- Integrated Cereal Development Programme in Wheat based cropping systems areas (ICDP-Wheat)
- Integrated Cereals Development Programme in Rice based cropping systems areas (ICDP-Rice)
- Integrated Cereal Development Programme on Coarse Cereals Based Cropping Systems Areas (ICDP-Coarse Cereals),
- Sustainable Development of Sugarcane Based Cropping System (SUBACS) and
- Special Jute Development Programme (SJDP) implemented during Ninth plan has since been subsumed under Macro Management of Agriculture Scheme w.e.f. October 2000 to give more flexibility to the State Governments. Assistance is provided to the States for implementation of these Programmes based on the Work Plans prepared by them according to regional needs.
The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Intensive Cotton Development Programme (ICDP) now modified as a Mini-Mission_II of the Technology Mission on Cotton.
Mission on Cotton, is continuing during 2006-07. The scheme is being implemented in 13 States. The aim of the scheme is to increase the production and productivity of cotton. The scheme provides assistance for extension and development activities.
As a new initiative, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme – On Farm Water Management for encouraging crop production in Eastern India was launched in March 2002. The objective of the scheme was to increase the production and productivity of food grains through focus on exploitation of ground/surface water and its efficient utilisation. The scheme helps in enhancing the income of the farmers and diversifying agriculture production in eastern India. The Scheme was in operation in all districts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Manipur, Mizoram, Orissa, nine districts of West Bengal and 35 districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
The main components of the scheme were:
- Assistance for installation of shallow tube wells with pump sets
- Assistance for electric/diesel pump sets
- Assistance for community lift irrigation points and
- Assistance for dug wells in the plateau region.
The scheme was being implemented as credit linked back-ended subsidy basis through NABARD in coordination with the State Governments. The funding pattern of the scheme was 20:30:50 basis, i.e., 20 per cent contributed by the beneficiaries, 30 per cent subsidy from Government of India and 50 per cent as bank loan. The scheme has since been discontinued from 2006-07.
