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A NOTE FROM ZILLA PARISHAD
To rejuvenate agriculture during this Five year plan the National
Development Council has reaffirmed its commitment to achieve a growth rate of
4% per annum. As Agriculture growth is an essential element of the strategy to make growth more inclusive, the NDC advised the State Government to prepare
Comprehensive District Agriculture plan(C-DAP) that will fully utilize available resources and will include allied agriculture sectors, under RKVY.
As per Manual of Guidelines of RKVY, the C-DAP, Dibrugarh has been prepared covering all the sectors essential for economic upliftment of farmers of the district. It includes Veterinary, Fishery, Sericulture, Handloom &
Weaving, Industry, Dairy, along with Agriculture, Horticulture, Agril.
Engineering ang Agril. Research. The Plan contains an analysis of the existing situation with the needs and potentials. The C-DAP prepared is considered to be an useful document for the targeted growth of agriculture and allied sectors.
I personally hope that implementation of the schemes of C-DAP in proper coordination of the departments with the Panchayats will bring noticeable changes to the farming community of the district in the coming years.
I thank Officers of District Agricultural office, Dibrugarh for their efforts to complete the C-DAP along with all formalities.
President
Zilla Parishad, Dibrugarh
PREFACE
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Concerned by the slow growth in Agriculture and allied sectors, National
Development Council resolved that a special Additional Central assistance Scheme (RKVY) be launched where agriculture development strategies are to be reoriented to meet the needs of farmers of various sectors. Accordingly Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan(C-DAP) of each district are asked to be prepared involving Panchayati Raj Institution at Village level(GP), Block level(AP) and District level(ZP).
As per manual of guidelines of RKVY,C-DAP of Dibrugarh district is prepared by compiling the Anchalik Panchayat Plans which were in turn prepared by compiling the Gaon
Panchayat Plans. In the process of preparation of the Gaon Panchayat Plans, the Village level
Extension workers(VLEW) of the department have helped a lot to give a shape to the plan from village wise survey to planning exercises. The Agril Development Officers also helped in the process by guiding the VLEWs and preparing the Anchalik Panchayat Plans. I would like to thank both of them for their services in completion of the GP and AP Plans. I would also like to thank the District AH & Vety Officer, District Fishery Dev. Officer, Asstt.
Director of Sericulture, Asstt. Director of Handloom & Weaving, Asstt. Executive
Engineer(Agri), General Manager, DICC, Asstt. Dairy Dev. Officer, and Programme
Coordinator, KVK, Dibrugarh for their constant help in preparation of the C-DAP.
Dr. PK Mahanta, Sr. ADO(PP) of District Agril. Office, Sri H. Ojah, SMS(PBG) and Sri S. Sakia SMS(TH&T) of KVK, Romai took the pain of C-DAP preparation constantly right from training part to the completion of the Plan. I would like to thank them for their services for the purpose.
The C-DAP, Dibrugarh has been prepared covering the necessary sectors to uplift the Socio- economic condition o the farmers. I hope that implementation of the schemes with proper coordination of the PRI will bring new hopes to the farming community of the district.
District Agrilcultural Officer
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Member Secretary
District Agriculture Planning Unit
Dibrugarh
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CONTENT
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Annexure
Abbreviation
Executive Summery
Introduction
District Profile
SWOT Analysis and Vision
Methodology 38
Data analysis, interpretation and gap analysis 42
Constraint and solutions intervention, prioritization of synergy exercise (solution)
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Existing projects 58
Programmes/ project formulation with budget 60
District Plan 70
Sector wise summary Table of C-DAP
Monitoring and evaluation mechanism
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Table 2.1. General information of the District
2. Table 2.2: Land Utilization Statistics (Preceding 3 Years average)
3. Table 2.3: Land Capability Classification (Area in Ha)
4. Table 2.4: Land Holdings (Agril Census 2001)
5. Table 2.5: Information on textural classification of soils (Area in ha & in %)
6. Table 2.6: Information on problematic soils of the district
7. Table 2.7: Data on Weather (Available normal) 2008,
8. Table 2.8 : Information on area of important agricultural commodities in ha
9. Table 2.9: Comparative statement of Productivity of Major crops (2008-09)
10. Table 2.10 : Information on area , production and productivity of important Horticultural crops.
11. Table 2.11: Comparative statement of Productivity of Major crops (2008-09)
12. Table 2.12: Information on present status of livestock’s (in “000”nos.)
13. Table 2.13: Area under the commodities of Fishery in ha
14. Table 2.14: Production of fish in tons
15. Table 2.15: Productivity of fish in q/ha
16. Table 2.16: Production of important commodities of Sericulture
17. Table 2.17: Spread of AES in the district
18. Table 2.18:Information on existing cropping sequences
19. Table 2.19: Information on irrigated & rain fed area of the district
20. Table 2.20: Information on Block wise existing agro- processing units of the district
21. Table No 5.1: % Contribution of the district to the state food basket
22. Table 5..2 Important crop varieties grown
23. Table 5.3 Seed village
24. Table 5.4: Consumption of fertilizer in the district during 2009-10
25. Table 5.5: Achievement made under KCC scheme for the last three years
26. Table 5.6 Researchable issues relating to agriculture, horticulture and NRM
27. Table 5.7 : Details of researchable issues
28. Table 5.8 Estimated production, demand and surplus/deficit status Of the district
29. Table6.1a : Information on location of existing markets & commodities handled
30. Table6.2.b: Information on location of existing haats & commodities handled
31 . Table 6.3 Details of Credit Institution
32. Table 6.4: Crop Loan Distribution(Short term credit)
33. Table 6.5 : Detail of commodity wise Prioritized issues and solution
34. Table 7.1: Major schemes being implemented in the district
1. Figure 2.1: Location of the district on state map
2. Figure 2.2 Location of blocks on district map
3 Figure 2.3: % share of SC/ST categories to the to the total population of the district
4. Figure2.4: % share of Male and Female total population of the district
5. Figure 2.5. Land utilization statistics of the district
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Figure 2.6: Block wise distribution of different classes of land against net sown areas
7. Figure 2.7: Proportionate holding and area under each categories of farmers
8. Figure 2.8: Distribution of rainfall over months in 2008-09
9. Figure 2.9: Spread of AES on the map of district
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10. Figure 4.1:Agri-vision contents
11. Figure 8.1 Pictorial presentation of share of different components to the District plan
Table 1: General Information of the District
Table 2: Land Utilization Statistics
Table 3: Land Capability Classification
Table 4: Land Holdings
Table 5: Soil Fertility Indices
Table 6: Micronutrient Status
Table 7: Reclamation and Development of Saline/ Alkali soils
Table 8: Data on Weather
Table 9: Block wise monthly Total Rainfall data
Table 10: Source wise Area Irrigated
Table 11: Water Analysis Report
Table 12 : Information on Natural Calamities
Table 13: Infrastructure Available in Block Seed farm/ Trial cum Demonstration Farm
Table 14: Seed Production at SF/ TCD
Table 15: Planting Material production plan
Table 16. Soil testing Laboratories in District
Table 17 : Facilities Available in Agri Polyclinics
Table 18 : Training Infrastructure Proposed for Capacity Building of agriculture and Allied Department staff
Table 19: Proposed Plan to improve Agriculture & Allied Training Facilities for Farmers at Block Level
Table 20 : Planning for farmers Training Programme related to Agriculture and Allied departments
Table 21 ; Service Centers in the District (Agriculture and Allied Sectors)
Table 22: Basic Marketing Infrastructure for Agril Produces (Post harvest Management)
Table 23: Farm level Storage Plan (Capacity – tones, Investment in Lakh)
Table 24: Area, Production and Yield of Major crops in Irrigated/Rainfed condition during Kharif season
Table 25: Area, Production and Yield of Major crops in Irrigated/Rainfed condition during Rabi season
Table 26: Area, Production and Av. Yield of Major Horticultural crops
Table 27: Yield gap Analysis (Block wise)
Table 28: Area, Production and Productivity Trend of Main Crops in the district
Table 29: Planning for Agriculture Inputs in the District – Seed
Table 30: Crop wise NPK consumption
Table 31: Planning for Fertilizer requirement
Table 32: Planning of Plant protection Chemicals requirement
Table:33 Availability of improved Farm Equipments and Machineries
Table 34: Farm Machinery status and Projection
Table 35: Protective (Community Tanks) Irrigation plan
Table 36: Perspective Micro Irrigation Plan
Table 37: Details of Credit Institution
Table 38: Crop Loan Distribution(Short term credit)
Table 39: Loan disbursement for investment ,credit during XI Plan
Table 40: Agricultural Insurance status
Table 41 ;: Planning for Soil Survey Programme
Table 42: Area available for Watershed Dev and Plan
Table 43: Technologies for Insitu Moisture Conservation Plan
Table 44: Planning of Soil Testing Programme
Table 45: Proposed production of Organic Inputs and formation of Organic Groups
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Table 46: IPM Demonstrations in Next Years
Table 47: INM Demonstrations in Next Five Years
Table 48: Varietal Demonstrations in Next Five Years
Table 49: Farmers Field Schools Projection in Next Five Years
Table 50: Tool Utilized for improving Crop Production
Table 51: Crop Diversification Plan in Next Five Years
Table 52: Additional area to be brought under Organic farming in next five years
Table 53:Area Expansion Plan of Horticultural Crops.
Table 54: Rejuvenation Plan of Horticultural Crops.
Table 55: Sericulture Information
Table 56:Proposed Physical and Financial Targets for Sericulture for Plan
Table 57(a) : Livestock Information
Table 57(b) : Distribution of land and livestock/poultry holding in the District:
Table 57(c ): Average size of land and livestock/poultry holdings by farm size
(Number of Poultry per 100 households)
Table 57 (d) : Benefits from family Poultry
Table 57 (e) : Losses in Livestock / Poultry Production
Table 58 : Block wise Existing of Veterinary Institutions
Table 59 : Production Plan of Livestock during the Net Five Years
Table 60 : Proposed Physical and financial Programmes of Animal Husbandry department
Table 61 (a) : Fisheries Information
Table 61 (b) : Fisheries Information.
Table 62: Source wise Water spread Area (WSA) in the District
Table 63: Projections for Fish Production l, seed to be stocked And Hatchery Requirement for Plan
Table 64 : Financial Targets and achievements during X Plan for Fisheries Development in the District
Table 65 : Projected Outlay for fisheries Development during Plan
Table 66 : Agro Processing Unit in the District (including sugar, Milk, Silk, etc., related to agriculture only)
Table 69: Product wise no. of SSI Units in the District
Table 71: Progress during X Plan under District Industrial Centre
Table 72 : Action Plan of DIC for Plan
Table 73 : Financial Achievements during X Plan and Projection For XI Plan for Development of
Handlooms
and Textiles
Table 74 : Details of the Proposed Industries Under Handlooms and Textiles
Table 75: Group organization
Table 76 :Financial Targets and Achievement during X PlanPeriod in the District Under District Sector schemes
Table 77 :Financial Targets and Achievement during X Plan Period of the District Under District State
Sector
Schemes
Annexure I – Signatures of DAPU Members in the meeting held on 14.09.09 at Conference Hall of Zilla
Parishad , Dibrugarh
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AACP Assam Agriculture Competitive project
AAU Assam Agricultural University
ABY
AI
Assam Bikas Yojona
Artificial Insemination
ALDA Assam Livestock Dev. Agency
ASCAD Assam State Control for Animal Disease
ATMA Agriculture Technology Management Agency
BAPU Block Agricultural; Planning Unit
CB Cross Bred
CDAP Comprehensive District Agricultural Plan
CIG Commodity Interest Group
CRF
CRS
Calamity Relief Fund
Citrus Research Station
DADS District Agriculture Development Strategy
DAPU District Agricultural Planning Unit
FFDA Fish Farmers Dev. Agency
FIG
FLD
HYV
ICT
IFS
INM
IPM
IPNS
KCC
KVK
MAP
Farmers Interest Group
Front Line Demonstration
High Yielding Varities
Information and Communication Technology
Integrated Farming System
Integrated Nutrient Management
Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Plant Nutrient System
Kisan Credit Card
Krishi Vigyan Kendra
Medicinal and Aromatic Plant
MMMA Macro Management Mode in Agriculture
MT Metric Tonnne
NFDB National Fisheries Dev. Board
NRM Natural Resource Management
NREGS National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
OFT On Farm Trial
PPP Public-Private Partnership
RH Relative Humidity
RKVY Rashtriya Kishi Vikash Yojona
SC
SHG
Schedule Caste
Self Help Group
SRR
ST
STW
Seed Replacement Rate
Schedule Tribe
Shallow Tube well
SWOT Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat
TMIDH Technology Mission for Integrated Dev of Horticulture
TSI Technical Support Institute
VCF
ZP
Venture Capital Fund
Zilla Parishad
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The unexpected slow growth rate in agriculture and allied sector in recent times forces the National Development Council to rethink about the policy and schemes. Accordingly NDC passed a resolution in order to achieved the targeted 4% growth rate during the 11 th five-year plan period. As agriculture growth is an essential element of the strategy to make growth more inclusive, the NDC in its resolution advised the state government to prepare a Comprehensive
District Agriculture Plan (C-DAP) that will fully utilize available resources and will include allied agricultural sectors. The Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of
Agriculture in compliance of the said resolution and in consultation with the Planning
Commission, has prepared the guidelines for the Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY). For the planning process of RKVY, each District is required to formulate a Comprehensive District
Agriculture Plan (C-DAP) .The District Agricultural Plans is not the usual aggregation of the existing schemes but aims at moving towards projecting the requirements for development of agriculture and allied sectors of the district. These plans will present the vision for
Agriculture and allied sectors within the overall development perspective of the district. The
District Agriculture Plans would present the financial requirement and the sources of financing the agriculture development plans in a comprehensive way. Since RKVY is conditional to proper District Planning and Planning Commission has already circulated guidelines for District Planning in line with Constitutional requirements, these requirements are adhered to as far as possible. The C-DAP includes animal husbandry & fishery, minor irrigation projects, rural development works, agricultural marketing schemes and schemes for water harvesting and conservation, etc. keeping in view the natural resources and technological possibilities in each district.
The objective of district planning is to design an integrated and participatory action plan for the development of local area in general and agriculture and allied sectors in particular. The planning process is initiated at grassroots level for which the base level data from the
Panchayats have been collected. The objectives of comprehensive district agricultural plan are: a) To prepare a C-DAP through participatory process involving various organizations and stakeholders. b) To enable optimum utilization of scarce natural, physical & financial resources. c) To assess and plan for the infrastructure required to support the agriculture development. d) To establish linkages with the required institutional support services, like credit, technology transfer, ICT, research etc. e) To evolve an action plan for achieving sustainable agricultural growth with food security
and cropping system that will improve farmers’ income
The methodology of C-DAP has focused on understanding the latent potential of the district for development and identifying initiatives required. These potentials are treated as goals to be achieved with the available and additional resources . In order to prepare the plan, attempt has been made to prepare a statistical profile of the district which led to the understanding of the development perspective of the district. Considering these the district vision was developed and the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis was carried out.
District Agriculture Planning Unit (DAPU) at the district level was constituted with members as
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recommended by the Planning Commission. The Agricultural Technology Management Agency
(ATMA) at the district level was given adequate attention in the process. The Technical Support
Institution (TSI) appointed by the State Government provided necessary technical inputs and planning process required for the preparation of C-DAP.
The District is situated in eastern part of Assam and Agro climatically also on eastern part of Upper Brahmaputra Valley zone. The district is located at 95
27 o o 51’45” E Longitude and
21’ 49”N Latitude. The total geographical area of the district is 3,38,100 ha. As per 2001 census, the total population of the district is 11,85,072 and out of which, 9,56,634 (80.72%) lives in rural areas and 2,28,438(19.28%) in urban areas. The sex ratio is 931 female per thousand males. The population density is 351 per sqkm area and literacy rate is 68.96, out of which, male contributes 77. 3% and female is 59. 95%. Literacy rate in rural areas is 64% and
88.48% in urban areas. The total population of workforce is 4,72,419 and out of which, 1,37,008
(29%) are cultivators and 35,862 (7.59%) are agricultural labourers and rest (63.41%) are nonagricultural labourers who are engaged in Tea industry, household industry & other works.
Thus, data shows that 36.6% of the work forces are directly engaged in agriculture.
The total cultivated area of the district is 127313 ha which is 38.22% of total rural geographical area. The total fallow land (including current and other fallow) is 21755 ha (I.e.
6.53 % of total geographical area. Area under cultivable waste which could be brought under cultivation is 7084 ha which 2.12 % of geographical area. The district is having 188692 ha of area as gross cropped area with a cropping intensity of 148 % 23280 ha area of the district fall under very good cultivable land. 19% of this class I land falls under Tengakhat block, which is the second largest block in terms of total geographical area and the largest in terms of net sown area. The same block posses highest area under class II land
( 8763 ha) and third largest area under class III. Class I, class II and class III types of land accounts for a total of 126594 ha of area which is 99.43 % of net sown area of the districts
The total operational land in the district is 1,27,313 ha and operational holdings are
1,51,350 with average land holding size of 0.84 ha (6.3 Bigha).
Out of total farm families,
0.18% are large farmers and are possessing 2.50% area;0.90% are medium farmers and are holding 3.30% area; 9.42% are semi medium farmers and are possessing 31.15% area; 17.3% are small farmers who are holding 28.6% area and 72.18% are marginal farmers who are having
34.40% area. The district has a very distinguishable land ownership distribution pattern where
15907 no.s (10.51%) are resource rich farmers (large, medium and semi medium) who are having 47068 ha of area (36.97%) and on the other hand there are 135443 nos (89.49%) of resource poor farmers (small and marginal) who having only 80240 ha of area (63.03%) The predominantly soil of the district is clay loam which is covering an area of 255062 ha that is
(76.59% of the total geographical area followed by clay soil with 8.78%, Sandy soil-by 7.60% and sandy loam soil-7.03%
Climate of the district can be divided into four distinct seasons viz pre-monsoon, monsoon, post monsoon & winter. The pre-monsoon occurs from March to May. The rainfall during this period remained around to 25% of total precipitation; monsoon starts from June to
August and precipitation is around 53% of the total precipitation; post monsoon season starts from Sept to Nov. and rainfall is received around 18% of the total during this season. The winter season starts from Dec to Feb, characterized by low temperature and scanty rainfall with cool breeze. The rainfall is around 4% of the total during winter season. The Average annual Rainfall of the district is around 2,076 mm.
The minimum temperature (average) of the district goes
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to 9.5 o C in the month of January and maximum (average) to 36.6 o C in the month of August
The relative humidity of the district varies from 52% to 60 % in the evening and 85.5% to 92% in the morning hours. In the pre monsoon seasons it remains almost 93% in the morning hours and 65% in the evening hours.
Paddy is the principal crop of the district due to its climatic adaptability, main staple food
& hereditary in nature of region. This crop is grown thricely in a year as winter paddy (sali rice), autumn paddy (Ahu rice) and as summer paddy (boro rice). Winter paddy is a main crop that is predominately grown in the district over and covers an area of 74124 ha, which is around to
58.22% of total cultivable area. The area under Autumn paddy (Ahu Paddy) was around to
5408ha. Likewise, Summer Paddy (Boro rice) covered an area of 80 ha . The low area under summer and autumn paddy is mainly due to high cost of cultivation and less remunerative return.
Although, type of soils and abundant rainfall are blessing for the commercial cultivation of different subtropical fruit crops such as Banana, Assam lemon, Mandarin orange, Coconut,
Areca nut, Jackfruit , Papaya, Litchi, along with spice crops like Ginger, Turmeric, Chilli,
Blackpepper etc. even than the these crops are mainly grown in homestead gardens popularly known as Bari, to meet out their domestic demands and surplus if any, is sold in markets. A very small area is under commercial cultivation of fruit crops, that too is gaining momentum after the introduction of centrally sponsored scheme “Technology Mission” in the district, and as a result of that the area under Banana is showing an increasing trends with a present area of 1813 ha
At present, district have 416523 no of cattle among which 18676 upgraded and
411047 indigenous cattles. 35325 Buffaloes, 252 sheep, 179162 goats, 578951 Duck. The piggery,
Goatery and duckery are major enterprises in this sector. The reasons for low production in this area are lack of awareness among the livestock producers in rural areas on crossbred programmes of local cows and also lack of financial assistance for rearing of meat animals & birds
The fish culture rearing occupies an area of 8247.07 ha, out of which 1208.48 ha is under ponds & tanks, 5021.60 ha under river water, 821.50 ha under beel fisheries, and 202.60 ha under swamp and low-lying areas. The present annual fish production is about 8146.95
MT and over all productivity is 30.45
qtls. / Ha / yr.
The prevailing mild climatic conditions viz high rainfall and relative humidity are helping for persuading the sericulture as a way of life to some of farmers particularly in middle and western part of the district. This practice gives much higher return regularly then traditional crops like rice. Finishing products are even more remunerative. About 18,000
Sericulture farm families are engaged in Eri, Muga and Mulberry rearing in the district and are producing around to 8 MT productions. Muga Reeling cocoons produced in the district are mainly procured by outside purchasers viz. Sualkuchi.
Based on cropping pattern, soil, Physiography and flood occurrence the district has been divided into 3 different Agro Ecological Situations, with a view to generate location specific
Technology to meet the needs of farmers. The situations are, AES-I (Humid Alluvial Flood
Prone) AES-II (Humid Alluvial Flood Free) and AES-III (Sub Humid Alluvial Flood Free).
The highest area i.e. 1,87,750 ha viz.56.40% of the total cultivable area of district is covered by
AES-I (Humid Alluvial Flood prone), followed by AES-II (Humid Alluvial Flood Free), which covered 1,00,225 ha viz 30.1% and AES –III (Sub Humid Alluvial Flood free) is covered 45,061 ha i.e.13.5% of the district. Almost partial area of all 7 blocks falls more or less in all 3 situations.
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Vision
Agri-vision 2020 of the district envisages improving the quality of life of the rural population, including poor and women, by widening the opportunities and increasing their income through the route of agricultural development. Thrust will be given on demand driven sustainable agriculture with special emphasis on resource poor farmers. Equitable profitability will be given due importance. IFS approach, keeping in view the household food and nutritional security will be emphasized.
To attain and sustain the 4% growth rate per annum the following strategies are formulated –
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Increase the production and productivity of agriculture and allied sectors through location specific, sustainable technological intervention.
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Increase the area under cultivation for high value low volume cops.
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Double the return in terms of Rupees to the farmers and farm laborer in next 10 years.
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Encouraging sustainable land use system.
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Management of natural resources and conservation of agro-biodiversity for sustainable agricultural production.
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Emphasis on post harvest handling and value addition
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Ensuring household nutritional and food security.
The vision, mission and strategy of the district is discussed on the light of following aspects
(i) Productivity enhancement:
(ii) High value low volume crop iii) Availability of quality inputs
(iii) Integrated nutrient management
(iv) Integrated pest management
(v) Natural resource management: vi) Sustainable agriculture and land use system: vii) Organic agriculture: viii) Public-Private Partnership (PPP):
(x) Diversification of Agriculture viii) Drudgery reduction:
(viii) Focus on rain-fed farming system
(xi) Post-harvest management, value addition and cost-effectiveness
(xiii) Empowering the small farmers
(xiv) Access to credit and Risk Management
(xv) Extension Reform
(xvi) Animal husbandry
(xvii) Fishery
The following issues are to be addressed efficiently in order to achieve a sustainable agricultural development and poverty alleviation.
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Infrastructural development
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Natural Resource Management
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Adaptive research on emerging technologies
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Assured and timely availability of quality inputs
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Integrated Farming system approach and diversification
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Skill development and capacity building of farmers
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Drudgery reduction through farm mechanization
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Gender equilibrium
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Post harvest handling and value addition
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Credit management and insurance cover
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Public-Private partnership
SWOT analysis is very much essential before preparation of any plan. The whole planning processes is dependent on the existing situation of the district. During preparation of this plan also proper SWOT analysis was carried out in order to assess the need, potentiality, and any further future strategies to be adopted. SWOT analysis of key existing farming system viz. Agri – Horti – Ani Hus - Fishery and different commodities was carried out on the basis of primary and secondary information collected from the villages, consultation with farmers, need assessment and baseline survey. The Scientist of KVK and officers of line departments did the
SWOT analysis as per guidelines provided.
Various ongoing programmes for development in the field of agricultural are being implemented in the district. The schemes are under central sector and state sector along with some World bank sponsored programmes. The schemes with their own guidelines are being implemented for the benefit of the farmers. Major schemes being implemented are presented in the following table.
Sector Scheme Activity Objective of scheme
Central TMIDH Training, Govt. assistance for
Are expansion and other components
NWDPRA Training, demonstration,
Community organization
MMMA Training on Integrated Pest
Management
Subsidy for Power tiller
World bank
AACP
ATMA
Farm mechanization
Extension
State ABY
CRF
Farm mechanization
Calamity affected farmers
Expansion of area under Banana, Assam lemon and Black pepper to create market accessibility
To develop project area by utilizing available water and to improve economic condition of farmers in group concept.
To create awareness on eco friendly pesticides and bio control methods of plant protection
Improving mechanization in agriculture with subsidy
Encouraging mechanization of agriculture with subsidy
Transfer of technology to the farmers along with demonstration
Provide subsidy for purchase of farm machineries
Distribution of seeds of different crops to compensate their loss.
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Constraints analysis
The constraints of agriculture in the district could be broadly classified in two major head i.e. Ecological and Production system. The plan tries to enumerate some important constraints of the district and the main reasons behind it for different sectors contributing to agriculture. Identification of constraints with their main reasons could effectively be utilized while planning the development process.
Constraints of agriculture
Area Constrains
Ecological Land degradation
Major reasons
Recurring flood causes erosion, silt deposition and water logging condition.
Production system
Soil nutrient depletion
Imbalance use of chemical fertilizer, low use of organic mater and excess runoff
Biodiversity erosion Loss of precious agrobiodiversity due to more emphasis on few selected varieties of selected crops
Soil reaction Leaching of base material due to erosion and non use of proper soil amendments.
Water management Lack of awareness on natural water management system
Low productivity Low adoption of technology
Improper use of natural resources
Inadequate farm mechanization
Adverse and unpredictable impact of the nature.
Poor soil and water management practices as well as facilities
Low profitability Traditional mindset of the farmers
Rise in production cost
Marketing constraints
Lower crop yield
Constraints in horticultural production system
Significant yield gap in vegetables spices fruits, and
Low profitability
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Knowledge and skill gap in production technologies
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Non-adoption of IPM/INM
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Scarcity of water at critical crop stages
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Excess post harvest loss
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Imbalanced use of plant nutrients
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Want of rejuvenation of old orchards and senile plants
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Dearth of quality planting materials
Unorganized marketing
Want of cold storages and cool chain system of transportation
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Lack of value addition and agro-processing
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High cost involvement
Constraints of animal husbandry and dairying
Slow rate of cross breeding and artificial insemination
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Malnutrition of indigenous cows/buffaloes
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Constraints in transportation of LN
2 and frozen semen
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Inadequate mobility and supervision
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Low productivity of dairy animals
Low productivity of poultry birds
Low productivity of small ruminants
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Prevalence of stray bull and natural crossing
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Repeat breeding
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Limited LIs for door service
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Limited bank finance for CB cows
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Want of green fodder specially during dry seasons as well
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 as flood.
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Poor sanitation, nutrition and housing
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Improper health measures like vaccination, deworming etc.
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Non-availability of medicines in rural areas
Knowledge and skill gap among dairy farmers
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Limited insurance facility
Severe diseases
Technological gap in nutrition, management and housing
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Non-availability of poultry feed at reasonable rate
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Limited finance and insurance
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Unorganized marketing
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Want of improved breeds of goat and sheep
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Poor nutrition, housing and sanitation
Lack of deworming and periodic treatment against major diseases
Various constraints identified in fishery development are:
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Lack of ownership of community water bodies
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Derelict water
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Technological gap in improved cultivation
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Insufficient availability of improved fry/fingerling
Inadequate credit support

Limited composite pisciculture

Lack of processing and storage

Limited hatcheries
Sericulture and Handloom.
 Limited area under sericulture feed plantation
 Poor adoption of scientific rearing practices
 Non availability of quality planting materials of feed plants
 Poor credit flow for the sectors
 Lack of coordination between rearer and weavers. .
 Lack of modern weaving technology.
District plan
A major revival package is essential for the growth and development of the agriculture and allied sectors linked to higher investment and strategies to make agriculture attractive and profitable. Different strategies in combination with technology, credit, marketing, risk management and institutional support would be required to revitalize the agricultural economy of the district. In the preparation of the plan, the entire agriculture and allied departments are categorized into ten numbers of different sectors, viz. Agriculture, Horticulture, Agril Engg.,
Agril Research , AH & Vety., Dairy development, Fishery, Sericulture, Handloom & Textile and DICC. Among the sectors, a major increase has been proposed for crop husbandry, animal husbandry, fisheries, Irrigation and Infrastructure development. A total of 3105 lakh rupees have been earmarked for the development of Farm mechanization in the entire plan period (i.e. 2009-10 to
2011-12) followed by 2466 lakh rupees in minor irrigation sectors. These two sectors occupy the first two ranked accordingly in terms of total plan outlay.
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Table : Sector wise summery table ( C-DAP) Dibrugarh (Rs. In lakh)
1. Agriculture
2. Horticulture
3. Agril Research
- Do- (Additional)
4. Agril Engg
4. A Infrastructure
4. B Land &water management
4 .C Minor Irrigation
4. D. Agril Mechanization
5 . Animal Husbandy and Vety
- Do- (Additional)
6. Dairy
6. Handloom & Textile
7. Sericulture
- Do- (Additional)
8. DICC
9. Fisheries
5088.9
4552.53
241.8
198.95
13.4
2.0
102
493
1035
822
385
36.98
163.1
233.4
18
297.6
4482.05
14123.5
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Table: Year wise component wise Break up of the plan
Components
Field Crop
Horti Crops
Soil testing
Organic Farming
Agril Marketting
Fertilizer & Equipments
Nursery Development
Poly green house
Bari Development
Agril. Research
Infrastructure
Land & Water Managemt
Agril Mechanization
Minor Irrigation.
Animal Husbandry & Dairy
Fodder cultivation
Sericulture
Handloom & Textiles
Agro Processing Industries
Integrated Farming System
Training/Exposure visit
Project Monitoring Adm. Cost
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
97.49 97.49 97.49 292.47
70.05 70.05 70.05 210.15
3.6
53.65
12
3.6
53.65
12
3.6
53.65
12
10.8
160.95
36
40.95
30.0
50.0
3.5
33.45
30.0
50.0
3.5
33.45
30.0
50.0
3.5
107.85
90
150
10.5
28.4 18.4
706.78 109.56
603
1035
822
578
1035
822
15.4
105.78
493
1035
822
661.15
14.7
657.6
14.7
265.02 265.02
138 138
657.6
14.7
265.02
138
12 60
153.25 228.62
253.17 254.12
81.98 25.36
18
290.08
255.22
22.28
62.2
922.12
1674
3105
2466
1976.35
44.1
795.06
414
90
671.95
762.51
129.62
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A summary table depicting the components wise total plan outlay along with their respective share to the total for the plan period i.e. 2009-10 to 2011-12
Components
Field Crop
Horti Crops
Soil testing
Organic Farming
Agril Marketting
Fertilizer & Equipments
Nursery Development
Poly green house
Bari Development
Agril. Research
Infrastructure
Land & Water Managemt
Agril Mechanization
Minor Irrigation.
Animal Husbandry & Dairy
Fodder cultivation
Sericulture
Handloom & Textiles
Agro Processing Industries
Integrated Farming System
Training/Exposure visit
Project Monitoring Adm. Cost
Total in Rs lakhs % share to the total plan outlay
292.47 2.06
210.15 1.47
10.8
160.95
0.07
1.14
36
107.85
0.25
0.76
90
150
0.64
1.05
10.5
62.2
922.12
0.06
0.43
6.53
1674
3105
11.82
21.98
2466
1976.35
17.45
13.98
44.1
795.06
0.31
5.63
414
90
2.91
0.63
671.95
762.51
129.62
4.75
5.18
0.90
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DAP
(Rs. in Lakh)
Name of work
1. Agriculture
2. Horticulture
3. Agril.
Research
- Do –
(Additional)
4. Agril. Engg
A. Basic
Infrastructure
B.
Land and water management
C. Agril.
Mechanization
D. Minor
Irrigation
5. AH & Vety
- Do-
(Additional)
6. Dairy
7. Sericulture
-Do-
(Additional)
8. Handloom &
Textile
9. DICC
10. Fishery
TOTAL
2009-10
GS BS Total
256.4 11.1 267.5
180.95
GS
232.2
18 198.95 180.95
18.4 0.00 18.4
10.0 0 10.0
660 0 660
542.7 60.3 603
828 207 1035
661.2 160.8 822
13.4
5.0
102
520.2
57.8
828
0.0
0
0
207
2010-11
661.2 160.8
308 77
274.11
385
319.0
44.94 5
77.5 2.48 79.98
308
38.28
77
270.56
44.94
2.48
148.8 14.3 163.1 148.8 14.3
113.57 10.75 113.57 10.75
124.32
BS
9.6
Total
241.8
GS
232.2
18 198.95 180.95
13.4
5.0
102
578
13.4
2.0
102
443.7
2011-12
BS Total
9.6 241.8
18 198.95
0
0
0
49.3
13.4
2.0
102
1035
822
385
315.5
40.76
493
828 207
1035
661.2 160.8
308
270.56
34.5
148.8
77
822
385
44.94 315.5
2.48 36.98
14.3 163.1 163.1
124.32
113.57 10.75
124.32
226.2
10.8
7.2
1.2
233.4
12
226.2
54
7.2
6
233.4
60
226.2
16.2
7.2 233.4
1.8 18
97.3 59.9 157.2 144.9
4413.93 674.97 5088.9 3847.26
89.4 234.3 184.2 113.4 297.6
705.27 4552.53 3765.48 716.57 4482.05
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The unexpected slow growth rate in agriculture and allied sector in recent times forces the National Development Council to rethink about the policy and schemes. Accordingly
NDC passed a resolution in order to achieved the targeted 4% growth rate during the 11 th five-year plan period. As agriculture growth is an essential element of the strategy to make growth more inclusive, the NDC in its resolution advised the state government to prepare a Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan (C-DAP) that will fully utilize available resources and will include allied agricultural sectors. The Department of Agriculture &
Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture in compliance of the said resolution and in consultation with the Planning Commission, has prepared the guidelines for the Rastriya
Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY). For the planning process of RKVY, each District is required to formulate a Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan (C-DAP). The District
Agricultural Plans is not the usual aggregation of the existing schemes but aims at moving towards projecting the requirements for development of agriculture and allied sectors of the district. These plans will present the vision for Agriculture and allied sectors within the overall development perspective of the district. The District
Agriculture Plans would present the financial requirement and the sources of financing the agriculture development plans in a comprehensive way. Since RKVY is conditional to proper District Planning and Planning Commission has already circulated guidelines for District Planning in line with Constitutional requirements, these requirements are adhered to as far as possible. The C-DAP includes animal husbandry
& fishery, minor irrigation projects, rural development works, agricultural marketing schemes and schemes for water harvesting and conservation, etc. keeping in view the natural resources and technological possibilities in each district.
The District plan describes what the district will try to achieve over a medium term of five years and how it intends to achieve it. The Plan contains an analysis of the current situation of the district and particularly its needs and potentials along with statement of objectives and analysis of ongoing as well as new schemes and programmes within the purview of the district. It also contains an action plan along with the financial outlay with a provision of continuous updating.
The objective of district planning is to design an integrated and participatory action plan for the development of local area in general and agriculture and allied sectors in particular.
The planning process is initiated at grassroots level for which the base level data from the
Panchayats have been collected. The objectives of comprehensive district agricultural plan are: a) To prepare a C-DAP through participatory process involving various organizations and
stakeholders. b) To enable optimum utilization of scarce natural, physical & financial resources. c) To assess and plan for the infrastructure required to support the agriculture development. d) To establish linkages with the required institutional support services, like credit, technology transfer, ICT, research etc. e) To evolve an action plan for achieving sustainable agricultural growth with food security and cropping system that will improve farmers’ income.
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A. General Description of the District
2.1: Introduction - General features
The District is situated in eastern part of Assam and Agro climatically also on eastern part of
Upper Brahmaputra Valley zone. The district is located at 95 o 51’45” E Longitude and 27 o 21’
49”N Latitude. The total geographical area of the district is 3,38,100 ha. The mighty
Brahmaputra flows along the northern periphery of the district. Buridihing and Sessa are main tributaries of the district that are flowing across the district. Southern part of the district is almost surrounded by hills of Arunachal Pradesh. Tinsukia district is situated in the east of the district and Sivsagar district in the west.
Figure 2.1: Location of the district on state map
The district headquarter town Dibrugarh is situated on the bank of the almighty Brahmaputra, which is one of the oldest towns of Assam. The NH- 37 is passing through the district towards
Tinsukia. The road distance from Dibrugarh to State capital Dispur is 443kms. The district is well connected by Air airport, which is situated at Mohanbari that is about 20 kms from district headquarters. The district is also well connected by Railways and by Waterways particularly with Dhemaji district of state and Arunachal Pradesh. The entire district consists of only one
Civil Sub division. There are 7 Blocks, comprising of 93 Gaon Panchayats and 1362 Revenue
Villages. However, the district has 2 Agril Subdivisions with headquater at Dibrugarh and
Joypur.
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Figure 2.2 Location of blocks on district map
As per 2001 census, the total population of the district is 11,85,072 and out of which,
9,56,634 (80.72%) lives in rural areas and 2,28,438(19.28%) in urban areas. The sex ratio is 931 female per thousand males. The population density is 351 per sqkm area and literacy rate is
68.96, out of which, male contributes 77. 3% and female is 59. 95%. Literacy rate in rural areas is 64% and 88.48% in urban areas. The literacy percentage of Scheduled cast is 74.46 and scheduled tribes 85.64%. The Rural Scheduled caste population is 33,107 (3.4% of the Rural population of the district) and Scheduled tribe is 79,771 (8.33%) and rest 8,43,756 (88.2%) is general population. Block wise population figures indicate that highest population of 1,57,111 is in Tengakhat Block and lowest (1,09,497) in Panitola Block. So far scheduled caste population is concerned; highest population (9,213) is in Borbaruah Block and lowest (1257) in Tingkhong
Block. Highest Scheduled tribe population (21,637) is in Borboruah Block & lowest (2,685) is in Lahowal Block.
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Table No 2.1. General information of the District
Block
General
Villages
Inhabit- Un Inhabated itated
No of
Revenue
Villages
Area
(Ha)
Borboruah 189
Panitola 92
Tengakhat 226
Joypur 182
Tingkhon g
223
-
-
-
1
-
155
91
224
159
223
No of
GPs
Male
Population (As per 2001 Census )
Female Total SC
S
T
43369 13 70907 60897 131804 9213 21637
26950 10 59755 49742 109497 7389 4725
52912 14 89059 68052 157111 6224 10648
48828 14 74762 63753 138515 2378 12714
47727 14 73052 63890 136942 1257 7626
Khowang
Lahowal
294
89
1
3
254
86
42723 15 77671 68904 146575 2345 19736
70527 13 75149 61041 136190 4301 2685
TOTAL 1295 5 1192 333036 93 520355 436279 956634 33107 79771
# The data reflects Rural Population only
The total population of workforce is 4,72,419 and out of which, 1,37,008 (29%) are cultivators and 35,862 (7.59%) are agricultural labourers and rest (63.41%) are non-agricultural labourers who are engaged in Tea industry, household industry & other works. Thus, data shows that
36.6% of the work forces are directly engaged in agriculture.
Others
89%
Male
54%
Male
Female
SC
ST
Others
Female
46%
ST
8%
SC
3%
Figure 2.3: % share of SC/ST categories to the to the total population of the district
Figure2.4: % share of Male and Female total population of the district
The total cultivated area of the district is 127313 ha which is 38.22% of total rural geographical area. The total fallow land (including current and other fallow) is 21755 ha (I.e. 6.53
% of total geographical area. Area under cultivable waste which could be brought under cultivation is 7084 ha which 2.12 % of geographical area. The district is having 188692 ha of area as gross cropped area with a cropping intensity of 148 %
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Table 2.2: Land Utilization Statistics (Preceding 3 Years average)
Block Geogr aphical area
Forest
Area
Land under
Non
Cultiv able waste
Perma nent pastures
Land under
Misc.
Current
Fallow
Other Net
Fallow sown area agril use tree crops and groves
Gross cropped area
Cropping
Intensity
(%)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Borboruah 43369 10630 9321 806 670 1867 897 1865 17313 23560 136.08
Panitola 26950 2929 9078 1179 722 772 970 1160 10140 13510 133.23
Tengakhat 52912 4472 17208 928 648 3723 1427 1093 23413 33820 144.4
Joypur
Tingkhon
48828 2841 18148 1098 790 3072 1691 2087 19101 29792 155.97
47727 2840 22864 946 729 2484 1330 1208 15326 21157 138.04 g
Khowang 42723 3750 12850 820 1450 1489 926 1645 19793 29179 147.42
Lahowal 70527 980 29181 1307 1075 10301 1136 4320 22227 37674 169.49
TOTAL 333036 28442 118650 7084 6084 23708 8377 13378 127313 188692 148.21
* Statistics for rural areas only
Source – Statistical Hand book of Assam & Block wise data.
37%
Forest Area
Cultivable waste
Land under Misc. tree crops and grooves
Other fallow
9%
Land under non agril use
Permanent pature
Current fallow
Net sown area
36%
4%
3%
7% 2% 2%
Figure 2.5. Land utilization statistics of the district
Land Capability
A perusal at thee land capability classification table no. 3, reveals that 23280 ha area of the district fall under very good cultivable land. 19% of this class I land falls under Tengakhat block, which is the second largest block in terms of total geographical area and the largest in terms of net sown area. The same block posses highest area under class II land ( 8763 ha) and third largest area under class III. Class I, class II and class III types of land accounts for a total of
126594 ha of area which is 99.43 % of net sown area of the districts. Similarly class IV and class
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V accounts for a meager 1118ha and 646 ha respectively. Figure 4 represents block wise distribution of different classes of land against net sown areas.
Table 2.3: Land Capability Classification (Area in Ha)
Block Very good cultivabl e land
Class - I
Good cultivabl e land
Class - II
Moderatel y good cultivable land
Class - III
Fairly good land suitable for occasional cultivation
Class IV
Nearly level land not suitable for cultivation because of stoniness/ wetness etc
Class-V
Steep slopes highly erosion prone with shallow soils
Class-VI
Steep slopes with severe soil erosion resulting in eroded stony and rough soil surface with shallow soil depth
Class- VII
Borboruah 3565 5923 5745 1535 545 - -
Panitola 1880 4702 2822 736 - --
Tengakhat 4489
Joypur 3382
9763
6866
8995
5974
2867
2755
219
124
80
-
-
-
Tingkhong 3598
Khowang 2815
Lahowal 3551
3065
6824
9260
7130
5805
7284
TOTAL 23280 46948 43755
Classification against Net cultivated areas
1533
1349
1336
12611
-
-
230
1118
-
566
646
-
-
-
Figure 2.6: Block wise distribution of different classes of land against net sown areas
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Information on operational land holdings
The total operational land in the district is 1,27,313 ha and operational holdings are
1,51,350 with average land holding size of 0.84 ha (6.3 Bigha).
Out of total farm families,
0.18% are large farmers and are possessing 2.50% area;0.90% are medium farmers and are holding 3.30% area; 9.42% are semi medium farmers and are possessing 31.15% area; 17.3% are small farmers who are holding 28.6% area and 72.18% are marginal farmers who are having
34.40% area. The district has a very distinguishable land ownership distribution pattern where
15907 no.s (10.51%) are resource rich farmers (large, medium and semi medium) who are having 47068 ha of area (36.97%) and on the other hand there are 135443 nos (89.49%) of resource poor farmers (small and marginal) who having only 80240 ha of area (63.03%).
Thus, it indicates that district has enormous scope for both diversification and intensification with higher technology (resource rich farmers) and low cost technology to address existing problems of the large section of resource poor farmers. Block wise details of operational land holdings are depicted in Table2.4
Table 2.4: Land Holdings (Agril Census 2001)
Block Marginal
Farmers
Small farmers Semi-Med
Farmers
Medium
Farmers
Large
Farmers
Total
No Area No Area No Area No Area No Area No Area
Borboruah 17842 8277 3070 4176 1602 4240 120 411 19 209 22653 17313
Panitola 11056 4041 2075 2880 1143 2979 44 114 12 126 14330 10140
Tengakhat 13176 6350 6300 8190 3204 9261 486 1424 108 1188 23274 26413
Joypur 18360 5678 3740 5610 2344 6548 210 401 72 864 24726 19101
Tingkhong 18030 5581 2980 4242 1795 4615 193 704 17 184 23015 15326
Khowang 14225 5013 3428 4800 2205 6310 124 484 16 186 19998 16793
Lahowal 16556 8867 4605 6540 1965 5710 194 675 34 435 23354 22227
TOTAL 109245 43807 26198 36438 14258 39663 1371 4213 278 3192 151350 127313
Less than 1 ha –Marginal, 1-2Ha-Small, 2-4 Ha Semi Med, 4-10 Ha- Medium, More than 10 Ha –Large farmers
Large Farmers
Medium Farmers
Semi-Med Farmers
Small farmers
Marginal Farmers
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Figure 2.7: Proportionate holding and area under each categories of farmers
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Information on type of soil
The predominantly soil of the district is clay loam which is covering an area of 255062 ha that is (76.59% of the total geographical area followed by clay soil with 8.78%, Sandy soil-by
7.60% and sandy loam soil-7.03%. Major areas of all AES and blocks are having clay loam soil, similarly clay, sandy and sandy loam soils are also found in all blocks. Large area under clay soil is present in two blocks namely Tengakhat and Lahowal in comparison to other five blocks.
Block wise soil classification is shown in Table 2.5. 36972 ha cultivable area is mildly acidic in reaction and 4163 ha is deficient in micronutrients. Information on problematic soil is presented in the following table .
Table 2.5: Information on textural classification of soils (Area in ha & in %)
Name of Block
Area
Clay
%
Clay loam
Area %
Borboruah
Panitola
Tengakhat
Joypur
Tingkhong
Khowang
Lahowal
1850 4.27
786 2.92
12584 23.78
1590
995
3.26
2.08
855 2.00
10572 14.99
37365 86.16
12395 45.99
33850 63.97
42570 87.18
45928 96.23
34358 80.42
48596 68.90
Total 29232 8.78 255062 76.59
Table2.6: Information on problematic soils of the district
Sandy Soil
Area %
Sandy loams
Area %
2674 6.17 1480 3.41
9556 35.46 4213 15.63
995 1.88 5483 10.36
2980
520
1640
6950
25315
6.10 1688 3.46
1.09 284
7.60 23427
0.59
3.84 5870 13.74
9.85 4409 6.25
7.03
Block
Borboruah
Panitola
Tengakhat
Joypur
Tingkhong
Khowang
Lahowal
Total
Extent of problem (Area in ha & severity in term of
M /S/VS viz. “ < 25% is mild, 25-50% is sever &
> 50% is very sever”
Acidic Soil erosion Iron Toxicity
Micro nutrients deficiency
Any others (name be specified)
Undulating/Silt deposition
Area Severity Area Severity Area Severity Area Severity Area Severity
2750 M - - 340 M 550 M 150 M
5959
3943
7251
M
M
M
-
-
-
-
-
-
678
439
285
M
M
M
854
257
350
M
M
M
-
-
-
-
-
-
4762
9501
4806
36972
M
M
M
-
-
-
153
153
-
-
S
-
655
298
309
2974
M
M
M
-
751
693
708
4163
M
M
M
-
-
-
250
400
-
-
S
-
Information on Weather
Rainfall
Climate of the district can be divided into four distinct seasons viz pre-monsoon, monsoon, post monsoon & winter. The pre-monsoon occurs from March to May. The rainfall during this period remained around to 25% of total precipitation; monsoon starts from June to
August and precipitation is around 53% of the total precipitation; post monsoon season starts from Sept to Nov. and rainfall is received around 18% of the total during this season. The winter season starts from Dec to Feb, characterized by low temperature and scanty rainfall with cool breeze. The rainfall is around 4% of the total during winter season. The Average annual Rainfall of the district is around 2,076 mm. The block wise average monthly rainfall of district for the year 2008 is presented in Table 2.7
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250
200
150
100
50
0
500
450
400
350
300
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Figure2.8: Distribution of rainfall over months in 2008-09
Temperature
The minimum temperature (average) of the district goes to 9.5 o C in the month of January and maximum (average) to 36.6 o C in the month of August. The block wise mean monthly minimum and maximum temperature of district for the year 2008 is presented in Table 2.7
Relative humidity
The relative humidity of the district varies from 52% to 60 % in the evening and 85.5% to
92% in the morning hours. In the pre monsoon seasons it remains almost 93% in the morning hours and 65% in the evening hours. During monsoon season it remains 94% in the morning hours and 77% in the evening hours. During post monsoon season it remains 95% in the morning hours and 66% in the evening hours and during winter season it remains 97% to 98% in morning hours and 53% in evening hours. The mean monthly relative humidity of morning and evening hours is presented in Table 2.7
Table 2.7: Data on Weather (Available normal) 2008,
Block
Tingkhong
Tengakhat
Joypur
Khowang
Panitola
Lahowal
Borboruah
No of rainy days
138
125
138
148
136
130
130
Rainfall
Monthly
Average rainfall(mm)
183.50
177.16
184.43
176.33
156.10
169.89
163.62
Temperature
Min 0C Max 0C
9.5
9.7
10.3
11.0
14
9.8
10.5
36.26
36.3
36.3
36.6
34.5
35.5
35.3
Humidity(%)
Min Max
57
52
55
57
58
60
58
86.8
87.5
92
91
89
85.5
88.2
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Information on area, production and productivity of agril crops of the district
Paddy is the principal crop of the district due to its climatic adaptability, main staple food
& hereditary in nature of region. This crop is grown thricely in a year as winter paddy (sali rice), autumn paddy (Ahu rice) and as summer paddy (boro rice). Winter paddy is a main crop that is predominately grown in the district over and covers an area of 74124 ha, which is around to
58.22% of total cultivable area. The area under Autumn paddy (Ahu Paddy) was around to
5408ha. Likewise, Summer Paddy (Boro rice) covered an area of 80 ha . The low area under summer and autumn paddy is mainly due to high cost of cultivation and less remunerative return.
The areas of autumn Paddy has been shifted towards kharif vegetables and area of summer rice has been shifted to Rape & Mustard & Rabi vegetables. Next to Rice, oilseed crop particularly Rape & Mustard have occupied an area of 8873 ha, which is showing a marginal increasing trend over 1990. Area under pulse crops also shows an increasing trend with a present area of 2436 ha (including rabi and kharif). The area under Wheat, Maize, Seasamum, Jute, linseed & other cereals shows an decreasing trends The present area under major crops of the district is depicted in the following table.
Table2.8 : Information on area of important agricultural commodities in ha
Commodity
A
2006-07
P Y A
2007-08
P Y A
2008-09
P Y
Paddy
Wheat
77384 1396.01
98
Oilseed 8623
Rabi Pulses 1671
Kharif pulses 598
1.23
51.57
6.71
2.94
18.04
12.5
5.98
4.02
78468 1413.20 18.01
104
9084
1831
1.33
55.04
7.32
12.8
6.06
4.0
77462 1433.05 18.5
143
9033
1874
1.80
55.37
7.58
4.92 631 3.12 5.07 662 3.51
Potato 2524 151.94 60.2 2510 152.60 60.8 2540 156.21
Maize 245 1.22 5.0 248 1.28 5.2 265 1.37
A= Area in Ha, P=Production ‘000’qt, Y=Productivity –qt/Ha
Source: Dist Agril. Office
12.6
6.13
4.05
5.31
61.5
5.2
Table2.9: Comparative statement of Productivity of Major crops (2008-09)
Sl No
1
2
3
4
5
6
Crops
Padddy
Rape & Mustard
Wheat
Black gram
Green gram
Pea
District
1850
613
1260
441
440
340
7
8
9
10
11
Maize
Sesamum
Other Pulses
Jute
Lentil
520
510
-
-
-
12 Other Cereal
Source: Econ. Survey, Assam 2007-08
-
Productivity in Kg/Ha
State
1612
486
1128
522
525
612
747
564
580
126.7
527
514
National
2001
2692
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Information on area, production & productivity of horticultural crops
Although, type of soils and abundant rainfall are blessing for the commercial cultivation of different subtropical fruit crops such as Banana, Assam lemon, Mandarin orange, Coconut,
Areca nut, Jackfruit, even than the fruit crops are mainly grown in homestead gardens popularly known as Bari, to meet out their domestic demands and surplus if any, is sold in markets. A very small area is under commercial cultivation of fruit crops, that too is gaining momentum after the introduction of centrally sponsored scheme “Technology Mission” in the district, and as a result of that the area under Banana is showing an increasing trends with a present area of 1813 ha.
The present area, production and productivity of major horticultural crops of the district including both kharif and rabi vegetable is presented in the in table2.10
Table 2.10 : Information on area , production and productivity of important Horticultural crops.
(A= Ha; P= t; Y= qt/ha)
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Commodity
Banana
A P Y
1740 34452 198
A P Y
1796 35560 198
A P Y
1813 37710 20.08
Pineapple
Papaya
210
236
2940
3540
Assam lemon 384 1920
Orange
Coconut
Areca nut
Chilies
248
102
2926
226
694
163
8485
100.4
140
150
50
28
16
29
38.6
Turmeric
Ginger
322
237
444.4
2038
138
86
Black Pepper 171 28557 16.7
210
256
401
244
110
2982
3942
2085
683
187
2960 9472
238
335
250
184
952
4690
2000
307
142
150
52
28
17
32
40
140
86
16.7
208
244
419
238
116
350
248
195
2960
3760
2180
680
200
2975 9520
252 1045
5037
2130
330
Sweet potato
Tapioca
50
11
11
4.4
2.2
4.0
52
12
11.4
4.9
2.2
4.1
55
10
12
4.1
2.19
4.09
Kharif Veg 3040 22648 74.5 2854 20662 72.4 3267 24570 75.2
Rabi vegetable 3590 36833 102.6 3824 38507 100.7 4020 43090 107.2
Table2.11: Comparative statement of Productivity of Major crops (2008-09)
Sl No Crops
Dibrugarh
20080
Productivity in Kg/Ha
State
13846
National
1
2
3
Banana
Pineapple
Papaya
14220
15400
15458
15378
4
5
Assam lemon
Areca nut
5200
3200 146*
142.2
154
52
28.6
17
28.9
41.1
142
85.8
16.7
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6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Coconut
Potato
Chilies
Turmeric
Ginger
Orange
Kharif Vegetable
Rabi vegetable
1700
6150
4110
14240
8580
2860
7520
10710
70**
8381
6500
12073
10966
16420 15000
Information on population, production & productivity of livestock
At present, district have 416523 no of cattles among which 18676 upgraded and 411047 indigenous cattles. 35325 Buffaloes, 252 sheep, 179162 goats, 578951 Duck. The piggery,
Goatery and duckery are major enterprises in this sector. However, Poultry is emerging as of the promising one and is being taken up by the youth in groups. The district is deficient in milk production. As the population of the district is basically non-vegetarian in food habit, there is a tremendous demand for meat and egg. Pork is one of the important meats of the district, because it is associated with social rituals of the indeginous people of the district. Partial quantity of all these items is being imported from other districts & states The reasons for low production in this area are lack of awareness among the livestock producers in rural areas on crossbred programmes of local cows and also lack of financial assistance for rearing of meat animals & birds. The present status of livestock is given in Table 2.12
Table 2.12: Information on present status of livestock’s (in “000”nos.)
Animal Breed Borboruah Lahowal Panitola Joypur Tingkhong Khowang Tengakhat Total
Cattle
(Nos)
Improved 6502 1856 2573 3008 653 1875 2209 18676
Indigenous 129553 23544 48855 35070 89505 53282 31238 411047
Total 135855 23400 51428 38078 86158 55157 83447 416523
-
4149
-
828
-
1993
-
549
-
726
-
35325
Buffaloes
(Nos.)
Improved - -
Indigenous 26973 107
107
Sheep
(No.)
Total 26973
Improved -
Indigenous
Total
-
-
-
-
-
4149
-
-
-
828
-
-
-
1993
-
66
66
549
-
172
172
726
-
14
14
35325
252
252
Goats
(No.)
Improved - - - - - - -
Indigenous 44829 7996 13115 25012 25205 32950 30055 179162
Total 44829 7996 13115 25012 25205 32950 30055 179162
Brolier - - - - - - -
Poultry
(No.)
Layer
Ducks
-
305907
Total
Source Dist. Vety Office
-
17299
-
8617
-
5650
-
61658
-
129239
-
50581 578951
721421 82305 146001 133486 292502 306895 229065 1911675
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Information on area, production & productivity of fish
Fish is an important constituent of protenous dietary component, which is needed by each & every person to combat malnutrition. The fish culture rearing occupies an area of 8247.07 ha, out of which 1208.48 ha is under ponds & tanks, 5021.60 ha under river water, 821.50 ha under beel fisheries, and 202.60 ha under swamp and low-lying areas. The present annual fish production is about 8146.95
MT and over all productivity is 30.45
qtls. / Ha / yr. The trend of fish productivity over the period of 1970-71 to 2008-09 has increased from 7.0 qtls to 30.45 qtls.
Fish seed production and its productivity have remained static. The Area, Production and
Productivity of fish in the district is shown in the tables
.
Table 2.13: Area under the commodities of Fishery in ha
Type of fishery
Ponds/tanks
Beels
River
Swamps
Derelicts
Paddy field
Others
Total
Eco hatchery
2006-07
1095
816
5000.04
202.6
272.89
520.00
200
8107.49
2007-08
1152.0
818.0
5020.0
202.6
272.89
520.0
200.00
8184.49
2008-09
1208.48
821.50
5021.60
202.60
272.89
520.00
200.00
8247.07
Source – Dist. Fishery Dev. Office
Table 2.14: Production of fish in tons
Type of fishery
Ponds/tanks
Beels
River
Swamps
2006-07
2409
115.8
5001.0
10.0
Derelicts
Paddy field
Others
68.22
5.20
5.80
Total
Eco hatchery
7615.02
1
Source – Dist. Fishery Dev. Office
Table 2.15: Productivity of fish in q/ha
2007-08
2707.2
22.5
5020.0
10.0
67.56
5.10
5.95
7838.31
1
Type of fishery
Ponds/tanks
Beels
River
Swamps
Paddy field
Others
Total
2006-07
22.0
1.42
1.2
0.5
0.30
2.0
2742.0
Eco hatchery
Source – Dist. Fishery Dev. Office
2007-08
23.0
1.50
1.0
0.5
0.5
2.20
28.7
2008-09
2900.35
135.0
5021.0
10.0
68.1
6.50
6.0
8146.95
1
2008-09
24.0
1.65
1.0
0.5
0.80
2.5
30.45
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Information on production & productivity of Sericulture commodities
Sericulture is an important cottage industry of the district. The prevailing mild climatic conditions viz high rainfall and relative humidity are helping for persuading the sericulture as a way of life to some of farmers particularly in middle and western part of the district. This practice gives much higher return regularly then traditional crops like rice. Finishing products are even more remunerative. About 18,000 Sericulture farm families are engaged in Eri, Muga and Mulberry rearing in the district and are producing around to 8 MT productions. Muga
Reeling cocoons produced in the district are mainly procured by outside purchasers viz.
Sualkuchi. Details of production in respect of Eri cut coccon, Muga raw silk and Pat raw silk in the district is presented in the table 2.16
Table 2.16: Production of important commodities of Sericulture
Year Name of Commodities
Eri Cut cocoon (Kg) Muga Raw Silk (Kg) Pat Raw Silk (Kg)
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
Source – Dist. Seri. Office
27090
24625
25575
Topography and Agro climatic characteristics
7198
6235
6210
237
385
360
The State has delineated into 6 Agro Climatic zones on the basis of Physiography,
Climate, Soil, Crops and cropping patterns. The district comes under the Upper Brahmaputra valley zone and it occupies 20% area of the zone. Based on cropping pattern, soil, Physiography and flood occurrence the district has been divided into 3 different Agro Ecological Situations, with a view to generate location specific Technology to meet the needs of farmers. The situations are, AES-I (Humid Alluvial Flood Prone) AES-II (Humid Alluvial Flood Free) and
AES-III (Sub Humid Alluvial Flood Free). The highest area i.e. 1,87,750 ha viz.56.40% of the total cultivable area of district is covered by AES-I (Humid Alluvial Flood prone), followed by
AES-II (Humid Alluvial Flood Free), which covered 1,00,225 ha viz 30.1% and AES –III (Sub
Humid Alluvial Flood free) is covered 45,061 ha i.e.13.5% of the district. Almost partial area of all 7 blocks falls more or less in all 3 situations. The spread of AES in the district is presented in the table 2.17 and figure 2.9.
Table 2.17: Spread of AES in the district
Total area of Zone
(ha)
Area of district in zone (%)
Name of
AES
Area of AES Name of Blocks ha % fall in the AES
Ha.
Area of block in
%
1690500 20
( AES-I)
Humid
Alluvial
Flood prone
45061 13.5 1. Borboruah
2. Panitola
3. Tengakhat
4. Joypur
19516
5390
2646
3906
45
20
5
8
5. Tingkhong
6. Khowang
7. Lahowal
143
6408
7052
0.3
15
10
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(AES-II)
Humid
Alluvial
Flood
Free
(AES-III)
Sub
Humid
Alluvial
Flood
Free
Sub total
187750 56.4 1.Borboruah
2. Panitola
3. Tengakhat
4. Joypur
5. Tingkhong
6. Khowang
7. Lahowal
Sub total
100225 30.1 1.Borboruah
2. Panitola
3. Tengakhat
4. Joypur
5. Tingkhong
6. Khowang
7. Lahowal
Sub total
Source – ATMA, Dibrugarh
45061
13011
13475
37038
34180
14318
27770
47958
187750
10842
8085
13228
10742
33266
8545
15517
100225
13.5
30
50
70
70
30
65
68
56.4
25
30
25
22
69.7
20
22
30.1
Figure 2.9: Spread of AES on the map of district
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Information on cropping sequences
Cropping intensity is 148% that is less than state average (152%). Rice, Rape and Mustard,
Green gram, Black gram, Vegetables are the important crops & thereby, double and triple cropping is now becoming a feature of the district. The details of cropping pattern of the district
(block wise) presented in the Table 2.18
Table 2.18:Information on existing cropping sequences
Blocks Major crops and cropping system (Area in ha)
First crop Second crop Third crop.
Cropping sequences
Borboruah
Name Area
Sali 8600
Name
-
Area
-
Name
-
Sali 1600 Rabi Vegetable 1600
- - Rabi Vegetable 1200 Kharif
-
- - Pea
Vegetable
150 Kharif
Vegetable
Area
-
-
Sali
Sali – Rabi Vegetable
1200 Kharif Vegetable-Rabi Vegetable
150 Kharif Vegetable – Pea
- - Mustard/
Wheat/Potato
- -
Bao 180
-
-
350 Kharif
Vegetable
- Ahu
- -
350 Kharif Vegetable –
Mustard/Wheat/Potato
280 Ahu
- Bao (Deep water paddy)
Panitola
Tengakhat
Joypur
-
-
- Mustard 350
- Rabi Vegetable 200
-
-
Sali 7200 - -
Sali 450 Rabi Vegetable 450
-
-
-
-
- Rabi Vegetable 300 Kharif
Vegetable
- Mustard/Wheat 540 Kharif
Vegetable
- - Rabi Vegetable 350 Ahu
Sali 300 Mustard 300 -
- - Mustard 300 -
Sali 7500 -
Sali 300 Mustard
-
300
Sali 450 - - Ahu
Sali 1400 Rabi Vegetable 1400
-
-
-
-
- Rabi Vegetable 450 Kharif
Vegetable
-
-
- Mustard
- Mustard/Wheat/
Potato
Sali 10600 -
Sali 450 Mustard
Sali 1250 -
350
700 Kharif
-
450
Vegetable
- Ahu
-
-
-
Sali 800 Rabi Vegetable 800
- - Rabi Vegetable 950 Kharif
-
Vegetable
300 - -
-
- Mustard
- Mustard/
Wheat/Potato
400 Kharif
Vegetable
- Mustard
- Rabi Vegetable
- Sali
- Sali – Rabi Vegetable
300 Kharif Vegetable-Rabi Vegetable
540 Kharif Vegetable-Mustard/Wheat
350 Ahu – Rabi Vegetable
- Sali – Mustard
- Mustard
- Sali
- Sali - Mustard
450 Sali - Ahu
- Sali – Rabi Vegetable
450 Kharif Vegetable-Rabi Vegetable
- Mustard
700 Kharif Vegetable- Mustard/
Potato/Wheat
- Sali
- Sali - Mustard
1250 Sali - Ahu
- Sali – Rabi Vegetable
950 Kharif Vegetable-Rabi Vegetable
- Mustard
400 Kharif Vegetable- Mustard/
Wheat/Potato
Tingkhong Sali 9900 - - - - Sali
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Sali 1050 Rabi Vegetable 1050
Sali 650 - - Ahu
Sali 250 Mustard 250
-
-
- - Rabi Vegetable 550 Kharif
Vegetable
- - Mustard
Khowang Sali 14800 -
250
-
Sali 400 Rabi Vegetable 400
Sali 250
Sali 400
-
-
-
-
-
- Ahu
- Kharif
Vegetable
Lahowal
- - Mustard
Bao 260 -
-
300
-
- Rabi Vegetable 450
-
-
-
Sali 350 Rabi Vegetable 350
Sali 300 - - Ahu
Sali 200 -
Sali
Sali
8500 -
400 Mustard
-
- Kharif
Vegetable
-
400
-
-
- - Rabi Vegetable 450 Kharif
Vegetable
- Mustard 300 - -
Source – ATMA, Dibrugarh
Information on rain fed and irrigated area
- Sali – Rabi Vegetable
650 Sali - Ahu
- Sali – Mustard
550 Kharif Vegetable-Rabi Vegetable
- Mustard
- Sali
- Sali – Rabi Vegetable
250 Sali - Ahu
400 Sali – Kharif Vegetable
- Mustard
- Bao
- Rabi Vegetable
- Sali – Rabi Vegetable
300 Sali - Ahu
200 Sali – Kharif Vegetable
- Sali
- Sali - Mustard
450 Kharif Vegetable-Rabi Vegetable
- Mustard
Out of the total cultivable area of the district, 12,420 ha (9.74%) is actually irrigated against the estimated potentiality of 13,956 (10.95%) and remaining 1,15,088 ha (90.26%) area is rain fed. Out of the actual irrigated area, 5.43% area is irrigated through Medium and Minor schemes of Irrigation department and 86.4% through STW, 4.5% through ponds &Tanks whereas 3.6% through others sources. Mostly Rabi vegetables & Rabi crops are grown in the area, which is irrigated by STW where as LIS irrigated areas fall in typical paddy lands where only Sali crops is practiced by harnessing the benefit insitu moisture at critical stages & incase of drought like situation. The minor, medium and major irrigational projects are those, which are having the command area less than 200 ha, in between 200-10000ha and above 10,000 ha respectively. The data on rain fed and irrigated area of the district is shown in Table 2.19
Table 2.19: Information on irrigated & rain fed area of the district
Blocks Rain-fed
Area (ha)
% Source wise irrigated area (P=projected & A= actual irrigated in ha.)
P
Major
A %
Borboruah 15389 88.88 - -
Panitola 9606 94.73 - -
-
-
P
-
-
Medium
A
-
-
%
-
-
P
705
-
Minor
A
170
-
%
24.1
-
Tengakhat 23926 90.58 - -
Joypur 17381 90.99 - -
Tingkhong 13296 86.75 - -
Khowang 14075 83.81 - -
Lahowal 21220 95.47 - -
Total 114893 90.24 - -
-
-
-
-
-
-
- - -
- 1925 150
-
-
- -
1925 150
-
-
-
8
-
8
726 85 11.7
60 30 50
110 60 54.5
549 130 23.7
234 50 21.4
2384 525 22.02
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Contd……
Blocks
P
STW
A % P
Tank
A % P
Pond
A % P
Others
A %
Borboruah 1664 1664 100 48 36 75 22 18 81.8 40 36 90
Panitola 474 474 100 56 28 50 18 12 66.7 20 20 100
Tengakhat 2124 2124 100 108 84 70.7 36 29 80.5 180 165 91.7
Joypur 1578 1578 100 78 60 76.9 28 22 78.6 46 30 65.2
Tingkhong 1820 1820 100 82 67 81.7 42 35 83.3 62 48 77.4
Khowang 2208 2208 100 114 81 71 30 24 80 164 125 76.2
Lahowal 864 864 100 68 47 59.1 22 18 81.8 35 28 80
Total 10732 10732 100 554 403 72.7 198 158 79.8 547 452 82.6
Source: ATMA, Dibrugarh
Table 2.20: Information on Block wise existing agro- processing units of the district
Blocks Location of the processing unit.
Name Commodities processed
Type of processing
Borboruah Borboruah
Khonikor
Borboruah
Panitola
R.Goenka Paddy
- Paddy
Ambika Rice Mill Paddy
2No Kamargaon P Gogoi
Chabua B SHAH
Chabua
Chabua
Chabua
MES Tinali
R Dhanuka
D Shah
S Narayan
S Singhania
Paddy
Paddy/Wheat Rice/Flour
Wheat
Paddy
Paddy
Paddy
Rice
Rice
Rice
Rice
Flour
Rice
Rice
Tengakhat
Tingkhong
Tengakhat
Tengakhat
Tengakhat
Tengakhat
Tengakhat
Tengakhat
Rajgarh
GB Agarwalla
R Agarwalla
M Agarwalla
B Agarwalla
Paddy
Paddy
Paddy
Paddy
Rice
Chira, Parboil rice
Rice, Chira,-do-
Chira, -do-
Rice, Chira
Moil
Raw silk
Spice grinding
Kenduguri
Rajgarh
Ophelia
P Agarwalla
27 Nos
M/S Ramdhon
Product
K Joysowal
Mustard
Eri
Spices
Paddy
R Joysowal Paddy
Eri CSRTI 3Nos Eri
Rice
Rice
Raw silk
Joypur Naharkatia
Naharkatia
Naharkatia
Kakojan
Khowang Haladhibari
Lingerie
Khowang ghat
Dasarath Rice mill Paddy
GP Agarwalla
J Saha
Paddy/Mustard
Eri –CSRTI-5Nos Eri
M/S Krishna
&others
P Gogoi
M/S Poddar
Paddy/Mustard Rice/Oil
Paddy
Paddy
Mustard
Rice
Rice/Oil
Raw silk
Rice
Rice
M Oil
Quantity processed in tons
120
75
58
85
90
45
60
50
60
68
42
27
38
25
0.018
4
45
35
0.020
36
62
45
0.026
48
20
20
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Lahowal
Nahazar Naharani Muga Reeling unit Muga Reeling Traditional
Katahguri - do - Muga Reeling Improved
Lahowal
Lahowal
Lahowal
S Ahmed
B Agarwalla
P Paik
Paddy/Wheat Rice/Flour
Paddy/Wheat Rice/Flour
Paddy/Wheat Rice/Wheat
Chirring hola
Ghoramora
Phutaholla
ChiringHola
Lahowal
ChiringHola
H Baruah
S Konwar
B Das
P Saikia
Paddy
Paddy
Paddy
Paddy
Town Milk
Supply
Milk
Eri CSRTI 3Nos Eri
Rice
Rice
Rice
Rice
Milk Product
Raw silk
Source – ATMA, Dibrugarh
0.0035
0.0045
65
22
46
21
18
24
16
200
0.020
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SWOT Analysis and Vision
Introduction
SWOT analysis, either formal or informal, should be the central tool for developing the document across different sectors. Strengths have been used as a basis for development while absence of certain strengths has been viewed as weaknesses. The external environment may provide opportunities for growth or present a threat to the development process.
SWOT analysis of key existing farming system viz. Agri – Horti – Ani Hus - Fishery and different commodities was carried out on the basis of primary and secondary information collected from the villages, consultation with farmers, need assessment and baseline survey. The
Scientist of KVK and officers of line departments did the SWOT analysis as per guidelines provided. The sector wise SWOT analysis is presented as follows a) SWOT analysis of Agriculture sector
1.
Suitable climatic conditions for kharif crops specially rice.
2.
Adequate availability of agricultural labours
3.
Prevalence of the system traditionally in nature
4.
Rich agro-biodiversity
5.
Existence of Field Management Committees (FMCs /PPS)
6.
Establishment of a KVK under AAU, Jorhat in recent days
1.
Uneven distribution of rainfall and moistures stress at some critical stages of crop growth.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Recurrent flood and erosion problem.
Scattered land holding
Poor adoption of technology
Limitation in availability of quality inputs
6.
7.
8.
9.
High incidence of pests and diseases because of high relative humidity
Low technical skill of the farmers
Market inaccessibility due to poor road and communication facilities
Approximately 90% of area is under rain fed condition.
10.
Low and imbalanced use of fertilizes and chemicals
1.
2.
Existence of a good market in adjacent districts and even in nearby hill states.
Export oriented organic agriculture as consumption of agrochemical is very low in the
3.
district.
The upcoming rail-cum-road bridge and Gas cracker project will create a massive infrastructural boon in the district.
1. Area conversion to Tea crop because of existing infrastructure /marketing facilities.
2. Migration of agricultural labour to industrial sectors
3. Occurrence of floods with silt deposition ,Occasional occurrence of Draught, occurrence of epidemic diseases
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b) SWOT analysis of Horticulture sector
1. Prevalence of a strong traditional cropping systems ( bari ) for household nutritional security
2. A good elite local market is existed based on tea and petroleum industries for high value crops
3. High return over investment
4. Suitable climatic and soil condition
1.
2.
4.
5.
Non existence of cold storage facilities
Poor economic condition of farmers to go for cultivation practices with mechanization and
modern irrigation
3.
High infestation of pest and diseases
Gap in adoption in modern technology
Poor availability of quality planting material
Opportunity
1. High demand in and around the district.
2. Existence of NHB, NERAMEC, SIRD, NIRD etc with various supportive scheme.
3. Export oriented organic cultivation of high value crops as there is a good domestic as well as external markets
Threats
1. Glutting during peak season leading to price fall
2. Perishable produce
3. Area conversion to Tea crop because of existing infrastructure /marketing facilities. c) SWOT analysis of Dairy development sector
Strength
1.
Suitable climate and land for fodder cultivation
2.
Availability of adequate pastureland.
3.
Easy availability of work man power
4.
Existence of dairy SHGs
5.
High woman participation
6.
Good linkage with the markets from the production centres
7.
High demand of milk
8.
Remunerative non land based enterprise for landless farmers
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c) SWOT analysis of Dairy development sector – contd.
Weakness
1.
Fodder cultivation is not popular
2.
Limited facility of milk processing/storages
3.
Lack of organized regulated markets
4.
Lack of awareness among the farmers
5.
Due to damp climate susceptibility to different diseases is more
6.
Poor productive capability due to local breeds
7.
High calf mortality rate
8.
Slow genetical up gradation of Milch cows
9.
Unorganized farming
10.
Poor economic condition of the farmers
11.
Very high cost of feeding concentrates
12.
Slow Genetic up gradation rate
Opportunity
1.
High demand in and around the district for both raw & processed milk
2.
Artificial Insemination for Genetic up gradation can be taken up
3.
Self employment generation
Threats.
1.
Menace of stray breeding bull for venereal disease/breeding up liftment
2.
Menace of disease like mastitis, milk fever and, infertility
3. Feed unavailability during flood period d) SWOT analysis of Animal husbandry sector
Strength
1.
Suitable climate for pig, duck and goat rearing,
2.
Easily availability of work man power
3.
Woman participation.
4.
Existence of NGO, SHG and private society.
5.
Good demand for local consumption.
6.
Popularization of improved and crossbreed pig
7.
Remunerative non land based enterprise for landless farmers
8.
Adoption of improved and crossbreed broiler chicks rearing
Weakness
1.
Poor financial capability of farmers
2.
Non-adoption of preventive measures (vaccination etc.)
3.
Non adoption of scientific rearing technology
4.
Poor risk bearing capacity
5.
Poor road communication in rural areas.
Opportunity
1.
Prominent market in and around the district
2.
Pig meat processing unit ( Pvt) existed at Sivsagar
3.
High demand of both the produces (Egg& meat)
Threats.
1.
Menace of endemic and epidemic diseases
2.
Social taboo in Pig rearing
3. Feed unavailability during flood period
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e) SWOT analysis of Fisheries sector
Strength
1.
Congenial temperature
2.
Adequate rainfall
3.
High water retaining capacity of the soil
4.
Homogenous social structure.
5.
Availability of workforce
6.
Availability of fish breeding farms in private and public sector.
7.
Availability of fishery inputs trader
8.
High demand for internal consumption
Weakness
1.
Flood occurrence
2.
Dominance of aquatic macrophytes
3.
Lack of storage and preservation facility
4.
Subsidiary nature of fish farming
5.
Management problem in pisciculture
6.
Imbalanced use of organic and chemical fertilizers
7.
Partial adoption of technology in composite& integrated fishing
8.
Poor economic condition of the farmers
9.
Non involvement of Co op. society for Fingerling stoking
Opportunity
1.
Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Guwahati
2.
Marine product export & development authority, Guwahati
3.
Prominent market in and around the district
4.
Existence of FISHFED at Guwahati
5.
Existence of NCDC at Guwahati
Threats.
1.
Poaching in case of pisciculture
2.
Occurrence of floods
3.
Social taboo in fish farming
4.
Menace of epidemic diseases
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Agriculture is the mainstay of the district’s economy and a way of life of majority of people. Cultivators and agricultural labourers constitute a significant numbers of total work forces in the district that are directly dependent on agricultural development of the district.
Nearly 66% of household is dependent on agriculture and other allied sectors Pace of development of this sector generally impacts the pace of development of other sectors.
Accelerated agricultural growth of agri-business can create employment in rural areas, secure a food standard of living for the agricultural population and discourage migration to urban areas.
The district is also important due to presence of various industries specially tea, oil and natural gas and coal, petroleum. On one hand it affects agricultural development by diverting agricultural labourers to other industries and releasing industrial waste materials to agricultural area, and on the other hand it provides scope for production of high value crops, value addition and agro-processing.
The total area of the district is 4.3% of state area and 4.7 % of state’s cultivated area.
Cropping intensity of the district is 148% against the state’s cropping intensity of 152%.Thus agricultural development holds the key for all-out development of the district. The net sown area of the district is about 38.22% of the geographical area. Paddy is cultivated in about 77462ha.
Erratic rainfall, decreased soil fertility, flood, erosion and siltation, uneven and inadequate irrigation development , weather aberrations , poor socio-economic condition of the farmers, and adverse impact of industries and mining on agriculture are some of the factors leading to unsustainable agricultural growth in the district.
This has been further accentuated by the problems of animal menace, environmental pollution, transfer of agricultural land for nonagricultural purpose, inadequate market infrastructure, low input use and poor extension and research services in the district with low capital investment in agriculture and allied sector. Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization there is labour shortage in peak agricultural season resulting in forced migration of agricultural labour from neighboring districts to the district.
Unabated soil erosion, contamination of water bodies and cultivated soil due to the impact of industries and mining and climatic change are posing serious threat to sustainable agriculture in the district .There has been wide gap between the achieved productivity and achievable productivity due to reasons like moisture stress at critical stages of crop (s) , soil acidity, iron toxicity, low Seed Replacement Rate (SRR), poor infrastructure, poor post-harvest management and low adoption of both material and crop production technologies.
Mission
To attain and sustain the 4% growth rate per annum the following strategies are formulated –
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Increase the production and productivity of agriculture and allied sectors through location specific, sustainable technological intervention.
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Increase the area under cultivation for high value low volume cops.
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Double the return in terms of Rupees to the farmers and farm laborer in next 10 years.
Encouraging sustainable land use system.
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Management of natural resources and conservation of agro-biodiversity for sustainable agricultural production.
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Emphasis on post harvest handling and value addition
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Ensuring household nutritional and food security.
Agri-vision 2020 of the district envisages improving the quality of life of the rural population, including poor and women, by widening the opportunities and increasing their income through the route of agricultural development. Thrust will be given on demand driven sustainable agriculture with special emphasis on resource poor farmers. Equitable profitability
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will be given due importance. IFS approach, keeping in view the household food and nutritional security will be emphasized.
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Agriculture would continue to be a primary route of employment in rural areas and a source of livelihood of rural population as nearly two-third of population directly or indirectly depends on agriculture for their livelihoods and sustenance.
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The district has a considerable number of population below poverty line. Agricultural growth is essential for reduction of poverty in rural sector which requires priority to growth of agriculture.
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The district vision seeks a competitive agriculture for sustainable increase in productivity and higher value addition to agriculture produce. The vision seeks a demand driven agriculture and agro-industrial growth in the new globalized agriculture environment.
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The vision envisages promotion of agricultural infrastructure, marketing support and
R&D back up as agriculture cannot develop in isolation .
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The district agri-vision aims at sustainable agricultural growth, based on technology which will be environmental friendly, technically feasible, economically viable and socially acceptable. To achieve this kind of growth, focused agricultural research ( both applied as well as adaptive) is required through AAU, RARS and KVK. Growth needs to be coupled with equity and in a manner that enhances entitlement and need of resource poor farmers, women and those belonging to weaker and disadvantaged section of the community.
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The vision statement envisages technology transfer to the farmers to meet their information gap to adopt best available technologies to enhance the crop productivity without endangering the natural resource base.
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Availability of complete product range of inputs will be made to the farmers, such as
HY/Hyb seeds, biofertilisers, biopesticides and other inputs. The community will be educated on balanced use of biomass, organic and inorganic agro-chemicals through integrated nutrient and pest management programmes, increased SRR, and farm mechanization.
The Vision – its description
(i) Productivity enhancement:
It has been observed that the yield of almost all the major crops and livestock in the district is lower than the state and national average. The gross cropped area in the district
188692 is the 56.65% of the total geographical area of the district with only 148% of cropping intensity. So there is very limited scope for the horizontal expansion i.e. area expansion under crop. Furthermore, area conversion of agricultural land to non- agricultural uses and increasing emphasis on tea cultivation on small scale also deteoriating the situation. The only probable solution is vertical expansion i.e. yield increase to meet the continuing high demand. In order to achieve this, the existing gap in transfer of technology has to be bridged through strengthening adaptive research, technology assessment, refinement and transfer.
The entire existing extension machineries has to be revamped to facilitate top-up as well a bottom-down flow of information from farmers to policy maker.
(ii)High value low volume crop
In order to check the conversion of agricultural land to tea, high value low volume crops have to be introduced. As the environment (Soil, climate, socio-economic, infrastructural etc) of the district is congenial for tea, it is not surprising that the district has highest no. 16972 of
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small tea gardens in the entire state with a total area 19456 ha. Suitable high value low volume crops for the district not only ensure high return at par with tea but also as an important component of sustainable land use and agricultural production system iii) Availability of quality inputs
Availability of good quality seeds continues to be a problem for the farmers. Lack of decentralized seed production and distribution network in public as well as private sector could be one of the major contributing factors towards this problem. As a result, farmer prefers to rely on farm saved seeds. Seed replacement rate in the entire district is much below the recommended level because the certified seeds of choice are not made available to the farmers and also due to the fact that farmers do not trust the quality or truthfulness of quality seeds supplied to them. The major thrust will be given on decentralized seed production through “seed village programme” and streamlining the distribution of certified seeds to the farmers. Moreover quality planting materials in case of horticultural crops is also a problem for the farmers of the district. Thrust will be given on strengthening the supply chain of seed and planting materials.
(iii) Integrated nutrient management
Deteriorating soil health is a major constraint limiting productivity in agriculture.
Imbalance use of fertilizers reduces soil productivity over time. Most of the farmers do not have information on soil health of their farms and the extent of macro and micronutrient deficiencies, which varies across the district. The district will have to take immediate step to open soil testing laboratory and measures will be necessary for soil testing at Block level. Attention will be given to balanced use of nutrients. To improve efficiency of fertilizer use location-specific research on efficient fertilizer practices (such as balanced use of nutrients, correct timing and placement of fertilizers, and, wherever necessary, use of micronutrient and soil amendments), improvement in soil testing services, development of improved fertilizer supply and distribution systems. The
Integrated Plant Nutrient System (IPNS) will be demonstrated to the farmers in intensive cropping system for maintenance of soil health and sustainable crop production.
(iv) Integrated pest management
Use of bio control agents in controlling crop pests have emerged as an important ecosafe alternative for the management of pests and diseases in agriculture. There is need for the promotion of an eco-friendly approach for pest management encompassing cultural, mechanical, biological and need-based use of chemical pesticides with preference to the use of biopesticides, bio-control agents. v) Natural resource management:
Present day agriculture is at a cross road . On one way it has to increase production to meet the demand of increasing population and on other way, it has to conserved the natural resources for future need. Judicious use of natural resources for production optimization is a challenge to meet. Any efficient agriculture plan hass to accommodate these two vital yet opposite considerations. More emphasis will be given on location specific, demand driven, participatory research, with bottom-up approach involving all the stakeholders. vi) Sustainable agriculture and land use system:
Accelerated agricultural growth has to be substantially supported by sustainability, in terms of production and resource uses. Higher agricultural growth must accompany by food and
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nutritional security. Emphasis on the development of traditional homestead farming system
( Bari ) in Assam can envisage household and nutritional food security for the rural communities. Various suitable strategies have to be formulated for development of this system to ensure high return. vii) Organic agriculture:
There is an ample opportunity for organic agriculture in the district. The agriculture in the entire region is organic by default, due to low use of agro chemicals in field and horticultural crops. A little effort can open up new vistas in the export oriented agricultural scenario of the district. The existing communication and transport facilities along with upcoming rail bridge at
Bogibeel, and various road development projects, ‘Look East’ policy of Centre may be instrumental In a massive growth in organic agriculture through proper Public-Private
Partnership (PPP). viii) Public-Private Partnership (PPP):
Agricultural growth is the engine of economic growth as more than 80% of the entire population is rural and 66% of the household is depended on agriculture. There is need for higher investment in public and private sector for promotion of infrastructures required for agricultural development. A proper and efficient PPP not only ensure proper infrastructure facilities to agriculture but also ensure a higher employment opportunity, which is equally important for sustaining the productivity and profitability. The availability of funds under
NREGS and other ongoing schemes relating to Bharat Nirman could be utilised for this.
(x) Diversification of Agriculture
Agricultural diversification has to be a major element in the strategy for accelerating agricultural growth .Ideally, there should be a shift of land from less remunerative to high remunerative crops (in the process increasing both farm income and employment) combined with an increase in productivity in cereals to ensure that the per capita availability of cereals does not decline. Diversification also means a shift from crop agriculture to animal husbandry/dairy and fisheries. The shift from cereals to horticulture crops requires a supportive policy framework, notably, a much greater focus on marketing arrangements, including encouragement to private sector involvement in marketing, and encouragement of downstream food processing and research linked to market requirements for diversifying into horticulture.
Besides developing technologies for promoting intensification, there will be greater attention to the development of technologies that will facilitate agricultural diversification particularly towards intensive production of fruits, vegetables, flowers and other high value crops that are expected to increase income growth and generate effective demand for food. Diversification towards these high value and labour intensive commodities can provide adequate income and employment to the farmers dependent on small size of farms. Agricultural diversification may pose special challenges in marketing because the high-value produce of diversified agriculture is much more perishable than the food grains. viii) Drudgery reduction:
The present state of farm mechanization not only in the district but also in the entire region (NE) is very pathetic. Lack of awareness, non availability , low investment, higher no. of small and marginal farmers etc various factors are responsible for the problem. The near non-use of modern farm machineries is a serious concern to be addressed if a higher agricultural growth
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is the goal. Suitable strategies have to be formulated to incorporate modern farm machineries at various stages of crucial farm operation keeping in view the present socio economic condition of resource poor farmer.
(viii) Focus on rain-fed farming system
Resource-poor farmers in the rain fed ecosystems practice less-intensive agriculture, and since their incomes depend on local agriculture, they benefit little from increased food production in irrigated areas. To help them, efforts will be made to disseminate available rainfed agricultural technologies for enhancing crop production. The total irrigated area of the district is nearly 10% of the total cultivated area. Differential strategies have to be adopted for rain fed and irrigated area. Modification of cropping sequence with suitable inclusion of crop for flood prone areas will be given emphasis. Watershed development for raising yields of rain-fed crops will be the major plank for development of rain fed areas. Farming system research to develop location specific technologies must be intensified in the rain fed areas. Water is also critical for rain fed land which accounts for more than 90% of cultivable area. Though the district enjoys abundant of rainfall, uneven distribution of rainfall over time (upto some extent space) hinders the production in rainfed areas. Watershed management, rainwater harvesting and ground water recharge can help augment water availability in rain fed areas. Micro-irrigation is also important to improve water use efficiency in areas where water availability is limited.
(xi) Post-harvest management, value addition and cost-effectiveness
Post-harvest losses generally range from 5 to 10 per cent for non-perishable and about
30 per cent for perishable crops. Emphasis will be given to develop post-harvest handling, agroprocessing and value-addition technologies not only to prevent the high losses, but also to improve quality through proper storage, packaging, handling and transport. Cost-effectiveness in production and post-harvest handling through the application of latest technologies will be a necessity. The agro-processing facilities would preferably be located close to the points of production in rural areas, which will greatly promote off-farm employment. Such centres of processing and value addition will encourage production by masses against mass production in factories located in urban areas. Agricultural cooperatives and Gram Panchayats can play a leading role in this effort.
(xiii) Empowering the small farmers
The off-farm and non-farm employment opportunities can play an important role for empowering small farmers. Greater emphasis needs to be placed on non-farm employment and appropriate budgetary allocations and rural credit through banking systems for promotion of appropriate rural enterprises. Specific human resource and skill development programmes to train them will make them better decision-makers and highly productive. Knowledge and skill development of rural people both in agriculture and non-agriculture sectors is essential for achieving economic and social goals. A careful balance will therefore needed to be maintained between the agricultural and non-agricultural employment and farm and non-farm economy, as the two sectors are closely interrelated. For poor farm-households whose major endowment is its labour force, economic growth with equity will give increased entitlement by offering favourable markets for its products and more employment opportunities.
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(xiv) Access to credit and Risk Management
Access to financial resources enables the poor to exploit investment opportunities, reduces their vulnerability to shocks and promotes economic growth. But lack of credit at reasonable rates is a persistent problem. The failure of the organised credit system in extending credit has led to excessive dependence on informal sources like rural money lenders usually at exorbitant interest rates. Farmers are protected against risks by appropriate insurance cover. The minimum support price for important crops can provide a sort of relief to the farmers. The district administration is required to implement the procurement under MSP to achieve the envisaged objectives.
(xv) Extension Reform
One of the key reasons for the breakdown of the extension system is the financial stringency experienced by the states as well as the Centre. As a result, farmers are becoming increasingly dependent on the private sector for extension services. While this can be an effective alternative if private services are supplied efficiently and competitively, in the absence of assured public provision of such services at a certain standard, the resource poor and gullible farmers can become victims of exploitation by unscrupulous traders and money-lenders interested in selling spurious inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and pesticides or simply interested in pushing excessive dependence on inputs, whether spurious or not. To mitigate the current problem, extension reform, participatory extension and alternate methods of extension provide the answer. Under the policy framework of extension reform of Dibrugarh district has already adopted the ATMA system of agricultural extension.
(xvi) Animal husbandry
The livestock sector accounts for a considerable value of the value of the output of
Agriculture & Allied Sector and provide full time or part time employment to a significant numbers of working population. The district as a whole is deficient in milk, meat and egg production and has to be dependent on others district of the state as well outside states. The broad vision for livestock promotion in the district would be:
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Breed upgradation through AI and natural crossing through selected breeds
Promotion of appropriate crossbreeds while conserving indigenous breeds of livestock
Use of paravets for first aid treatment and AI measures
Formation of SHGs for production and marketing of milk, egg and poultry
Farming system approach to include livestock as an important component
Self employment through livestock promotion.
(xvii) Fishery
Fisheries not only provide an important alternative source of protein rich food, but also contribute to socio-economic development by generating employment as well as stimulating subsidiary industries. Though there is very heavy demand of fish in the district throughout the year, the district is deficient in fish production. The Fisheries sector is yet to harness the full potential. Numerous natural stream and large numbers of water bodies with abundant of rainfall create a tremendous potentiality as far as fisheries sector is concern. The broad vision for fishery development in the district would be:
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To promote sustainable development of inland and culture so as to enhance the contribution of the fisheries sector to food and livelihood security of the people of the district and state.
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To promote a balanced approach to fisheries management based on sound ecological, economic and precautionary principles to ensure that fish populations remain viable, productive and accessible to future generations.
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To create a human resource base for fisheries development and management, research, extension and awareness, through capacity building.
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The methodology of C-DAP has focused on understanding the latent potential of the district for development and identifying initiatives required. These potentials are treated as goals to be achieved with the available and additional resources . In order to prepare the plan, attempt has been made to prepare a statistical profile of the district which led to the understanding of the development perspective of the district. Considering these the district vision was developed and the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis was carried out.
District Agriculture Planning Unit (DAPU) at the district level was constituted with members as recommended by the Planning Commission. The Agricultural Technology Management Agency
(ATMA) at the district level was given adequate attention in the process. The Technical Support
Institution (TSI) appointed by the State Government provided necessary technical inputs and planning process required for the preparation of C-DAP.
4.1
Planning Process
The District planning process went through the following stages: i.
Panchayat Agricultural Planning Unit (PAPU) for 93 Gaon Panchayats were formed with the following members –
1. President of Gaon Panchayat
2. Vety. Field Asstt.
3. 3-4 Representatives of SHGs/FIGs /CIGs
4. 1-2 Landless Labourers
5. 2-3 Expert in planning, available locally
6. Village Dairy supervisor/Secy of Dairy Cooperatives
7. VLEW Agriculture
- Chairperson
- Member
- Member
- Member
- Member
- Member
-Member Secretary ii.
Block Agricultural Planning Unit (BAPU) for seven nos of Blocks of the district were formed with the following members –
1. President of Anchalik Panchayat - Chairperson
2. Block Dev. Officer - Convener
3. An Elected Representative of Anchalik Panchayat Member - Member
4. District Planning Officer
5. Block Level Officer of Allied Departments
6. An Expert in Planning
7. Representative of Bank
- Member
- Member
- Member
- Member
8. 1 Reputed NGO at Block level - Member
9. 3-4 Representatives of SHGs/FIGs /CIGs - Member
10. Block Agril. Dev. Officer - Member Secy. iii. The District Agricultural Planning Unit (DAPU), was formed with the following members
1.
President of Zila Panchayat
2.
Deputy Commissioner
3.
An electd representative nominated by Zila Parishad
-Chairperson
-Vice Chairperson
-Member
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4.
An expert in planning
5.
District planning officer
6.
District Animal Husbandry officer
7.
District level officers of allied sectors
8.
Representative of SHG fed./FIGS/CIG(2-3)
9.
SAU/KVK (2-3)
10.
Reputed NGOs (1) -Member
11.
DDM of NABARD
12.
Lead district manager
-Member
-Member
-Member
-Member
-Member
-Member
13.
District Information officer (DIO), NEC
14.
District Agril. Officer
-Member
-Member
-Member
-Member secretary
Following this, a training-cum-orientation programme was organized to the VLEW/
Member secretaries of the PAPU at District HQ and Naharkatia. The basic objective of the training was to build up a common understanding on the planning process, to have a clear understanding on the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders and to ensure the process to be participatory During the orientation it was made clear that though the guidelines of
Planning Commission said that the TSI would only play the role of a facilitator, both the TSI and the Departments had to support each other in ensuring the preparation of the district plan with the TSI’s responsibility of consolidating the sectoral plans.
(i) Formulation of Vision Document: In this stage the aspirations and developmental needs of the district were broadly spelt out keeping a specific time frame for achievement. This
Vision prepared at the district level in consultation with all stakeholders was taken as a guide in preparation of the plan. The contents of the vision document have been illustrated in the following diagram.
Figure 4.1: Agri-vision contents
(ii) Information Needs and Analysis: The basic statistics of the district were used to work out the indices which would describe the present status of the district as compared to the
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state and the country. Based on SWOT analysis, the needs and core sectors were identified to focus on, for further development.
(iii) Preparation of Village/Panchayat Plans: The basic information was collected from all the Gram Panchayats by the survey team under the leadership of the VLEWs so as to assess their need, potential, resource availability and problems. The priorities were identified by the study team in consultation with the local representatives and villagers.
The primary data includes a)
I)
II)
Socioeconomic and demographic information-
Social and economic profile of household
Poverty status of household
III) Literacy rate by social group b) i) ii)
Agriculture
Land use particulars.
Sources of irrigation iii) Performance of tanks used for irrigation iv) Condition of irrigation well v) Area under food and horticultural crops3 vi) Average yield of major crops vii) Area suffering from low yield viii) Public and private land under problems ix) Use of fertilizers an manures x) Problems of availability of inputs, seeds xi) Problems in procuring pesticides xii) Source of draft power for cultivation xiii) Any other problem in agriculture sectors and suggestion c) Livestock i) Livestock population ii) Carcass yield of meat animal iii) Milk yield by types of animal iv) Quantity of milk marketed v) No of household depending on livestock vi) Availability of fodder vii) Sources of water for animal viii) Constrains for increasing milk production d) Poultry e) No of household depending on fishing f) Potential livestock activities to help the poor and the support services. g) Facilities available in the GP h) Education i) Housing, drinking water, sanitation, road network and electrification. j) Self Help Group k) Rural industries l) Implementation of NREGS m) Other poverty alleviation programme n) Most important need of the village o) Schemes identified for development of the GP
After collection of the primary data, the priorities are considered for inclusion in the CDAP at
GP level and the same is approved by concern PAPU.
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iii) Formulation of Anchalik Panchayat Plan: The secondary data collected at block/ anchalik panchayat level were considered for formulation of anchalik Panchayat plan. The GP level plan were compiled at the Anchalik panchayat level with inclusion of some special schemes at AP level and these plans were approved by BAPU.
(iv) Formulation of a District Plan: Sectoral planning with Block-specific interventions was done by the line departments considering the need, potential, man power, availability of technology & resources and various policies and Programmes adopted. The TSI guided this process, provided necessary format as well as inputs, and did the final consolidation and editing work.
(v) Approval by DPC/ Zilla Parishad:
The DAPU meeting held on 14.09.09 at Conference Hall od Dibrugarh Zilla Parishad approved the C-DAP Dibrugarh prepared under RKVY. The Meeting have considered proposals submitted as additional, by AH & Veterinary, Sericulture and Agril. Research sectors. The Total Project cost of the approved C-DAP is Rs. 14123.5 Lakh with Govt share of Rs. 12026.7 Lakh and beneficiary share of Rs. 2096.8 Lakh. (Signatures of DAPU Members in the meeting held on 14.09.09 at
Conference Hall of Zilla Parishad , Dibrugarh is presented in Annexure I)
4.2
Structure of C-DAP
As per the suggestion made by AAU, the designated TSI for the state, the CDAP is rearranged in nine chapters. Accordingly the plan spreads over 9 chapters including introduction in Chapter I. Chapter II describes the general profile of the district while Chapter III contains the findings of SWOT analysis and Vision. Chapter IV discussed the methodology adopted for the planning. Data analysis, interpretation and gap analysis is described in the chapter V.
Constraint and solution interventions, prioritization of synergy exercise (solution) in chpter VI, existing projects in the chapter VIII, Programmes/ projct formulation with budget in chape VIII and monitoring and evaluation mechanism in chapter XI.
4.3
Limitations
Due to paucity of time, limitations of resources, delayed submission of GP profiles by
ADOs and of GP-level baseline survey reports; and also due to the coincidence of planning exercise with peak agricultural operations in the district, and the question of feasibility of the demand/requirement reflected in the survey formats received, it was not possible to revise and refine the Plan prepared at Gram Panchayat level. The problems increased further as some of the basic data required as per C-DAP manual were not available from some of the concerned departments. Almost all the line departments were new to the whole process, and found it difficult to follow the suggestions/requirements of the TSI chiefly because of their stereotyped way of working, lack of resources, and limitations of time. A lot of data was thus collected from primary and secondary sources like Statistical Abstracts, Statistical Handbook of Assam, credit plan of LBO, DADS of ATMA, and Assam Agricultural Statistics, other publications and websites.
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5.1 Introduction:
As agriculture is the main occupation of the district, and a majority of the total population is dependent on agriculture, a higher economic growth is not possible without a vibrant and steady agriculture growth. A higher growth in other sectors, however desirable, can also not be sustained without significant growth in agriculture nor can it change the complexion of the economy, from backwardness to prosperity or compensate for lower growth in agriculture. The total contribution of the district in the total production of the state in respect of major crops is given below in table 4.1
Table No 5.1: % Contribution of the district to the state food basket
Name of the crop Total production Total
% contribution to state’s in Assam
(MT) production in
Dibrugarh production district (MT)
Paddy
Wheat
Pulse
Oil seed
Kharif Vegetable
Rabi Vegetable
Banana
Pine apple
Papaya
Assam Lemon
2916000
67200
11700
140300
598860
152501.8
630
2193.6
5813.2
24570
43046.8
3771
2960
3760
2180
4.89%
0.16%
12.46%
4.15%
6.29%
1.54%
3.58%
Arecanut
Potato
Chilli
Turmeric
191890
104960
64950 9520
15620
1045
5037
14.65%
Ginger
Blackpepper
2130
330
5.2 Land Use
The net sown area of the district is about 38% of the geographical area whereas the area under forest cover is 8.54% which indicates the importance of both agriculture and forestry in the district. The gross cropped area of the district is 188692 ha with a cropping intensity of
148%. The cultivable waste land and current fallow jointly account for 4.64% (15461 ha) of total geographical area.
5.3 Soil health:
While conversion of agricultural land to non agricultural use is unavoidable, policies are to be formulated to ensure that the conversion does not put undue pressure on agricultural or lead to inefficient land use eg. loss of essential water bodies and speculative land purchase that reduces cultivation without any productive use for several years. It has been observed that soil health has been deteriorated sharply during the last few years. Indiscriminate and imbalance use of chemical fertilizers especially urea along with others harmful pesticides and unavailability of organic manure has led to considerable deteriorations in soil health. Hence restoring soil health has emerged a major challenge before the farming community. However use of chemical
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fertilizers in crops ( excluding Tea) in the district is very low in comparison with agriculturally advanced districts of the state like Nagaon, Darrang, Barpeta etc.
5.4 Water resource and management
Almost 90% of cultivated area is rainfed in the district. Since most of the crops are raised as rain fed water resource management is one of the key factors for determining the yield.
Though the district enjoys an abundant of rainfall (2076mm per annum) but the uneven distribution of rainfall over time spread of the year is major limiting factor in crop production in absence of a efficient and suitable water resource management system. Watershed management, rainwater harvesting and ground water recharge can help the augment water availability in rainfed areas.
On the other hand, the district has flood prone area of approximately 45061 ha, where unpredicted flood not only directly damages the standing crops but also leads to water stagnation, silt deposition and erosion causing serious threat to crop cultivation.
5.5 Major crops and varieties in the district
Paddy, Oilseed, Rabi vegetables, Kharif vegetables and potato are the major crops, which jointly occupies a total of 96322 ha (51.1% of gross cropped area) Paddy is grown in 41% of gross cropped area whereas potato and oilseeds together cover about 7% area. Among the horticultural crops Arecanut, Banana, Assam lemon, Turmeric and Ginger occupy the first five positions in terms of area (5805ha)
Table 5..2 Important crop varieties grown
Paddy
Paddy
Oilseeds
Varieties
Ranjt, Bahadur, Mahsuri. Some local varieties like Solpona, Bora (local),
Joha (local), Chakua (local), Bas, Borjahinga, Panja Sali etc
M-27, Varuna and locals
Rabi vegetable Hybrids and others other improved varieties
Kharif vegetables Hybrids and others other improved varieties
Potato Kufri Chandrmukhi, Bangle Sona
5.6
Input Management
Irrigation, Seed, Fertilizer, Pesticides, Farm Machineries and Credit are the important inputs for enhancing crop productivity .
Seeds
In present days high yielding varieties of almost every crop are becoming popular among the farmers . In paddy, High yielding varieties are cultivated in 62% of total cultivated paddy area and in the remaining 38% local paddy like Bora (gluteneous) Joha (Scented) and
Chakua along with other general varieties like Solpona etc area grown. Though seeds are sold by the authorized private seed dealers of the district majority of the farmers mainly rely on the farm saved seeds especially in case of paddy. Some interested farmers also collect certified seed directly from Regional Agricultural Research Station, Titabor. The department has implemented a massive certified seed production programme under seed village scheme for paddy and black gram as designated crops.
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Table 5.3 Seed village
Crop Variety Areas in ha No of village
790 59
No of farmers
2950
Seed produced in
Qt
15820 Paddy Ranjit and
Swarnamahsuri
Blackgram T-9 15.6 5 78 152
In case of Kharif and Rabi vegetable farmers mostly procured the hybrid/HYV seeds from the dealers.
Fertilizers: In addition to use of organic manure farmers are using fertilizers to meet the nutrients needs of the crops. Fertilizers are made available to the farmers through private agencies. The fertilizer consumption of the district for the year 2009-10 is presented in the table
4.4
Table 5.4: Consumption of fertilizer in the district during 2009-10
Season
Kharif
Urea (MT)
1025
SSP (MT)
1915
DAP (MT)
595
MOP (MT)
547
Total (MT)
8894
Rabi
Total
2472
3497
2060
3975
405
1000
885
1432
5025
13913
Fertilizer consumption in the year was low because of inadequate supply of Urea and DAP.
Farm mechanization: Country made age old agricultural implements like wooden plough, bamboo leveler etc are still in used among the farmers. However after introduction of improved agricultural implements the farmers are using different popularized implements like MB plough, weeder, sprayer, wheel hoe, seed drill, low lift pump, STW, power tiller and tractors.
Pesticides: Various chemical pesticides are in use by the farmers for controlling different pests and diseases of their crops. These chemicals are being sold by the authorized private dealers.
However a new trend of using organic pesticide is noticed specially in paddy and vegetables.
The department is encouraging the farmers for the purpose through different trainings and demonstrations etc. The present level of consumption of pesticide in the district is presented in the table 32 of annexure I.
Irrigation: Irrigation specially in the rabi season becomes most essential for raising crops due to scanty rainfall in that period. Approximately 11% of the total cultivated land possesses assured irrigation facilities with the helps of different means. At present STWs are found to be most popular among the farmers and also are the largest contributors of assured irrigation. The department is providing STWs to the farmers and their groups at subsidized rate under AACP,
TMIDH, MMMA etc. The detail source wise status of irrigation is presented in the table 10 of annexureI.
Credit: Financial institutions mainly banks are advancing short term loans to the farmers as
KCC for raising their crops in commercial ways. For the purpose the department identify the beneficiaries and forward their applications to the banks for getting their loans. The achievement made under KCC scheme for the last three years is presented below.
Table 5.5: Achievement made under KCC scheme for the last three years
Year Target Applications sponsored to
Banks
KCC issued Amount Disbursed
(Lakh)
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
8000 4600
8000 7429
8000 5969
3004
3042
253.781
231.576
3596 Nos 755.337
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5.7.1 Agricultures

Area Expansion (improvement in land quality, bringing more area under cultivation, land development, irrigation development, ideal cropping pattern, development of commons, diversification)

Yield improvement (soil health and nutrient management, water management, seed management, farm mechanisation, technology dissemination)

Institutional support (skill upgradation of extension workers, farmer to farmer extension, public private partnership, strengthening ATMA, participatory research, credit support, marketing and post-harvest management, risk management, price support system)

Programmatic intervention (synergy between state and central initiatives, role and accountability in implementing the schemes, convergence of schemes)

Improved farmers income ( diversification, agricultural marketing, agro-processing and value addition, contract farming)
5.7.2 Horticulture

Knowledge and skill gap in production technologies

Proper water management

Post harvest management, processing and value addition

Quality planting material

Organized and efficient marketing structure

Cold storage facilities
5.7.3 Animal Husbandry and Dairy development

Breed development

Small ruminants

Poultry and duckery developments

Disease management

Fodder cultivation

Value addition and processing

Quality control of products

Institutional support service

Programmatic intervention
5.7.4 Fisheries

Infrastructure development (hatchery, pond preparation)

Institutional support (extension, research, credit, fingerlings)

Marketing and post-harvest management

Risk management

Programmatic intervention

Community mobilisation and skill upgradation
5.7.5 Sericulture
 Increase in the area under sericulture feed plantation
 Bridging the gap in technology adoptation
 Increase in the capacity of seed farms
 Improvement in credit and market linkages.
 Effective tie up of farmer’s cooperatives with weaver’s cooperatives
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5.7.6 Agricultural marketing and credit

Creating proper infrastructure

Create awareness among the farmers

Encouraging private markets as per Amendment of APMC Act 2005

Encouraging contract farming in the district

Facilitating SHGs for organised marketing
5.8 Major researchable Issues and strategies of the district
The researchable issues relating to agricultural production system and natural resource management are indicated in Table 5.6
Table 5.6 Researchable issues relating to agriculture, horticulture and NRM
Problems
Want of location specific technologies
Specific farmer problems which cannot be simulated at research farms
Gap in productivity of important crops
Research strategy
Development of location specific technologies for dominant farming situations
Identification of specific problems of different AES, prioritisation and development of appropriate solutions
Gap analysis and working out possible strategy in a participatory workshop and find out options to address the gaps
Proposed activities


Identification of specific farming situation based problems in issue based workshops
Field verification of innovation technologies adopted elsewhere to solve specific problems

On-farm trials with new solutions

Documentation of proven technologies.

Identification of researchable problems and prioritisation in issue based workshop

Identification of technologies available to address the problems

On-farm testing of technological options in farmer participatory research or participatory technology development (PTD)

Documentation of new technologies to address the farmers’ problems

Identification of possible options to address the yield gaps

Selection of research methods and
 conducting the researches in RRTTS
Replication of researches at ARS and final
 testing through on-farm trials
Recommendation of the options to abridge the gaps
Table 5.7 : Details of researchable issues
Critical issues
Non-availability of floodwater submerged tolerant varieties
(125-135 days) of paddy.
Field trial of location specific based package of practices for fish culture.
Proposed Strategies
Development of required varieties.
Carrying out farmers participatory research at farmers pond and release of package practices.
Non-availability of location specific Carrying out performance
AES wise performance evaluation
/recommendations of different evaluation study of all available hybrid varieties
Proposed Activities
Carrying out on station research and trial on farmers field.
Carrying out of on farm research trials
I. Carrying out on farm research trials every year to judge the performance of all available hybrid
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available newly evolved hybrid cultivars of vegetables in markets.
Low availability of ornamental indigenous fish for export
Infertility due to repeating A.I servicing in milch cows.
Non-availability of technology for organic farming of Vegetables of different vegetable crops in all AES
Carrying out rearing & breeding of ornamental exportable fishes.
Redressal of problem by conducting through study
Formulation of package of practices. cultivars of different vegetables.
II.
Organization of field day
Carrying out on station research & breeding.
Carrying out diagnose cum training to demonstrate the technology.
Formulation of package of practices for organic farming with required inputs.
Formulating package of practices for latest evolved pesticides
Technology for use of latest generation pesticides.
Formulation package of latest evolved pesticides
With in the extension and research issues priority will be given to the following three factors
–
1.
On Farm Trial (OFT)
– Critical interventions deemed appropriate for a particular farming system or cropping system will be tested through OFT to access their effectiveness and suitability for that particular agro climatic situation.
2.
Front Line Demonstration (FLD) – Certain issues / interventions to which farmers show apparent resistance or increases the risks of the farmers will be demonstrated to the farmers in strategic locations in each AES through FLD.
3.
Training – Training on appropriate issues involving the stakeholders (Farmers/ Traders) will be conducted with suitable resource persons and extension tools where in the KVK will also be involved.
Some salient points emerged out the researchable issues and strategies
1.
Suitable crops and varieties to promote double cropping.
2.
Integrated Farming system Research
3.
Identification of location specific technologies
4.
Appropriate technology for productivity increase of Pulses and oilseeds
5.
Empowering the farmers own seed supply system
6.
Strengthening the traditional bari system of farming
7.
Appropriate technology for rainfed areas of resource poor farmers
8.
Suitable technologies for organic farming
9.
Purification of popular old varieties of major crops in order to increase their productivity
Table No5.8 Estimated production, demand and surplus/deficit status Of the district (year 2008)
Crop
Rice
Production
000.tonnes
142.70
Estimated
demand
000’tonnes
185.85
Deficit/surplus
000’tonnes
-43.15
Pulses
Oil seeds
1.46
5.82
12.44
16.60
-10.98
-10.78
Banana
Pineapple
Papaya
Assam lemon
Arecanut
Coconut
Potato
Chilies
37.71
2.96
3.76
2.18
9.52
10.20
15.62
1.01
39.61
3.70
5.48
4.44
9.94
2.74
31.69
1.10
-1.90
-0.76
-1.72
-2.26
-0.42
-2.54
-16.07
-0.09
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Turmeric
Zinger
Black peeper
Orange
Rabi vegetable
Kharif vegetable
4.98
2.13
0.33
0.68
43.09
24.57
5.13
2.20
0.41
2.74
82.29
61.71
-0.15
-0.07
-0.08
-2.06
-39.20
-37.14
The overall agriculture growth in the district is low which is reflected in lower productivity, low input use, primitive nature of implement use and low adoption of improved technology. There is vast scope of area expansion as well as productivity increase of almost all the major crops. From table no 4.7 it is revealed that the district is deficient in production of almost all the foodgrain and non food crops with respect to the demand of the district. In order to meet the demand of the growing population a holistic approach is necessary along with growth in the other allied sectors. The block wise yield gap of major crops have been indicated in the table 27 of the annexure.
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(A) Constraints and solution intervention
6.1 Agriculture:
The following table tries to enumerate the various constrains of agriculture growth in the district in general.
Area Constrains
Ecological Land degradation
Production system
Soil nutrient depletion
Biodiversity erosion
Soil reaction
Water management
Low productivity
Low profitability
Major reasons
Recurring flood causes erosion, silt deposition and water logging condition.
Imbalance use of chemical fertilizer, low use of organic mater and excess runoff
Loss of precious agrobiodiversity due to more emphasis on few selected varieties of selected crops
Leaching of base material due to erosion and non use of proper soil amendments.
Lack of awareness on natural water management system
Low adoption of technology
Improper use of natural resources
Inadequate farm mechanization
Adverse and unpredictable impact of the nature.
Poor soil and water management practices as well as facilities
Traditional mindset of the farmers
Rise in production cost
Marketing constraints
Lower crop yield
A major revival package is essential for the growth and development of the agriculture and allied sector linked to higher investment and strategies to make agriculture attractive and profitable. Different strategies in combination with technology, credit, marketing, risk management and institutional support would be required to revitalize the agricultural economy of the district. Among the sub-sectors, a major increase has been proposed for crop husbandry, animal husbandry, fisheries and agricultural research. Enhancement of food grain production, supplementary income sources through livestock and fish production have been given thrust in the annual plan 2008-09 based on the broad framework of the Eleventh Five Year Plan.
Innovative schemes have been suggested for promotion of organic farming, soil health maintenance, integrated farming system and diversification.
6.2 Horticulture
Constraints in horticultural production system
Significant yield Knowledge and skill gap in production technologies gap in fruits, Non-adoption of IPM/INM vegetables and Scarcity of water at critical crop stages spices 
Excess post harvest loss

Imbalanced use of plant nutrients
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
Want of rejuvenation of old orchards and senile plants

Low profitability
Dearth of quality planting materials

Unorganized marketing


Want of cold storages and cool chain system of transportation
Lack of value addition and agro-processing

High cost involvement
6.3 Animal husbandry and Dairy
Slow rate of cross breeding Malnutrition of indigenous cows/buffaloes and artificial insemination

Constraints in transportation of LN
2 and frozen semen

Inadequate mobility and supervision

Prevalence of stray bull and natural crossing

Repeat breeding

Limited LIs for door service

Low productivity of dairy
Limited bank finance for CB cows

Want of green fodder specially during dry seasons as well as flood. animals 

Poor sanitation, nutrition and housing
Improper health measures like vaccination, deworming etc.

Non-availability of medicines in rural areas

Knowledge and skill gap among dairy farmers

Limited insurance facility
Low productivity of poultry Severe diseases birds 
Technological gap in nutrition, management and housing

Non-availability of poultry feed at reasonable rate

Limited finance and insurance

Unorganized marketing
Low productivity of small Want of improved breeds of goat and sheep ruminants 
Poor nutrition, housing and sanitation
Lack of deworming and periodic treatment against major diseases
6.4. Fisheries
Various constraints identified in fishery development are:

Lack of ownership of community water bodies

Derelict water

Technological gap in improved cultivation

Insufficient availability of improved fry/fingerling

Inadequate credit support

Limited composite pisciculture

Lack of processing and storage

Limited hatcheries
6.5 Sericulture and Handloom.
 Limited area under sericulture feed plantation
 Poor adoption of scientific rearing practices
 Non availability of quality planting materials of feed plants
 Poor credit flow for the sectors
 Lack of coordination between rearer and weavers. .
 Lack of modern weaving technology.
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6.6 Agricultural marketing and Credit management
Farmers of the district have a lot of strengths for increasing farm production in spite of encountering many problems. Out of them, accessibility to markets, credit institutions and adequate availability of qualitative required inputs in time are prime one. These problems are causing the hindrance to them in achieving economical growth.
6.7
Existing markets and infrastructure
Though, the district falls under purview of Regulated Market areas but principal market yard has not yet been notified. Similarly, sub market yard also has not been established yet. So, the district does not have any administrative building of regulated market committee except
Dibrugarh district regulated market committee (DDRMC) Office, which is also at presently functioning from a rented house. The district has no other marketing facilities than 3auction plate forms constructed by DDRMC at Lengeri, Jokai and Rajgarh. However, 10 non-regulated markets are functioning in the district as per detail presented in the following table, regarding to their location, important commodities handled and periodicity of marketing. In addition to the markets of towns and sub towns’ major marketing of agricultural and horticultural commodities is carried out through traditional haat system in inaccessible rural areas of the district. There are
76 such haats/rural wholesale. market deals with vegetables, pulses, oilseeds, fruits, poultry, pig, goat and other commodities. These haats/ markets are generally weekly and few are daily in nature and there are 76 haats as given below in table.
Table6.1a : Information on location of existing markets & commodities handled during2008-09
Block Market center Area Important commodities & yearly quality Periodicity
Borboruah
Tengakhat
Borboruah
Jokai
Panitola Chabua
Tengakhat
Duliajan
Katahguri
Naharkatia covered
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Local Fish – 1, Vegetable – 102
Vegetable – 8, Rice – 10
Vegetable – 82 , Rice – 84
Goat Meat – 800Nos
Rice – 65, Vegetable – 56
Rice – 72 handled (in tons)
Vegetables – 80 Goat – 550Nos
Pig – 750Nos.
Rice – 56
Vegetables – 60
Vegetable – 10, Rice – 10
Weekly
Weekly
Daily
Daily
Daily
Weekly
Joypur
Tingkhong
Khowang
Lahowal
-
Khowang
Lahowal
Dikom
-
-
-
-
Goat – 450Nos.
-
Vegetable – 25, Local Fish – 18
Mustard Seed – 10
Vegetable – 6, Goat – 400Nos
Vegetable – 7,Goat – 300Nos
Weekly
& Daily
-
Daily
Weekly & Daily
Weekly
Table6.2.b: Information on location of existing haats & commodities handled during2008-09
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1
Sl.
No.
Name of Block
Borboruah
2
3
4
5
Panitola
Tengakhat
Joypur
Tingkhong
Name of market
Hachure
Jokai saraighat
Katonah
Madhupur
Lezal
Lepetkata
1 no. Ghurania
Dewanbari
Hatiah
Dinjan
Deodhana
Kanjikhowa TE
Kharjan TE
Chabua TE
Rungamati TE
Mount TE
Legra TE
Dikom TE
Duliajan oil market
Belbari (Dhoria Dighalia)
Bhadoi panchali
Tingrai chariali
Telpani
Tipping
Nepco Bokuloni
Kothaloni
Kaliyoni
Joypur
Namrup
Namrup TE
Joypur TE
Naharkatia TE
Mrbil
Ragarh Rangali
Rajgarh
Salmari
Pithaguti Tinali
Tingkhong TE
Bamunbari
Dillibari
Kenduguri
Ouphulia TE
Moran
Khowang-ghat
Khowang TE
Damurikhati chariali
Sensowa Pukhuria
Naharani Sonowal
Rochi pathar
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Periodicity
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Daily
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Daily
Weekly
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Daily/Weekly
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Daily/Weekly
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-

6
7
Khowang
Lahowal
Saharkata
Lengeri
Haladhibari Barpathar
Pub run Nigam
3 no. Ghoragaj
Dulia bam TE
Salmari TE
Namdung chariali
Moran Lahorihat
Ouguli
Demarche
Khowang Bagan
Khowang
Moran Khotkhoti
Spoon
Serepakhati
Ghoramora
Dikom
Bokul
Mohamoria
Rah Maria
Bokul TE
Lahowal TE
Chengrelijan TE
Rangaliting TE
Romaic TE
Ghorajan TE
Inflow and outflow pattern of marketing
In almost all agricultural and allied sector’s produces, the district is deficit and these are mainly imported by both public viz. FCI and private sector viz. wholesale merchants and traders. Although, farmers and traders from bordering areas to neighboring districts export some quantity of certain commodities but no such authentic data is available in district.
Difficulties faced by farmers in marketing
In broad term almost all the problems associated with marketing are persisting in the district. Major problems, which are being faced by the farmers in marketing of their produces, are as under; i) As the district has a poor market infrastructural facilities as indicated above, which indicates that marketing environment yet to be created in the district. ii) Farmers are facing problem in transportation of their produces from distant/ remote areas to markets reason being that rural roads are either not in good condition particularly during rainy season or not exist at all. Therefore, farmers have no option except to invest more toward incidental cost of transportation, which ultimate resulting in reduction of net return. iii) The middlemen determined the term of trade & prices. Actually, farmers are not permitted to sell their produces as a retailer in markets reason being that market-sheds & apartments are allotted on lease money to a particular trader for a specific period, who further allocates the space to other traders and retailers against collection fees. Therefore, farmers
-Do-
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Daily
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
Weekly
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do-
-Do
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are bound to sell their produces to them at low price as they do not have any other option and thereby farmers are not getting genuine price of their produces. iv) Storage facility neither existed with the most of markets nor in nearby of market where the farmers can keep their produces for some days/period: hence they are bound to sell their produces what so ever price is offered to them by purchasers, which is generally much lower than the actual and there by the net return of the farmers is reduced. v) 89.49% farmers belong to small, marginal or landless categories; hence as an individual farmer is not producing so bulk quantity, which can be transported to distant markets due to high cost of transportation and other recurring expenditure towards to & fro etc charges therefore, middlemen as well as traders are exploiting their this weakness by offering the low price. vi) Sorting and grading is not popular among the farmers, which deprives them in getting the remunerative prices for their produces vii) Due to poor financial capability and non -accessibility to credit institutions, farmers are taking the advance money from traders normally on the condition that they will sell their produces to them and by this way they lost their bargaining power. vii) Persistence of miss-trust amongst the farming community is a biggest social hindrance in way of joint/ collective marketing & thereby they are selling their produces individually at low or non -remunerative price.
The present day, farmers are adopting two or more enterprises with their numerous commodities and for that they require regular and adequate funds due to their poor financial capabilities. Therefore, a healthy & trustworthy linkage needed amongst farmers and bankers so that a very strong fund flow mechanism could be established.
Existing credit infrastructure & amount disbursed
At present, 16 commercial banks viz. State bank of India, Union bank of India, Indian
Oversees bank, Regional rural bank (Assam Gramin vikash bank), Punjab National bank,
Allahabad bank, United bank of India, Canara bank, Assam State Cooperative Apex Bank, UCO
Bank, Indian Bank, Central Bank of India, Punjab & Sind Bank, Syndicate Bank, Vijoya Bank and ICICI Bank existed in district.
Apart from these, Moneylenders, SHGs & Traders are also providing loan to farming community. On aggregate,2170 nos. of crop loan amounting a total
Rs.404.565 lakhs were disbursed by all banks during 2008-09. Block wise detail of credit institution, and amount disbursed is depicted in the following table
Table 6.3 Details of Credit Institution
Block No of Institution Total
Barbarua
Tingkhong
Tengakhat
Joypur
Commercial
Bank
10
3
8
10
Khowang
Panitola
Lahowal
5
5
6
Source: Dist. Agril Office
3
-
4
1
2
1
3
RRBs Cooptve PACS Others
-
1
1
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
6
9
13
3
13
12
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Table 6.4: Crop Loan Distribution(Short term credit)
ADO Circle Loan distributed in 2008-09
Coop Bank Commercial Bank
Barbarua
Tingkhong
Tengakhat
Joypur
Khowang
No of loan
7
25
Amount
(Rs. In lakh)
0.695
0.75
No of loan
207
279
342
117
210
Amount
(Rs. In lakh)
45.25
No of loan
186
60.85L -
80.57L
1.02L
31.5L
235
15
5
Panitola
Lahowal - -
122
250
Total 32
Source: Dist. Agril Office
1.445 1527
Difficulties being faced by financial institutions
40.75L 20
53.84 150
313.78 611
RRBs
Amount
(Rs. In lakh)
32.2
-
38.34L
1.7L
0.25L
11.6L
5.25
89.34
As per bankers, they are facing the following difficulties in advancement of loan to the farming community: i. Lack of staff due to which banks are facing trouble in field verification etc. ii. Farmers are not well aware with loan procedures hence; lot of time is needed in completion of Bank formalities. iii. Inadequate recovery of loans.
Agriculture development:
As agriculture is the main occupation of the district, and a majority of the total population is dependent on agriculture, a higher economic growth is not possible without a vibrant and steady agriculture growth. A higher growth in other sectors, however desirable, can also not be sustained without significant growth in agriculture nor can it change the complexion of the economy, from backwardness to prosperity or compensate for lower growth in agriculture. The net sown area of the district is about 38% of the geographical area whereas the area under forest cover is 8.54% which indicates the importance of both agriculture and forestry in the district. The gross cropped area of the district is 188692 ha with a cropping intensity of
148%. The cultivable waste land and current fallow jointly account for 4.64% (15461 ha) of total geographical area. Paddy, Oilseed, Rabi vegetables, Kharif vegetables and potato are the major crops, which jointly occupies a total of 96322 ha (51.1% of gross cropped area) Paddy is grown in 41% of gross cropped area whereas potato and oilseeds together cover about 7% area.
Horticulture, Animal husbandry, Dairy development, Fisheries development, Sericulture,
Handloom & textile are DICC are allied sectors contribute substantially to agricultural growth of the district. The livestock and fisheries sectors provide full time or part time employment to a significant no.s of the total working population. The fisheries sector has vast potential in the district for providing employment to the fisher folk in the district. Sericulture and Handloom sectors are also considered to be play a major role in economic growth of the rural mass, particularly rural women. Allied sector development assumes importance in the district as there is rising demand for such products due to rapid industrialization and urbanization.
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5.2 Horticulture development
Although, type of soils and abundant rainfall are blessing for the commercial cultivation of different subtropical fruit crops such as Banana, Assam lemon, Mandarin orange,
Coconut, Areca nut, Jackfruit, even than the fruit crops are mainly grown in homestead gardens popularly known as Bari, to meet out their domestic demands and surplus if any, is sold in markets. A very small area is under commercial cultivation of fruit crops, that too is gaining momentum after the introduction of centrally sponsored scheme “Technology Mission” in the district, and as a result of that the area under Banana is showing an increasing trends with a present area of 1813 ha.
5.3 Animal husbandry and dairy development
At present, district have 416523 no of catles among which 18676 upgraded and 411047 no of indigenous cattles. 35325 no.s of Buffaloes, 252 sheep, 179162 goats, 578951 Duck. The piggery, Goatery and duckery are major enterprise in this sector. However, Poultry is emerging as of the promising one and is being taken up by the youth in groups. The district is deficient in milk production. As the district population of the district is basically non-vegetarian in food habit there is a tremendous demand of meat and egg. Pork is one of the important meat of the district, because it is associated with social rituals of the indeginous people of the district. Partial quantity of all these items is being imported from other districts & states The reasons for low production area as lack of awareness among the livestock producers in rural areas on crossbred programmes of local cows and also lack of financial assistance for rearing of meat animals & birds.
5.4 Fishery development
Fish is an important constituent of portentous dietary component, which is needed by each & every person to combat malnutrition. The fish culture rearing occupies an area of 8247.07 ha, out of which 1208.48 ha is under ponds & tanks, 5021.60 ha under river water, 821.50 ha under beel fisheries, and 202.60 ha under swamp and low-lying areas. The present annual fish production is about 8146.95
MT and over all productivity is 30.45
qtls. / Ha / yr. The trend of fish productivity over the period of 1970-71 to 2008-09 has increased from 7.0 qtls to 30.45 qtls.
Fish seed production and its productivity have remained static
Sericulture is an important cottage industry of the district. The prevailing mild climatic conditions viz high rainfall and relative humidity are helping for persuading the sericulture as a way of life to some of farmers particularly in middle and western part of the district. This practice gives much higher return regularly then traditional crops like rice. Finishing products are even more remunerative. About 18,000 Sericulture farm families are engaged in Eri, Muga and Mulberry rearing in the district and are producing around to 8 MT productions. Muga
Reeling cocoons produced in the district are mainly procured by outside purchasers viz.
Sualkuchi.
1. Low crop productivity: This could be attributed to- a) Low input use b) Non availability of quality seed and planting material c) Depletion of natural resource
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d) Gap in technology adoption e) Low SRR
2. Low productivity in allied sectors a) Non availability of location specific suitable technology b) Gap in adoption of existing technology c) Poor rate of breed upgradation
3. Low profitability a) Un organized marketing b) Lack of agro-
processing unit and value addition c) Low factor productivity
4. Low investment in agriculture d) Poor infrastructure
5. Socio-economic factors such as low literacy rate, high numbers of families below poverty line etc.
6. Poor and inadequate irrigation cover and inefficient water management policy
7. Scattered and small land holding
8. Poor farm mechanization.
Development issues-
The following issues are to be addressed efficiently in order to achieve a sustainable agricultural development and poverty alleviation.
12.
Infrastructural development
13.
Natural Resource Management
14.
Adaptive research on emerging technologies
15.
Assured and timely availability of quality inputs
16.
Integrated Farming system approach and diversification
17.
Skill development and capacity building of farmers
18.
Drudgery reduction through farm mechanization
19.
Gender equilibrium
20.
Post harvest handling and value addition
21.
Credit management and insurance cover
22.
Public-Private partnership
Table6.5 : Detail of commodity wise Prioritized issues and solution
Issues
1.Low production and productivity due to: - i . Cultivation of local varieties. ii.
Imbalanced and low use of chemical fertilizers with improper methods. iii. Low replacement of rateof seed of HYV iv. High infestation of Rice Hispa, Stem borer, Case Worm.
Solution
1. Paddy
1 .Increase in productivity aggregatively (winter
& Autumn paddy) from 23.07 q/ha to 30 q/ha
during project period.
2 .Expansion of the area under autumn paddy
from 5735 ha to 10000 ha.
3. Promote the use of super digest and vermi
compost and bio fertilizers.
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2.Fruit crop (Banana, Orange, Assam lemon, Papaya )
1.Low productivity due to : i. Poor quality of planting materials. ii.
In-appropriate adoption of production technology iii.
Lack of irrigation facility iv . Post harvest loss (Banana) v. Non adoption of intercropping with
seasonal crops
1.
3
Increase productivity from 17.94ton/Ha to
20 t
2.
Assured supply of quality planting materials.
.Assured water management.
4. Adoption of intercropping
3.Vegetables including Potato
1 .Low productivity due to: i . Lack of adoption 1. Improve productivity of kharif vegetables of full package of practices. ii . Lack of knowledge about pests & diseases
From 9.7ton/Ha to 12ton
2 . Promote organic vegetable cultivation. control. iii.
High infestation of pest and diseases.
1. Low productivity due to: i. Practice of open grazing hence natural breeding by Stray bulls. ii . In adequate availability of green fodder except in rainy season. iii . Improper health care & sanitation iv. Very low adoption of Artificial insemination forGenetic up gradation
4.Cow
1. Increase Productivity of milk from 1.1 lt to
1.8 lt.
2.
Improve availability of Green fodder.
3.Emphasis on Genetic up gradation
1 .
Low productivity due to i. Low availability of improved breed. ii. Partials adoption of recommended rearing practices. iii . Lack of knowledge of proper health care.
5.Pig
1.
Increase productivity from 76 kg to 82Kg
2.
Increase pig rearers--- by addl 20%
1 .Low productivity due to i . Low availability of improved breed birds. ii. Partials adoption of recommendations.
I.
Increase productivity of eggs per bird / year.
From 80 to 120
1.
Low productivity due to:
7.Culture / Composite Fish
1.
Increase productivity of fish from 1.4 ton to
*Non-availability quality fish seed in time. 2 ton.
*Stocking of small size& in high-density fish seed
*In adequate application of supplementary feed.
2.
To establish 7 Eco – hatchery for supplying
of quality fish seed.
3.
To mobilize 14 units (2nos/block) for
decentralize productionof fish fingerlings from
fry stage.
4.
Motivate 14 SHGs to establish breeding &
rearing units of duckery & Piggery.
*Imbalanced use of org & inorg fertilizers.
*Non-adoption of pre & post stocking techniques.
* Lack of soil & water quality management.
* Low adoption of multiple stocking & multiple harvesting techniques. Low adoption of integrated fish farming
(fish + paddy, fish + piggery, fish + duckery) due to non-availability of improved breed of pig & duck.
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8. Sericulture
1 .
Low productivity due to
- Non availability of quality Eri seed in time
- No systematic plantation
- Lack of post cocoon infrastructures
. Non availability of disease free seeds
- Lack of awareness of technology
Monkey and birds menace
1.
Assured supply of quality planting
materials
2.Awareness building on Scientific crop raising and for adoption of modern technology
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Some ongoing major developmental schemes :
Various ongoing programmes for development in the field of agricultural are being implemented in the district. The schemes are under central sector and state sector along with some World bank sponsored programmes. The schemes with their own guidelines are being implemented for the benefit of the farmers. Major schemes being implemented are presented in the following table.
Table 7.1: Major schemes being implemented in the district
Sector Scheme Activity Objective of scheme
Expansion of area under Banana, Assam lemon and Black pepper to create market accessibility
(A) Agriculture
Central
World
Bank
TMIDH Training, Govt. assistance for
Are expansion and other components
NWDPRA Training, demonstration,
Community organization
MMMA Training on Integrated Pest
Management
Subsidy for Powertiller
AACP
ATMA
Farm mechanization
Extension
State ABY
CRF
Farm mechanization
Calamity affected farmers
To develop project area by utilizing available water and to improve economic condition of farmers in group concept.
To create awareness on eco friendly pesticides and bio control methods of plant protection
Improving mechanization in agriculture with subsidy
Encouraging mechanization of agriculture with subsidy
Transfer of technology to the farmers along with demonstration
Provide subsidy for purchase of farm machineries
Distribution of seeds of different crops to compensate their loss.
Disease control for livestock
Genetic upgradation of local breedable cows
(B) Animal Husbandry
State ASCAD Vaccination programme
State
World bank
AI Scheme under
ALDA
AACP Pre and post monsoon health camp
Central VCF
Artificial insemination
Health camp for livestock
Central RKVY
Bank finance with 50% interest free loan
1.Capacity building
2.Community pasture
3.
Goatery farming
4.
Mix fodder
Awareness building on livestock health care
Aids for commercial rearing of livestock
Increasing productivity and production of livestock component
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(C) Fisheries
World bank
AACP
Central FFDA
1. Farmers pond
2.Integrated fish farming
3.Community tank development
4.Beel fishery dev.
5. Trg. & awareness camp
1. Delink subsidy
2. Bank linkage
3. Trg and infrastructure dev.
Bank linkage scheme
Economic upliftment of the down trodden fish farmers through participation
Providing financial assistance for economic upliftment of the fish armers
Central NFDB
State State plan Conversion of derelicts water body, low lying areas into fishery tank/pond.
State ABY Develop water areas into fish culture
Yarn
Handloom and Textile
Distribution of yarn distribution
Providation of Work shed
Sericulture
Central Catalytic
Dev. programme
Construction of work shed for use of weavers.
Creation of Infrastructure for dev. Of the sector
State State Plan Extension activities
Farm Maintenanc
Providing financial assistance for infrastructure development.
Uplft the economic condition of the SC/ST, general and women fish farmers
To create employment opportunity.
Encouraging weaving as a means of livelihood.
To Develop Basic Infrasture
Strengthen Extension activities
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Recommended intervention and action plan with cost
Realizing the constrains, opportunities and potential of the district various interventions are suggested to achieve a growth rate of 4% during 11 th five year plan period, as under –
Sl Name of work Unit 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
I Crop/Demonstration
1 Sali
2 Sali Hybrid
3 Mustard
4 Pea
5 Boro Paddy
6 E/Ahu demo
7 Maize demo
8 Potato demo
9 TPS demo
10 Black gram
11 Green gram
12 Lentil demo
13 IPM demo /Training
14 Sprayer distribution
15 Power Sprayer distribution
16 Soil testing kit
17 INM demo
18 Biofertilizer at subsidy
19 Fertilizer at subsidy
20 Distribution of Thela
21 Technical Training
22 Exposure visit for farmers outside state)
23 Agril Marketting (Value addition)
B At Dist HQ
1 Vehicle-BoleroFor Sub divns
2 Laptop
3 Generator
4 Office Contingency/TA
5 Office Computer
6 LCD Projector
7 Office furniture
.4Ha
1Ha
1Ha
1Ha
No
No
No
No
Ha
1Ha
1Ha
0.5Ha
1Ha
1Ha
2Ha
.13Ha
1Ha
No
No
No
30No
20Nos
4
2
2
2
-
2
2
30
15
45
15
10
450
300
20
120
15
150
40
150
90
12
6
300
40
500
2000
500
150
23
4Nos
2
2
2
-
2
2
LS
15
45
15
10
450
300
20
120
15
150
40
150
90
12
6
300
40
500
2000
350
150
23
4Nos
-
-
-
-
4Nos
-
-
-
-
15
45
15
10
450
300
20
120
15
150
40
150
90
12
6
300
40
500
2000
350
150
23
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Sl Name of work
3. Agricultural Research
1 Technology testing at framers field
2 Farmers training on recent technologies
3 Farmers fare
4 Infrastructural support to the research organization
5 TA
/contingency
4. Agril. Engg
A Basic Infrastructure at HQ level
1 Const. of DAO`soffice building
2 Const.of Agril. Eng workshop
3 Const. of Cold Storage at Dib
4 Const. of whole sale market at
Naharkatia
5 Construction of Supervisory
Training Centre
6 Const. of AEE`sresidential Qtr.
7 Const. of Seed cum fertilizer godown Naharkatia
8 Const. of boundary wall at AEE`s
Office,
9 Agril. Service Centres cum open
Shed
10 Storage cum Seed godown
11 Fruit preservation & canning Centre
12 Threshing floor
13 Road side Market shed
14 Storage seed Bin
15 Const. of ADO`sQtr. at Dibrugarh
16 Renovation ofADO`s Qtr.
17 Renovation ofVLEW qtr.
18 Renovation of Agril. GuestHouse
19 Renovation ofSMS`s qtr.at
Naharkatia
20 Renovation of Barrack type 3Unit qtr.at Naharkatia
21 Renovation ofFormen`s officeRoom,store cum Machinery shedat AEE`s office
22 Renovation of Barrack type qtr (3 unit) at AEE`s office
23 Renovation of Chowkider`s qtrat
AEE`s office
24 Renovation of SMS qtr. at Dib
25 Renovation ofSDAO`s qtr. Dib.
26 Renovation of JE`s qtr.Dib
Unit
No
No
No
LS
LS
1 no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
3 no
1 no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
2no
3 no
3 no
3 no
10no
10no
2 no
2no
3no
1 no
1 no.
3 no
3no
3 no
3 no
10no
10no
2 no
2 no
3.no
1no
1 no
1 no
1 no
2009-10 2010-11
21
28
21
28
7 7
1 no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
1no
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2 no
2 no
2 no
2 no
10 no
10no
2 no
-
-
-
-
-
-
2011-12
21
28
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2 no
2 no
2 no
2 no
10no
10no
2 no
-
-
-
-
-
-
1no
1no
1no
1no
2no
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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Sl Name of work
27 Renovation ofForeman`s Dib
28 Renovation ofDOCC Office
29 Renovation of VLEW qtr. Dib
B) Land and water management projects
Unit
1no
1 no.
2no
1 Land Development Project.
2 Micro Drainage.
3 Flow Irrigation
4 Agril. Earthen Bund.
5 Water Harvesting Tank.
6 Community Tank.
7 Gully Control Structure.
8 Sand Removal cum desiltation.
9 Vermi Compost Pit.
C) Agril. Mechanization
1 Tractor.
2 Power Tiller with trailor.
3 Self Propelled Paddy transplanter.
4 Self Propelled Reaper.
5 Power Paddy Thresher.
6 Paddy Sheller with polisher.
7 Hand Compression Sprayer.
8 Oil Expellor.
D) Minor Irrigation.
1 STW with P/Set.
2 LLP with P/Set.
3 Sprinkler Irrigation.
4 B.T.W
Big Tubewell.
5 Drip Irrigation
6 Electrical Operated STW
7 Green House
8 Taining on Farm Mechanization
(100)
No
No
No
No
Sl Name of work
I. Agriculture
1 Sali
2 Sali Hybrid
3 Mustard
4 Pea
5 Boro Paddy
6 E/Ahu demo
7 Maize demo
8 Potato demo
9 TPS demo
Unit 2009-
10
1Ha
1Ha
9.0
4
0.5Ha
1Ha
18
7.2
1Ha 1.44
2Ha 1.2
.13Ha 22.5
1Ha 26.4
.4Ha 1.05
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Hact.
Hact.
Hact.
No
No.
No
No
Hact.
No
No
No
No
No
2009-10 2010-11
1no -
1no
2no
-
-
50
200
10
10
10
10
7000
10
3500
2500
500
17
30
15
25
50
70
1000
1000
50
7
50
200
10
10
10
10
7000
10
3500
2500
500
14
30
15
-
50
70
1000
1000
50
7
10
100
200
40
9.0
4
18
7.2
1.44
1.2
22.5
26.4
1.05
10
100
200
40
2010-11 2011-12
9.0
4
18
7.2
1.44
1.2
22.5
26.4
1.05
2011-12
-
-
-
50
200
10
10
10
10
7000
10
3500
2500
500
12
30
15
-
-
70
1000
1000
50
7
10
100
200
40
Total
27
12
54
21.6
4.32
3.6
67.5
79.2
3.15
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Sl Name of work
10 Black gram
11 Green gram
12 Lentil demo
13 IPM demo /Training
14 Sprayer distribution
15 Power Sprayer distribution
16 Soil testing kit
17 INM demo
18 Biofertilizer at subsidy
19 Fertilizer at subsidy
20 Distribution of Thela
21 Technical Training
22 Exposure visit for farmers outside state)
23 Agril marketing(Value addition)
B At Dist HQ
1 Vehicle-Bolero
For Sub divns
2 Laptop
3 Generator
4 Office Continge ncy/TA
5 Office Computer
6 LCD Projector
7 Office furniture
III. Agricultural Research
Unit 2009-
10
1Ha 4.5
1Ha
1Ha
No
No
No
No
Ha
No
No
No
1.5
0.7
0.45
6
1.0
3.6
3.75
1.0
8.0
25.0
30No 6.0
20Nos 69.0
4
2
16.0
13.0
2
2
-
2
2
30
1.0
0.3
12.0
0.7
1.2
2.0
1 Technology testing at framers field No
2 Farmers training on recent technologies
3 Farmers fare
No
No
4 Infrastructural support to the research organization
LS
6.3
2.8
2.8
5.0
5 TA /contingency
IV. Agril. Engg
A Basic Infrastructure at HQ level
1 Const. of DAO`s office building 1no 80.00
2 Const.of Agril. Eng workshop 1no 50.00
3
4
Const. of Cold Storage at Dib
Const. of whole sale market at
Naharkatia
5 Construction of Supervisory
Training Centre
LS
1no 180.00
1no 110.0
1no
1.5
25.00
6 Const. of AEE`sresidential Qtr.
7 Const. of Seed cum fertilizer godown Naharkatia
8 Const. of boundary wall at AEE`s
Office,
1no 15.00
1no 10.00
1no 5.00
2010-11 2011-12
4.5
1.5
0.7
0.45
6
1.0
3.6
3.75
1.0
8.0
17.5
6.0
69.0
16.0
-
-
-
12.0
6.3
2.8
2.8
1.5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4.5
1.5
0.7
0.45
6
1.0
3.6
3.75
1.0
8.0
17.5
6.0
69.0
16.0
-
-
-
12.0
6.3
2.8
2.8
1.5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8.4
8.4
5
4.5
80.00
50.00
180.00
110.00
1
0.3
36
0.7
1.2
2
18.9
25.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
Total
13.5
4.5
2.1
1.35
18
3
10.8
11.25
3
24
60
18
207
48
0
13
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Sl Name of work Unit 2009-
10
3 no 30.00 9 Agril. Service Centres cum open
Shed
10 Storage cum Seed godown
11 Fruit preservation & canning
Centre
3 no
3 no
21.00
30.00
12 Threshing floor
13 Road side Market shed
3 no
10no
6.00
20.00
14 Storage seed Bin 10no 10.00
15 Const. of ADO`sQtr. at Dibrugarh 2 no 14.00
16
17
Renovation ofADO`s Qtr.
Renovation of VLEW qtr.
18 Renovation of Agril. Guest
House
19 Renovation ofSMS`s qtr.at
Naharkatia
20 Renovation of Barrack type 3
Unit qtr.at Naharkatia
2no 5.00
3no 4.50
1 no 10.00
1 no.
1 no
2.50
3.00
1no 5.00 21 Renovation ofFormen`s office
Room,store cum Machinery shedat
AEE`s office
22 Renovation of Barrack type qtr (3 unit)at AEE`s office
23 Renovation of Chowkider`s qtrat
AEE`s office
24 Renovation of SMS qtr. at Dib
25 Renovation of SDAO`s qtr. Dib.
26 Renovation of JE`s qtr.Dib
27 Renovation ofForeman`s Dib
28 Renovation ofDOCC Office
29 Renovation of VLEW qtr. Dib
1no
1no
1no
1 no.
2no
5.00
2.00
2.00
1no 2.00
2no 4.00
1no 2.00
5.00
2.00
2010-11
20.00
14.00
20.00
4.00
20.00
10.00
14.00
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
B) Land and water management projects
1 Land Development Project. Hact. 210.00 210.00
2 Micro Drainage.
3 Flow Irrigation
4 Agril. Earthen Bund.
Hact.
Hact.
No
75.00
30.00
85.00
75.00
30.00
70.00
5 Water Harvesting Tank.
6 Community Tank.
7 Gully Control Structure.
8 Sand Removal cum desiltation.
9 Vermi Compost Pit.
C) Agril. Mechanization
1 Tractor.
2 Power Tiller with trailor.
No.
No
No
Hact.
No
60.00
30.00
10.00
75.00
28.00
60.00
30.00
-
75.00
28.00
No 350.00 350.00
No 400.00 400.00
3 Self Propelled Paddy transplanter.
4 Self Propelled Reaper.
5 Power Paddy Thresher.
6 Paddy Sheller with polisher.
8 Hand Compression Sprayer.
No 22.00
No 20.00
No 8.00
No 15.00
22.00
20.00
8.00
15.00
No 210.00 210.00
-
-
-
-
-
-
2011-12
20.00
14.00
20.00
4.00
20.00
10.00
14.00
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
210.00
75.00
30.00
60.00
60.00
30.00
-
-
28.00
350.00
400.00
22.00
20.00
8.00
15.00
210.00
82
Total
70.00
49.00
70.00
14.00
60.00
30.00
42.00
5.00
4.50
10.00
2.50
3.00
5.00
5.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
4.00
2.00
5.00
2.00
630.00
225.00
90.00
215.00
180.00
90.00
10.00
150.00
84.00
1050.00
1200.00
66.00
60.00
24.00
45.00
630.00

Sl Name of work
9 Oil Expellor.
D) Minor Irrigation.
1 STW with P/Set.
2 LLP with P/Set.
3 Sprinkler Irrigation.
4 B.T.W
Big Tubewell.
5 Drip Irrigation
6 Electrical Operated STW
7 Green House
8 Taining on Farm Mechanization
(100)
9 Administrative cost for OE & TA
Sub Total (D)
Unit 2009-
10
No 10.00
2010-11
10.00
No 350.00 350.00
2011-12
10.00
350.00
No 270.00 270.00
No 25.00 25.00
No 25.00 25.00
270.00
25.00
25.00
No 4.00
No 30.00
4.00
30.00
No 100.00 100.00
No` 8.0 8.0
LS 10.00
822
10.00
822
4.00
30.00
100.00
8.0
10.00
822
Sl Name of work
1. Horticulture
1 Cole crop demo
2 Onion demo
3 Garlic demo
4 Brinjal demo
5 Tomato demo
6 Chilli demo
7 Squash demo
8 Ginger demo
9 Betel vine demo
10 Flower demo
11 Distribution of Assam lemon/
Orange layer /graft with fertilizer kit
12 Distribution of Coconut seedling with fertilizer kit
13 Assistance to small nursery
14 Poly green house
15 Organic farming on veg
16 Vermicompost demo
17 Vermicompost fert kit distribution
18 Bari Development-distribution fruit plant-graft/layers
2. Animal Husbandry
1 Goatery
2 Piggery
3 Poultry
4 Duckery
3. Dairy Development
Cattle Induction
Unit
1Ha
0.13Ha
0.13Ha
1Ha
1Ha
1Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
0.13Ha
20N os
6Nos
0.5Ha
000sft
Ha
18sft
6Kg
No
10:2
10:2
200
100
40
2009-10 2010-11
40 40
60
60
15
15
60
60
15
15
15
80
20
10
30
160
15
80
20
10
30
160
500
NA
NA
NA
NA
40
15
100
20
500
1400
700
500
NA
NA
NA
NA
40
15
100
20
500
1400
700
Total
30.00
1050.00
810.00
75.00
75.00
12.00
90.00
300.00
24.00
30.00
2466
2011-12
40
60
60
15
15
15
80
20
10
30
160
500
15
100
20
500
1400
700
NA
NA
NA
NA
40
83

Sl Name of work
Capacity building of farmers
Establishment of Milk collection unit
Upgradation of Chilling Plant,
Lahowal
Milk pickup van
Repairing of ADDO Office
Repairing of Water supply system
4. Sericulture a Muga Sector
Som plantation
Som nursery
Grants in aid b Eri sector
Kesseru plantation
Grants in aid
Nursery c Mulbbery sector
Plantation
Nursery
Grant in aid
Awareness camp (Eri)
5. Handloom & Textile
1 Training 1month
2 Loomdistribution
3 Yarn distribution
6. Dist Industry & Commerce Centre
Food park (a centre for various food processing units)
Training cum common facility service centre
Cane & Bambo processing centre
7. Fishery Sector
1 Costn of new pond
a. Civil work b. Input
2 Low lying area converted to C.T.
a. Civil Works
b. Inputs
3 Creation of Rearing Tank (PT)
a. Civil works
b. . Inputs
4 Creation of Nursery pond
a. Civil works
b. Inputs
5 Devt. Of Existing Tank
a. Civil work
b. Inputs
Unit
60
1
1
2
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
1
1
1 ha lakh no.
No ha
No lakh no. ha lakh no.
No
No
20
20
200
2009-10 2010-11
1 -
1
1
1
1
35
3.5
70
42
70
3.5
14
1.4
70
140
30
30
30
2
12.5
12.5
2
2
17.5
17.5
3
3
7
7
-
-
-
-
70
3.5
14
1.4
70
140
35
3.5
70
42
30
30
30
1
2
8
8
30
30
5
5
1
15
15
4
4
2011-12
1
-
-
-
-
70
3.5
14
1.4
70
140
35
3.5
70
42
30
30
30
3
35
35
10
10
10
10
18
18
6
6
84

Sl Name of work
6 Reclamation of Rearing Tank a. a. Civil Works b. Inputs
7 Pig. Cum.Fish Culture a. Civil Works b. Inputs
8 Paddy cum. Fish Culture a. Civil Works b. Inputs c. d.
9 Capacity Building a. Training of beneficiaries b. Exposure visit for farmer out side
State
Block Level Awareness camp on
Seed credit fication & seed policy
Training of Farmers (Non-
Beneficiary) e. Training of Officers on seed certification
10 Project Monitoring Adm. Cost:- a. Office expenses: b. T.A. & D.A. Officer & Staff: c. P.O.L. /Hiring & Vehicle
Unit
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Nos
Nos
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Nos
Nos
Nos
LS
LS
LS
2009-10 2010-11
7 10
7
2
10
4
2
2
2
100
5
4
2
2
150
7
7
50
4
7
100
4
Sl Name of work Unit 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
1. Horticulture
2011-12
10
10
6
6
4
4
200
10
7
150
4
Total
1 Cole crop demo 1Ha 6.8 6.8 6.8 20.4
2 Onion demo .13Ha 3.6 3.6 3.6 10.8
3 Garlic demo .13Ha 4.8 4.8 4.8 14.4
4 Brinjal demo 1Ha 2.4 2.4 2.4 7.2
5 Tomato demo 1Ha 2.55 2.55 2.55 7.65
6 Chilli demo 1Ha 2.7 2.7 2.7 8.1
7 Squash demo Ha 25.6 25.6 25.6 76.8
8 Ginger demo Ha 7.0 7.0 7.0 21
9 Betel vine demo Ha 2.0 2.0 2.0 6
10 Flower demo .13Ha 6.0 6.0 6.0 18
11 Distribution of Assam lemon/
Orange layer /graft with fertilizer kit
12 Distribution of Coconut seedling with fertilizer kit
13 Assistance to small nursery
20N os
6Nos
0.5Ha
1.6
5.0
30.0
1.6
5.0
30.0
1.6
5.0
30.0
4.8
15
90
14 Poly green house 000sft 50.0 50.0 50.0 150
15 Organic farming on vegetables Ha 4.0 4.0 4.0 12
85

Sl Name of work
16 Vermicompost demonstration
17 Vermicompost fert kit distribution
18 Bari Development-distribution fruit plant-graft/layers
2. Animal Husbandry
1 Goatery
2 Piggery
3 Poultry
4 Duckery
Dairy Development
Cattle Induction
Capacity building of farmers
Establishment of Milk collection unit
Upgradation of Chilling Plant,
Lahowal
Milk pickup van
Repairing of ADDO Office
Repairing of Water supply system
3. Sericulture a Muga Sector
Som plantation
Som nursery
Grants in aid b Eri sector
Kesseru plantation
Grants in aid
Nursery c Mulbbery sector
Plantation
Nursery
Grant in aid
Awareness camp (Eri)
4.Handloom & Textile
1 Training 1month
2 Loomdistribution
3 Yarn distribution
5. Dist Industry & Commerce centre
1 Food park (a centre for various food processing units)
2 Training cum common facility service centre
3 Cane & Bambo processing centre
6.Fishery Sector
1 Costn of new pond
a. Civil work b. Input
2 Low lying area converted to C.T.
Unit
18sft
6Kg
No
1
1
2
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
10:2
10:2
200
100
40
60
1
1
1 ha lakh no.
No ha
No lakh no. ha lakh no.
No
No
20
20
200
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
40.0 40.0 40.0
1.4 1.4 1.4
3.5
140
140
87.5
17.5
24.8
8.4
3.78
30
5
5
3
70
7
4.9
42
4.9
7
14
2.8
4.9
5.6
30
30
30
12
43.75
10
3.5
140
140
87.5
17.5
24.8
8.4
7.56
-
30
12
18
52.5
12
3.5
140
140
87.5
17.5
24.8
8.4
3.78
-
18
63
14.4
70
7
4.9
42
4.9
7
14
2.8
-
-
-
4.9
5.6
30
30
30
70
7
4.9
42
4.9
7
14
2.8
-
-
-
4.9
5.6
30
30
30
30
210
21
14.7
0
126
14.7
21
0
42
8.4
5
5
3
14.7
16.8
90
90
90
30
24
36
159.25
36.4
0
Total
120
4.2
10.5
420
420
262.5
52.5
74.4
25.2
15.12
86

Sl Name of work
a. Civil Works
b. Inputs
3 Creation of Rearing Tank (PT)
a. Civil works
b. . Inputs
4 Creation of Nursery pond
a. Civil works
b. Inputs
5 Devt. Of Existing Tank
a. Civil work
b. Inputs
6 Reclamation of Rearing Tank a. a. Civil Works b. Inputs
7 Pig. Cum.Fish Culture a. Civil Works b. Inputs
8 Paddy cum. Fish Culture a. Civil Works b. Inputs c. d. e.
9 Capacity Building a. Training of beneficiaries b. Exposure visit for farmer out side
State
Block Level Awareness camp on
Seed credit fication & seed policy
Training of Farmers (Non-
Beneficiary)
Training of Officers on seed certification
10 Project Monitoring Adm. Cost:- a. Office expenses: b. T.A. & D.A. Officer & Staff: c. P.O.L. /Hiring & Vehicle
Unit
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Nos
Nos
Nos
Nos
Nos
LS
LS
LS
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
6 12 18
1.6
43.75
12.95
3.2
75
22.2
4.8
87.5
25.9
6.75
2.01
4.2
5.6
4.2
5.18
2
3.26
0.9
1.1
0.1
11.25
3.35
4.8
6.4
6
7.4
4
6.52
0.9
1.1
0.15
6
9.78
1.8
2.2
0.2
22.6
6.7
6
8
6
7.4
0.75 1.05 1.5
0.42 0.42 0.42
0.6
0.1
0.5
1
0.5
1.2
0.1
0.8
1.2
0.8
1.8
0.1
1
1.5
1
Total
36
9.6
0
206.25
61.05
0
40.6
12.06
0
15
20
0
16.2
19.98
0
12
19.56
0
3.6
4.4
0
0.45
3.3
1.26
3.6
0.3
2.3
3.7
2.3
87

DISTRICT PLAN: ( Rs in lakh)
1. Agriculture
Total Cereal
Oilseed
Pulses
Potato demo
IPM
INM
Soil Testing
Input
GS
2009-10
BS Total GS
38.14 0 38.14 38.14
18
13.9
0
0
18
13.9
18
13.9
27.47 0 27.47 27.47
4.5
3.77
0
0
4.5
3.77
2.8 0.72 3.52
5 4 9
Farm Implements 25.6 6.4
Capacity building 75 0
Value addition
Infrastructure
Development
Others
Agril Sub total
2. Horticulture
Vegetable total
Spice crop
12
18.21
12
0
0
0
32
75
12
18.21
12
256.39 11.12 267.51
37.35
18.1
0
0
37.35
18.1
4.5
3.77
2.8
5
19.6
75
12
0
12
232.18
37.35
18.1
2010-11
BS Total GS
0
0
38.14
18
38.14
18
0
0
0
0
0.72
4
4.9
0
0
0
0
0
0
13.9
27.47
4.5
3.77
3.52
9
24.5
75
12
0
12
9.62 241.8
37.35
18.1
13.9
27.47
4.5
3.77
2.8
5
19.6
75
12
0
12
232.18
37.35
18.1
2011-12
BS
0
Total GS
38.14 114.42
Grand total
BS Total
0 114.42
0
0
0
0
0
0.72
4
4.9
0
0
0
0
0
0
18
13.9
27.47
4.5
3.52
9
24.5
75
12
0
12
9.62 241.8
37.35
18.1
54
41.7
82.41
13.5
3.77 11.31
8.4
15
64.8
225
36
18.21
36
720.75
112.05
54.3
0
0
0
0
0
2.16
12
16.2
0
0
0
0
30.36
0
0
54
41.7
82.41
13.5
11.31
10.56
27
81
225
36
18.21
36
751.11
112.05
54.3
0
0
0
6
18
19.8
Betel vine
Floriculture
2
6
Planting material 6.6
Nursery development 30
Green house dev
Organic cultivation
40
37.4
Bari Development 3.5
0
0
0
10
2
6
6.6
30
50
2
6
6.6
30
40
0
0
0
10
2
6
6.6
30
50
2
6
6.6
30
40
0
0
0
10
2
6
6.6
30
50
6
18
19.8
90
120
8
0
45.4 37.4
3.5 3.5
8
0
45.4 37.4
3.5 3.5
8
0
45.4 112.2
3.5 10.5
Horti Sub Total 180.95 18 198.95 180.95 18 198.95 180.95 18 198.95 542.85
3. Agril Research
Tech testing and
Capacity building 11.9
Infrastructure support 15
0
0
11.9
15
11.9
5
0
0
11.9
5
11.9
2
0
0
11.9
2
0
35.7
5
Others
Sub Toal
1.5
28.4
0
0
1.5 1.5
28.4 18.4
0
0
4. Agril Engg.
Construction & renovation of building at HQ
Cold storage
Market infrastructure
243
180
0
0
243
180
14
0
0
0
Seed storage
Food processing
160
41
30
0
0
0
160
41
30
40
24
20
0
0
0
Threshing floor 6 0 6 4 0
Land development 265.5 29.5 295 256.5 28.5
Irrigation and 171 19 190 157.5 17.5
1.5 1.5
18.4 15.4
14
0
40
24
20
4
285
14
0
40
24
20
4
189
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
21
1.5
15.4
14
0
40
24
20
4
210
175 148.5 16.5 165
4.5
62.2
271
180
240
89
70
14
711
477
0
30
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
79
53
24
0
54
0
0
0
0
90
150
136.2
10.5
596.85
0
35.7
5
4.5
62.2
271
180
240
89
70
14
790
530
88

drainage
Water harvest structure
Vermi compost
Minor Irrigation
Irrigation
Sprinkler
Drip
81 9
25.2 2.8
90
28
549 137 685
20
3.2
5
0.8
25
4
81
25.2
549
20
3.2
9
2.8
137
5
0.8
90
28
685
25
4
81
25.2
549
20
3.2
9
2.8
137
5
0.8
90
28
685
25
4
243
75.6
0
1647
60
9.6
27
8.4
0
411
15
2.4
270
84
0
2055
75
12
Green house
Capacity building
Agril
Mechanization
Agril. Engg Sub total
80
8
828
20
0
207
100
8
1035
80
8
828
20
0
207
100
8
1035
80
8
828
20
0
207
100
8
1035
240
24
2484
60
0
621
300
24
3105
2690.9 430.1 3120 2110.4 427.6 2537 2033.9 419.1 2452 6835.2 1276.8 8109
5. Animal husbandry and Dairy
Goatery
Piggery
Poultry and
Duckery
Cattle
Dairy
112
112
84
28
28
21
22.32 2.48
168 42
140
140
105
24.8
210
112
112
84
22.32
28
28
21
2.48
168 42
140
140
105
24.8
210
112
112
84
22.32
28
28
21
2.48
168 42
140
140
105
24.8
210
336
336
252
66.96
504
84
84
63
420
420
315
7.44 74.4
126 630
Health Camp 37.8 0 37.8 37.8 0
Fodder cultivation 11.76 2.94 14.7 11.76 2.94
Exposure visit
Infrastructure
35 0
35
35
38.78 0 38.78 7.56
0
0
37.8 37.8 0
14.7 11.76 2.94
35
35
7.56 3.78
0
0
37.8
14.7
113.4
35.28
35 105
3.78 50.12
0
7.44
113.4
44.1
0 105
0 50.12
Sloughter House 3.55
Repairing and renovation 8
Capacity building 23.4
Adm. expndtr
Animal husbandry
3
0
0
0
3.55
8
23.4
0
0
0
23.4
3
0
0
0
3
0
0
23.4
0
0
0
23.4
3
0
0
0
3
0
0
23.4
0
3.55
8
70.2
3
0
0
0
9
3.55
8
70.2
0 and Dairy Sub toal 659.61 124.42 781.03 616.84 127.42 738.26 613.06 127.42 734.48 1883.51 380.88 2253.77
6. Sericulture
Area expansion
Planting mateial distribution
Grant in aids
Rearing
113.4
34.16
12.6
30.744
126
3.416
113.4
34.16
12.6
30.744
126
3.416
113.4
34.16
Reeling Machine 73.36 66.024 7.336 73.36 66.024 7.336 73.36
Capacity building 5.6 0 5.6 5.6 0 5.6 5.6
12.6
0
462
350
126
34.16
73.36
5.6
340.2
102.48
220.08
16.8
37.8
15.12 1.68 16.8 15.12 1.68 16.8 15.12 1.68 16.8 45.36 5.04
14.7 0 14.7 14.7 0 14.7 14.7 0 14.7 44.1 0
34.16
73.36
0
378
50.4
44.1
30.74
66.024
16.8
Exposure visit
Sericulture Sub total
16.8 16.8
262.37 25.05
287.42
7. Handloom & Textile
Capacity building 95.4 0 95.4
16.8
95.4
16.8
262.37 25.05
0
287.42
95.4
16.8
95.4
16.8
262.37 25.05
0
50.4
287.42
787.11 75.15
95.4 286.2 0
50.4
862.26
286.2
Input distribution 130.8 7.2 138 130.8 7.2 138 130.8 7.2 138 392.4 21.6
H& Text Sub total 226.2 7.2 233.4 226.2 7.2 233.4 226.2 7.2 233.4 678.6 21.6
8. DICC
414
700.2
89

Food Processing unit
Cane and Bamboo unit
0
0
0
0
Capacity building 10.8 1.2
DICC sub total 10.8 1.2
0
0
12
12
27
16.2
10.8
54
3
1.8
1.2
6
30
18
12
60
0
0
16.2
16.2
0
0
1.8
1.8
0
0
18
18
27
16.2
37.8
81
3
1.8
4.2
9
30
18
42
90
9. Fisheries
Creation and renovation of Pond 54.325 54.325 108.65 80.77 80.77 161.55 101.55 101.55 203.1 236.645 236.645 473.3
Input distribution 33.6 3.74 37.34 49.09 5.455 54.55 60.48 6.72 67.2 143.17 15.915 159.09
Pig cum fish 3.93 1.326 5.26 7.868 2.65 10.52 11.802 3.97 15.78 23.6 7.946 31.56
Rice cum fish 1.44 0.56
Capacity building 1.97 0
Others 2 0
2
1.97
2
1.44
2.92
2.8
0.56
0
0
2
2.92
2.8
2.88
4.02
3.5
1.12
0
0
4
4.02
3.5
5.76
8.91
8.3
2.24
0
0
8
8.91
8.3
Fisheries sub total 97.265 59.951 157.22 144.888 89.435 234.34 184.232 113.36 297.6
Grand total
426.39 262.75 689.16
(Rs. in Lakh)
Sectors 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Grand Total
GS BS Total GS BS Total GS BS Total GS BS
1. Agriculture 256.4 11.1 267.5 232.2 9.5 241.7 232.2 9.6 241.8 720.8 30.4
Total
751.1
2. Horticulture 181.0 18.0 199.0 181.0 18.0 199.0 181.0 18.0 199.0 542.9 54.0
3. Agril
Research 18.4 0.0 18.4 13.4 0.0 13.4 13.4 0.0 13.4 45.2 0.0
596.9
45.2
4. Agril Engg
4. A
&water management 542.7 60.3
0.0
603.0 520.2 57.8
0.0
578.0 443.7 49.3
0.0
493.0
0.0
1506.
6
0.0
Infrastructure 660.0 0.0 660.0 102.0 0.0 102.0 102.0 0.0 102.0 864.0 0.0
4. B Land
167.4
0.0
864.0
1674.0
4 .C Minor
Irrigation
661.2 160.8
4. D. Agril
Mechanization 828.0 207.0
5 . Animal
Husbandy and
Dairy
6. Handloom
& Textile
385.5
226.2
79.5
7.2
822.0
1035.
0
465.0
233.4
661.2
828.0
346.3
226.2
160.8
207.0
79.5
7.2
822.0
1035.
0
425.8
233.4
661.2
828.0
342.5
226.2
160.8
207.0
79.5
7.2
822.0
1035.
0
422.0
233.4
1983.
6
2484.
0
1074.
3
678.6
482.4
621.0
238.4
21.6
2466.0
3105.0
1312.7
700.2
7. Sericulture 148.8 14.3 163.1 148.8 14.3 163.1 148.8 14.3 163.1 446.5 42.8
8. DICC 10.8 1.2 12.0 54.0 6.0 60.0 16.2 1.8 18.0 81.0 9.0
9. Fisheries 97.3 60.0 157.2 144.9 89.4 234.3 184.2 113.4 297.6 426.4 262.7
4413.
93
674.9
7 5088.9
3847.
26
705.2
7
4552.
53
3765.
48
716.5
7
4482.
05
12026.
7
2096
.8 Grand Total
489.3
90.0
689.1
14123.
5
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Crop
Horti
Organic cultivation
Animal Husbandry and dairying
Agril research
Capacity building
Input distribution
Agril Mechanization
Irrigation
Soil and water management
Infrastructure Development
IFS
PH and Value addition
Green house
Area expansion
Others
Figure8.1 Pictorial presentation of share of different components to the District plan
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Monitoring and evaluation mechanism
The CDAP will be implemented in consultation with the district authority by the Zila
Panchayat. The planning and agriculture department of the state govt. shall be the apex body to oversee the process of implementation
The fund released mechanism for CDAP will involve yearly allocation and released on the basis of the achievements across different sectors. The fund utilized at the district shall be presented to a meting of DAPU and the next installment will be asked from he state govt. In general, the schemes implemented in different sectors in GP level, will be monitored and evaluated by the concerned officials of the Anchalik Panchayat and also of the District level.
The DAPU committee members will also evaluate the implementation procedure of the CDAP
Once the CDAP is approved and taken for implementation it will be necessary to closely monitor the progress. For this, quarterly review of the physical and financial progress made is necessary at all level. The discussion should be made public for every one to know the progress made against the plan.
Social Audit : (as per manual of CDAP, Planning commission, Govt. of India)
Institutionalizing a system of social audit is essential for improving local service delivery. An effective system of social audit will have to be based on two precepts, first, that service standards are made public through citizens’ charters and second, that periodic suo moto disclosure is made on attainment of service delivery standards by Panchayats. Social audit processes are also important to ensure effectiveness. Some do’s and don’ts in this regard are suggested below:
• Social audit ought not to be individually prescribed for each scheme implemented by
Panchayats. A multiplicity of social audits separately prescribed for each scheme undermines the importance of the process.
• Adequate publicity will need to be given for social audit. It may be a good idea to provide nodal officers to assist Panchayats in the proper conduct of social audit. However, care must be taken to ensure that such support does not give the impression that the
Panchayat can sidestep its own accountability.
• Social audit “action taken reports” have to be time bound and placed in the public domain. It is a good idea to precede a social audit with the action taken on the previous social audit.
• Opportunity has to be given to people to inspect the records of the
Panchayat,particularly their documentation on property lists, tax assessments and tax collected, measurement books and muster rolls.
• It would be a good idea for a higher level of Panchayat, such as the intermediate panchayat, to provide details of the comparative performance of all Panchayats falling within its jurisdiction, so that people can get an idea of where their Panchayat stands in respect of each service delivered.
A system of social audit at the intermediate and district Panchayat levels is also required.
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The Technical Support Institution (TSI) i.e. Assam Agricultural University shall established a proper procedure for monitoring and evaluation of CDAP report and implementation across the district. DAPU in consultation with TSI can authorized one of more institution to get monitoring and evaluation concurrently. This report will be discussed in the month of February every year so that correction can be incorporated during the succeeding year.
CDAP is planned document stemming out of the grass root and therefore the role of the stakeholders, citizens and elected bodies is most crucial. The Gram Sabha and Zila Panchayat are expected to participate fully in designing, monitoring, and implementation of the developmental initiative provided in the CDAP.
In general, the schemes implemented in different sectors in GP level, will be monitored and evaluated by the concerned officials of the Anchalik Panchayat and also of the District level.
The DAPU committee members will also evaluate the implementation procedure of the CDAP.
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