1. Introduction

Sustaining agricultural productivity depends on quality and availability of natural resources like soil and water. Agricultural growth can be sustained by promoting conservation and sustainable use of these scarce natural resources through appropriate location specific measures. Indian agriculture remains predominantly rainfed covering about 50% of the country’s net sown area. Thus, conservation of natural resources in conjunction with development of rainfed agriculture holds the key to meet burgeoning demands for food grain in the country. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has been launched for enhancing agricultural productivity especially in climatically vulnerable rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, rain water management its use efficiency, soil health management and augmenting resource conservation.

Rainfed Area Development (RAD) aims at promoting sustainable agriculture production through adaptation of agricultural climatic zone wise Integrated Farming System (IFS).

2. Objectives

a. To undertake location specific and landscape-based approach to dry-land areas to ensure natural resources conservation and sustainable use, strengthening of agriculture production systems and livelihood development through integration/convergence of schemes in an area based approach.

b. To make agriculture more productive, sustainable, remunerative and climate resilient by promoting location specific Integrated/Composite Farming Systems.

c. To conserve natural resources through appropriate soil and moisture conservation measures.

d. To develop capacity of farmers and stakeholders in conjunction with other ongoing Missions such as National Food and Nutrition Security Mission, National Initiative for Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) etc., in the domain of climate change adaptation measures.

e. Support to each farming family under RAD component will be restricted to financial assistance of Rs. 30,000/-. The amount of assistance shall be uniform for all farmers irrespective of the size of their land holding. Credit support, if required, may be arranged to meet the balance

Area of operation: It is operational in all 30 districts of Odisha.

3. Financial Achievement of Previous year:

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