National Mission For Sustainable Agriculture
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has been created for enhancing agricultural productivity, especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management, and synergizing resource conservation.
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has been created for enhancing agricultural productivity, especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management, and synergizing resource conservation.
Objectives of NMSA
- To make agriculture more productive, sustainable, remunerative, and climate-resilient by promoting location-specific Integrated/Composite Farming Systems.
- To conserve natural resources through appropriate soil and moisture conservation measures.
- To adopt comprehensive soil health management practices based on soil fertility maps, soil test-based application of macro & micronutrients, judicious use of fertilizers, etc.
- To optimize utilization of water resources through efficient water management to expand coverage for achieving ‘more crop per drop".
- To develop the capacity of farmers & stakeholders, in conjunction with other ongoing Missions e.g. National Mission on Agriculture Extension & Technology, National Food Security Mission, National Initiative for Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), etc., in the domain of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures.
- To pilot models in select blocks for improving the productivity of rainfed farming by mainstreaming rainfed technologies refined through NICRA and by leveraging resources from other schemes/Missions like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), RKVY, etc.
- To establish an effective inter and intra Departmental/Ministerial coordination for accomplishing key deliverables of the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture under the aegis of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
Monitoring, Modeling, and Networking
Monitoring, Modeling, and Networking provide creation and bidirectional dissemination of climate change-related information and knowledge by way of piloting climate change adaptation/mitigation research/model projects in the domain of climate-smart sustainable management practices and integrated farming systems suitable to local agro-climatic conditions.
Comprehensive pilot blocks will be supported to illustrate a functional mechanism for the dissemination of rainfed technologies, planning, convergence, and coordination with flagship schemes/Missions like MGNREGS, IWMP, and Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), RKVY, NFSM, NHM, NMAET, etc. Such an integrated action of input and output flows across agriculture, livestock, and other production systems will harness the growth potential of the rainfed production systems, imparting sustainability to local production systems while negotiating climate change risks.
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