Organic Farming Statistics
• Total area under organic certification in India is- 1.5 million ha
• Total Organic production in India- 1.35 Millin tones
• Total number of organic producers in India- 8.35 lakh
• The state with largest area under organic certification is- Madhya Pradesh> Himachal Pradesh> Rajasthan
• India’s First organic state- Sikkim (Declared on Jan 18,2016); Second organic state Uttarakhand
• The country with largest area under organic farming – Australia (27.15 Mha)
• The country with highest number of organic producers in the world – India (More than 30 per cent of world’s organic producers are in India)
• India’s rank in terms of organically cultivated area is- 9th
• Govt. of India setting up of National Organic Farming Research Institute (NOFRI) in- Sikkim
• India’s First Organic farming University going to be set up in- Vadodara, Gujarath
• Largest exported organic product in India- Oilseeds (50%)> Processed food products>Cereals & millets> Tea>Pulses>Spices
KVK Information:
➢ 10th National Conference of KVK held on- March 16-17,2018 , New Delhi (theme: Technologies for doubling farmers income)
➢ **Total number of KVKs at present is- 706 (as of May,2019)
➢ KVKs are under the administration control of- DDG of Agricultural extension
➢ Present DDG of Agricultural Extension- AK Singh
➢ For effective functioning and monitoring of KVKs, KVKs are divided into- 11 ATARI Zones
➢ Acronym of ATARI – Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes
(ATARIs formerly called as Zonal Project Directorates)
➢ Highest number of KVKs are in- Uttar Pradesh
➢ Zone with highest number of KVKs is- Zone VIII
➢ KVKs 100% fully funded by- ICAR
➢ Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Krishi Vigyan Puraskar (Best KVK) award given to- KVK, Kanker (Chattisgarh)
Varieties released by ICAR; Biofortified and other Imp.Varieties
➢ ** Climate– Smart developed by NRRI, Cuttack – CR Dhan 801 & CR Dhan 802 (which are tolerant to both submergence and drought and few biotic stresses to face the challenges of climate change. )
➢ ** Protein rich rice varieties – CR Dhan 310 & CR Dhan 311
➢ Pigeon pea -PUSA Arhar 16 (determinate, extra early maturity, 120 days)
➢ Sugarcane –C0-0238 (Wonder variety of sugarcane)
➢ BT cotton: F1861, PAU Bt 1 and RS2013 for cultivation in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan
➢ Quality Protein Maize (QPM) -PUSA Breakfast Cereal
➢ World’s first cytoplasmic male sterility based pigeon pea hybrid-GTH
➢ Low neuro toxin varieties of grass pea-rattan, nirmal, prateek
➢ Marigold-PusaBahar
➢ Spineless variety of Safflower– NARI-6
➢ First ever short duration Moong (< 60 days)-Virat (IPM 205-7)
➢ BLB of rice disease resistant variety-PUSA 1592, Punjab Basmati-3
➢ Blast disease resistant rice variety-PUSA 109
➢ Nematode resistant variety of papaya– Pusa Majesty
➢ Day neutral and spineless variety of Okra– Pusa Sawani
➢ Black Variety of Carrot– Pusa Asita
➢ World earliest maturity variety of cotton genotype was identified by CICR scientist (2017) – variety name: Yugank
❖ Swarna Vaideh– first ever variety of Makhana was developed and released by ICAR.
❖ Virat– Early maturing Summer Mungbean
❖ Pusa Arhar 16– dwarf pigeon pea, Short duration (120 day redgram variety
(Miracle red gram variety)
❖ Co-0238 (Karan 4) – Wonder variety of sugar cane, released by Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Regional Centre, Karnal.
❖ Pusa rudhira is an improved variety of-Carrot
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