National Food Security Mission and Pulses Production

Poornima Varma ()
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Poornima Varma: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Chapter 4 in Pulses for Food and Nutritional Security of India, 2022, pp 45-53 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As part of the eleventh five-year plan, the Government of India launched the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in 2007–2008 with a major objective of boosting the food production to deal with the concerns of food insecurity. The programme targeted an increase in production of rice, wheat and pulses by 10, 8 and 2 million tonnes respectively by the end of the 11th five-year plan. The scheme was initially launched in 482 districts of 19 states. Out of which 144 districts in 16 states were under the rice scheme and 142 districts in 9 states under the wheat scheme and 468 districts in 16 states under the pulses scheme. The new targets were set in the twelfth five-year plan with an objective of distribution of technologies and better farm management practices guidelines. The scheme continued during the twelfth five-year plan with a new set of targets. The focus of all these schemes was the improvement of yield by bridging the gap between actual yield and potential yield.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-3185-7_4

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