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20/09/22 22:09 PM IST

PM-PRANAM scheme

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  • The Centre is introducing the PM-PRANAM scheme to encourage states to cut down on the use of fertilisers and promote healthy alternatives.
Features of the scheme 
  • The Centre will  introduce its Pradhan Mantri-Promotion of Alternate Nutrients for Agriculture Management Yojana (PM-PRANAM) to encourage states to cut down on their use of fertilisers.
  • The government under the proposed scheme will reduce the subsidy on chemical fertilisers which is expected to increase to Rs 2.25 lakh crore in 2022-2023 – a 39 per cent hike compared to the previous year’s Rs 1.62 lakh crore.
  • The Centre will make the determination by comparing a state’s use of chemical fertilisers in a given year to its average usage in the past three years.
  • The scheme would be financed by the ‘savings of existing fertiliser subsidy’ and that 50 per cent savings would be passed on to states that save money and that 70 per cent of the grant under the scheme would be used to create assets related to using alternate fertilisers and their production at village, block and district levels.
  • The rest 30 per cent grant would be used to aid farmers, panchayats, farmer producer organisations and self-help groups involved in reducing fertiliser use and generating awareness,.
  • Under the scheme, the states with lesser utilisation of chemical fertilisers in a particular year as compared to the average quantity in the last three years would be incentivised.
Why this scheme? 
  • Because of the 21 per cent increase in the need for four fertilisers.
  • The use of Urea, Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP), Muriate of potash (MOP), and Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium )NPK), has increased from 528.86 lakh metric tonnes in 2017-18 to 640.27 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) in 2021-22.
  • The Centre is thus intending to introduce this scheme to promote the balanced use of fertilisers or alternative fertilisers. 
Source- Indian Express 

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