President Pranab Mukherjee on presented Krishi Karman award to Bihar for a significant production of rice and paddy in 2011-12. Agriculture minister Narendra Singh received the award, consisting of a trophy, a citation and a cash of Rs1 crore, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
| ‘Krishi Karman’ Awards to be given to Ten States for best Performance in Food Grain Production States Rewarded for Production, Programme Implementation and Innovation |
| Ten
States have been selected for the newly instituted ‘Krishi Karman’
awards for best performance towards raising production of food grains.
Three awards are being given for total food grain production and four awards for production of rice, wheat, coarse cereals and pulses – the crops that constitute the food grain basket. Krishi Karman awards are the first-ever awards being given to States for their effort and contribution towards raising the country’s food grain production. Punjab and Uttar Pradesh are the joint winners of the Krishi Karman award in the category of States with overall food grain production of more than 10 million tonnes recorded in the last five years. Assam and Orissa get the award in the category of States with overall food grain production of between one and 10 million tonnes. Tripura is the sole winner in the category of States with overall food grain production of less than one million tonnes. In the second set of four awards, being given for individual crops and crop groups, the award for rice goes to Chhattisgarh, wheat to Haryana, pulses to Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and coarse cereals to Karnataka. Each award winning State gets a trophy, a citation and cash award. The cash award (for each State) is Rs. 2 crore for total food grain production and Rs. 1 crore for each of the four crops included in food grains. A selection committee headed by Secretary (Agriculture and Cooperation) assessed the performance of States against objective criteria that took into account production outcomes, implementation of crop production programs and innovative approaches adopted for effective service delivery. Initial screening for the selection of best performing States was done based on the 3rd advance production estimates and the reported performance of the States against the set parameters. The 17 shortlisted States made detailed presentations before the Selection Committee and finally ten States were selected for the awards. The awards will be given away by the Prime Minister later this month. |
The President also presented award to a farmer, Sumant Kumar, from
Darveshpura village under Katrisarai block in Nalanda district for
creating a world record in production of 224 quintal paddy per hectare
through Systematic Rice Intensification (SRI) method.
It’s a green revolution of a different sort for Bihar. A farmer has
set the world record in paddy cultivation over a hectare, using the
indigenous system of roots intensification (SRI). The previous record
was China’s.
Sumant Kumar of Darveshpura village under Katrisarai block of
Nalanda district yielded 224 quintal paddy per hectare beating the world
record of Yuan Longping of China with 190 quintals of paddy produce per
hectare.
Kumar achieved the feat through the widely-acclaimed SRI method, which was introduced in the district in 2008.
To check Sumant’s claim, State Agriculture Director Arvind Singh along with State in-charge of national food security mission Krishna Murari, district agriculture officer Sudama Mahto and a team of agriculture experts, visited Darveshpura recently and found the paddy yield true.
Earlier in China, leading agricultural scientist, Yuan Longping, widely known as “Father of Hybrid Rice” cultivated a new type of hybrid rice DH2525 and produced 190 quintals of paddy in a hectare. The yield exceeded the goal China had set itself in 2004 of 13.5 tonnes.
Meanwhile, excited with the new world record by a farmer in his district, the district agriculture officer said other farmers too have started switching over to the new scientific SRI method of paddy cultivation. “Over 25,000 farmers of the district have changed their method of paddy cultivation to SRI method and getting proper return on their investment,” said Mahto.
Other farmers of the district like Mahendra Prasad and Naresh Singh too are working hard to write history.
Kumar achieved the feat through the widely-acclaimed SRI method, which was introduced in the district in 2008.
To check Sumant’s claim, State Agriculture Director Arvind Singh along with State in-charge of national food security mission Krishna Murari, district agriculture officer Sudama Mahto and a team of agriculture experts, visited Darveshpura recently and found the paddy yield true.
Earlier in China, leading agricultural scientist, Yuan Longping, widely known as “Father of Hybrid Rice” cultivated a new type of hybrid rice DH2525 and produced 190 quintals of paddy in a hectare. The yield exceeded the goal China had set itself in 2004 of 13.5 tonnes.
Meanwhile, excited with the new world record by a farmer in his district, the district agriculture officer said other farmers too have started switching over to the new scientific SRI method of paddy cultivation. “Over 25,000 farmers of the district have changed their method of paddy cultivation to SRI method and getting proper return on their investment,” said Mahto.
Other farmers of the district like Mahendra Prasad and Naresh Singh too are working hard to write history.
The President also gave award to Shanti Devi of Naran village in Nokha
block of Rohtas district for creating a record in production of a
certain variety of paddy named MPU-7029. According to deputy director of
agriculture department
A C Jain, scientists had predicted production of 55 quintal per hectare
of MTU-7029. But Shanti Devi had grown 95 quintal per hectare paddy of
this variety through SRI method in financial year 2011-12, he added.
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