Introduction
Agroforestry is known to have the potential to mitigate the climate change effects through microclimate moderation, conservation of natural resources and creation of an additional source of livelihood and income opportunities. In order to make agriculture less vulnerable to climatic aberrations, the Government of India formulated the National Agroforestry Policy in 2014.The policy recommends setting up a Mission or Board with an initial corpus of Rs 4000-5000 crore annually to address the development of agroforestry sector in an organized manner. As a follow-up to the policy, the Sub-Mission on agroforestry (SMAF) under National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) was launched in 2016-17 to encourage and expand tree plantation on farmland, with the motto of “Har Med Par Ped”, along with crops/ cropping system. Agro-forestry enhances productivity, soil fertility improvement, soil conservation, nutrient cycling, microclimate improvement etc.
2. Objectives
- To raise Quality Planting Materials and converge with on-going schemes for plantation of trees in suitable unculturable waste land as well as arable land.
- To encourage and expand tree plantation in a complementary and integrated manner with crops.
- To improve productivity, additional income generation and improve livelihood of rural households, especially the small farmers.
- To ensure the availability of Quality Planting Materials (QPM) like seeds, seedlings, clones, hybrids, improved varieties, etc. overall goal to improve the quality of the plants available to farmers and growers.
- To provide Research & Development (R&D), extension and capacity-building support to the agroforestry sector.
| Sl. No | Name of Interventions | Unit Cost (upper limit) in Lakh | Remarks |
| 1 | Establishment of new Nurseries | Rs. 50.00 | 100% assistance to Govt. agencies (Govt. land) 50% assistance to private agencies |
| a | Hi-tech (2 Ha.) | Rs. 16.00 | |
| b | Big (1 Ha.) | Rs. 10.00 | |
| c | Small (0.5 Ha.) | ||
| 2 | Raising of Saplings in the existing Nursery | Up to Rs. 5.00 lakh/ Nursery | |
| 3 | Establishment of Tissue Culture unit | ||
| a | Strengthening of existing tissue culture unit | Up to Rs. 20.00 lakhs | |
| b | Establishment of new tissue culture unit | Up to Rs.200.00 Lakhs | |
3. Key interventions:
- Raising of Shade seedlings to fulfil the requirement of shade plantations under coffee mission for six coffee growing districts like Koraput, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Gajapati, Kalahandi and Keonjhar.
- Promote the setting up of new small, medium and Hi-Tech Nurseries for producing QPM (Quality planting Materials) like seeds, seedlings, clones and improved varieties to meet the requirement of farmers.
4. Financial Achievement of Previous year:
(Figure in Lakh)
| Year | Fund Received from Govt. of India (CS) | Fund received as matching share from Govt. of Odisha (SS) | Total Sanction Amount Sanction Amount (CS+SS) | Expenditure Incurred |
| 2023-24 | 149.00 | 99.33 | 248.33 | 248.33 |
| 2024-25 | 450.00 | 300.00 | 750.00 | 750.00 |
