
🟢 Scheduled Tribes (ST)
🟢 Below Poverty Line (BPL) beneficiaries
🟢 Beneficiaries under the Land Reform Scheme
🟢 Beneficiaries of the Indira Awas Yojana
🟢 Small and marginal farmers under the 2008 Agricultural Loan Waiver Scheme
🟢 Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers eligible under FRA 2006

📄 Key Conditions:

• Beneficiaries must possess a Job Card under MGNREGS.

• Farmers from the above categories are eligible as individual beneficiaries.

• Each beneficiary is allowed to plant orchards on up to 2 hectares of land.

🌾 Chief Minister’s Agriculture and Food Processing Scheme

📅 Scheme Launch Date: June 20, 2017
📅 Implementation Start Date: May 17, 2022
(For five years from 2022-23 to 2026-27)
📅 Administrative Approval: June 3, 2024

📌 Scope of the Scheme:

• Establishment of new food processing industries

• Upgradation, expansion, and modernization of existing food processing industries

🧊 Value Addition, Cold Chain, and Storage Infrastructure:

• Set up post-harvest pre-processing centers and Integrated Value Chain Cold Storage facilities connected to crop-based food processing industries.

✅ Eligible Sectors/Industries:

• Cereals, pulses, fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, spices, medicinal and aromatic plants

• Special focus on:
  🍯 Jaggery industry, wine industry, dairy, and animal feed projects

👥 Eligible Beneficiaries/Institutions:

Individual Beneficiaries:

• Individual entrepreneurs

• Progressive and capable farmers

• Unemployed youth

• Women

• New entrepreneurs

• Partnership firms

• LLPs (Limited Liability Partnerships)

Group Beneficiaries:

• Farmer Producer Groups/Organizations/Companies

• Self-Help Groups (SHGs)

• Cooperative producer organizations

• Government institutions

• Private institutions

✅ As per the government’s definition of “family” (husband, wife, and their children), only one member per family is eligible.

📄 Eligibility Criteria:

• An applicant can benefit only once under this scheme.

• However, those who have already availed benefits under other schemes are eligible for upgradation, expansion, or modernization under this scheme.

💰 Financial Assistance:

• 30% subsidy on the total cost of plant & machinery and technical civil work, up to a maximum limit of ₹50.00 lakh

• Subsidy calculation ratio for plant & machinery and construction: 60:40

• Credit-Linked Back-Ended Subsidy, disbursed in two equal installments:

  • First Installment – after project infrastructure is completed

  • Second Installment – after the project starts operating at full capacity

🌾 Crop Pest and Disease Surveillance and Advisory Project (CROPSAP)

📌 Start Year: 2009–10

🎯 Objective:

• 🔹 Prevent crop losses due to pest/disease outbreaks

• 🔹 Establish a sustainable mechanism for effective surveillance, awareness, and management

🔍 Key Crops and Survey Period under the Project:

📱 Survey Methodology:

• 👨‍🌾 Surveys conducted via the mCROPSAP mobile app

• Agricultural assistants survey 4 fixed plots weekly, and other officers survey 4 random plots

• Use of traps and lures

📊 Recommendations Based on Records:

• If the Economic Threshold Level (ETL) is exceeded, universities provide control measures

📢 Farmer Awareness Initiatives:

• Conducted via Farmer Field Schools, agricultural fairs, information boards, SMS alerts, training, and wall posters

🧪 Emergency Measures:

• In case of ETL breach or emergency outbreaks, supply of plant protection chemicals is provided

📈 Data Collection:

• Reports of pest/disease-affected crop areas are collected using the PDMIS system

📌 Benefits of the Project:

✅ Timely control measures
✅ Prevents yield reduction
✅ Decision-making based on scientific advice
✅ Builds farmer confidence in pest and disease management

🏭 Pradhan Mantri Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme (PMFME)

(Centrally Sponsored Scheme – 60:40 Participation Basis)

🔹 Launch Year: 2020–21
🔹 A statewide scheme implemented across Maharashtra

🎯 Objective of the Scheme:

• To provide financial and infrastructural support to micro food processing enterprises

• To empower Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), Self-Help Groups (SHGs), and cooperative institutions through access to credit, branding, marketing, and training

• To strengthen research and training institutions in the food processing sector

🔍 Key Features of the Scheme:

🏷️ Projects are encouraged under the “One District – One Product (ODOP)” initiative

💰 35% subsidy (up to ₹10 lakh) for eligible projects

📌 Non-ODOP products are also eligible for benefits

📘 No minimum education requirement

🙋‍♀️ Priority is given to SC/ST and women beneficiaries

🏦 Beneficiary’s own contribution: only 10%

🧑‍🏫 Training provided through district-level institutions

📋 Eligible Beneficiaries and Components:

🧍‍♂️ Individual Beneficiaries:

• For setting up micro food processing enterprises

• 35% subsidy on expenditure, up to a maximum of ₹10 lakh

👥 FPOs / SHGs / Cooperative Institutions:

• For Common Facility Centers, Forward-Backward Linkages, and Capital Investment

• 35% subsidy on approved costs

📦 Branding and Marketing Support:

• 50% subsidy on total cost

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Self-Help Groups (SHGs):

• Seed Capital: ₹4 lakh per group

• Up to 10 members per group – ₹40,000 per member

🌐 Online Application:

👉 https://pmfme.mofpi.gov.in

📝 Individual applicants must apply online
📝 Institutions (FPO/SHG/Co-ops) must apply offline at the District Agriculture Office

📍 Progress in Jalgaon District (2024–25):

🎯 Target: 480 projects
✅ Proposals received: 409
🏗️ Projects approved: 253

👨‍💼 Active Resource Persons:

• Agriculture Department – 24

• MSRLM/SULM – 6

• Total – 30

📞 For more information, contact:

➡️ Taluka Agriculture Officer / Circle Agriculture Officer
➡️ MSRLM / ULB Representative / Resource Person

Maharashtra Right to Service Act, 2015

The Maharashtra Right to Service Act, 2015 was enacted to ensure that citizens in Maharashtra receive notified services from the government and all public authorities under its jurisdiction in a transparent, efficient, and timely manner. The Act came into effect on April 28, 2015. The primary objective is to ensure that citizens receive services in a hassle-free and timely manner.

To oversee, coordinate, and regulate the delivery of these services and to suggest improvements, the Maharashtra State Right to Public Service Commission has been constituted under the Act. The Commission comprises one Chief Commissioner and six Commissioners. The Commission’s headquarters is located at the New Administrative Building, opposite Mantralaya, Mumbai, with offices of Commissioners at the headquarters of the respective departments.

If a citizen does not receive services within the stipulated time frame or if the service is denied without valid reasons, they can file an appeal to higher authorities at the First and Second Appeal levels. If still dissatisfied, they can escalate the matter to the Commission through the Third Appeal. A penalty of up to ₹5000 can be imposed on the concerned official for non-compliance. A list of the notified services provided through this department is available in the attached document.

The Maharashtra State Right to Public Service Commission website is as follows:

https://aaplesarkar.mahaonline.gov.in

List of Notified Services Provided by the Agriculture Department: