SUVARNA BHOOMI YOJANA

Sanjeev kumar.s AK 8098

Suvarna Bhoomi Yojana in Dakshina kannada dristrict

Suvarna Bhoomi Yojana will be launched in the state on April 1, for which the state government has earmarked Rs 1,000 crore in the budget. He said according to CM s new scheme, 10 lakh small and marginal farmer families would be given Rs 10,000 each as incentive to take up horticulture, sericulture, natural and dairy farming.

He said that in Dakshina kannada district around 27841 small and marginal farmers will get the benefit out of which 5568 are schedule caste, 2784 are schedule tribe and 19481 are general beneficiaries. There is 33 percent reservation for Women farmers. If the number of applications from the women farmers are less then it will consider to men, he said. Speaking on the Fishing department, he said that the farmers related to fishing department must clean and recreate the lake for the artificial hybrid of the fishes. The new will also give financial assistance of Rs 10,000 to them, he added.

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Pointing towards the Horticulture department, DC said that according to the order given by the director of Horticulture the programme must be successful under the implementation of Taluk nodle officer. Altogether around 6960 beneficiaries will get the news scheme, out of which 1392 from Schedule Caste, 696 from Schedule Tribe and 4872 from general category from taluks like Mangalore, Bantwal, Puttur, Sullia and Belthangady. According to the scheme, families of small and marginal farmers (holding below five acres of land) would be given a financial aid of Rs. 10,000 a year in two instalments for raising crops in up to an extent of two acres.

Suvarna Bhoomi Yojana in Kolar

The project provides farmers with a subsidy of up to Rs 10,000 to develop their farms to get more yield from cost-effective crops such as oil seeds, commercial crops, jatropha, horticulture crops and sericulture.

Farmers from other districts have already submitted applications, the the administration is not accepting applications in the districts due to the election. According to an estimate, of the total 1,797 villages in the five taluks of the district, there are 59,500 small farmers and 1,45,506 are marginal farmers. The project is eligible for farmers who have five acres of land with sufficient water facility. Although, the number of eigible farmers are in lakhs, only 35,000 farmers will be selected to the project. Farmers will be selected in seven divisions in the taluk. However, in the six divisions the district authorities aim to select 33,236 farmers - 5,363 SC farmers, 2,965 ST farmers and 2,965 farmers belong to general category.

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Bee keepers are yet to be taken into consideration for the project who would account for the remaining target number, said the sources. If the applications exceed the fixed target, the authorities might select the farmer through lottery. Although, the wait of farmers might end on May 15, if Kolar Gold Fields Legislator Y Sampangi faces set back in his disqualification case, there might be by-poll again in the constituency, which would further delay the project, farmers fear.

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Under the Suvarna Bhoomi Yojana, 10 lakh farmers with land holding under 2 acres will be given Rs 10,000. They will also get loans at 1 per cent interest. Other allocations include Rs 200 crore to promote organic farming and Rs 40 crore to improve soil fertility in the state and the regularisation of 1 lakh unauthorised irrigation pump sets at a cost of Rs 100 crore. Further allocations include social security pension and food subsidy, among a host of other programmes for the farming community.

Suvarna Bhoomi Yojana in Hyderabad Karnataka region

The Karnataka State Biofuel Development Board has launched a campaign to encourage small and marginal farmers to cultivate biofuel plants. This includes cultivating biofuel plants on the bunds of their land or taking up full-time cultivation of these plants using the assistance of Rs. 10,000 provided under the Suvarna Bhoomi Yojana (SBY) by the State Government. Sources in the board told The Hindu here on Wednesday that cultivation of biofuel plants either as a main crop or on bunds would be a good proposition for small and marginal farmers. It was easy to cultivate biofuel plants, which grow even on wastelands and needed little care.

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The sources said farmers in their applications needed to mention that they would use the assistance for biofuel programme activities and once their application was approved, the Government would release Rs. 5,000 as the first instalment. The amount should be used to buy saplings of biofuel plants available at subsidised rates at the Forest Department, the University of Agricultural Sciences and Agriculture Research Centres. These saplings should be planted either as a main crop or on the bunds.

Selling the produce

Planting these plants on the bunds in fields would prevent the wash-off of the top soil during rain. Oilseeds from these plants can be sold directly to procurement centres. If the farmer extracts oil using his own crusher, he can either sell the oil to the procurement centre for refinement or use them for running tractors, water pump sets or generators. Also, oilcake can be used to enrich fields.

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According to the sources, an increase in the cultivation of biofuel plants would also increase the green cover, which would help in protecting the environment and bringing up groundwater levels.

Potential areas
The Hyderabad Karnataka region had potential to take up massive cultivation of biofuel plants, and the board in collaboration with the Hyderabad Karnataka Area Development Board, Gulbarga University and the Hyderabad Karnataka Development Centre had decided to promote this initiative in at least one lakh hectares of wasteland identified in Gulbarga, Bidar, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal and Bellary districts. The biofuel board had prepared an action plan for spending Rs. 30 crore to Rs. 35 crore every year for the next 10 years, covering at least 10,000 hectares of wasteland with about 50 lakh saplings of biofuel plants. The biofuel plants to be used included Pongamia, Neem, Simarauba and Jatropha, as they were best suited for the weather conditions of the regio

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