Agriculture

PURBA MEDINIPUR KRISHI AT A GLANCE

Office of the Deputy Director of Agriculture(Administration), Purba Medinipur

DISTRICT PROFILE

Purba Medinipur district is geographically located between 21˚ 36’ to 22˚57’ N latitude and 86˚33’ to 88˚12’ E longitude and the district is surrounded by the Bay of Bengal and Balasore District of Orissa State in its South . Paschim Medinipur in its West , Howrah district in the North & South 24 Parganas in the East .

The Important rivers i.e. Rupnarayan , Haldi , Kansabati and Keleghai water flow only during the period from June to October .The experience of flood is common phenomenon in this district .

Purba Medinipur district is mainly a land of Agriculture and more than 80% of the total population is residing in the villages and the rural economy is based on agriculture to earn their bread and butter.

This district has a land area of 4,30,140 ha. Which is 4.7% of geographical area of state where 5.58% of population of the state are living . The net cultivated area of the district i.e. 3,04,800 ha. having 58% of the land i.e. 1,79,025 ha. with irrigation facility through tidal water mainly and cropping intensity is about 170% .

The Major crops grown in this district are paddy ( Aus , Aman & Boro) , Pulses , Oilseeds , Potato , Vegetables , Betelvine , Flowers etc. .The marketing mainly depend on local market and nearby Kolkata market.

Use of Fertilizer, Improved seeds & pesticides are increasing day by day. Farmers are now habituated to use modern Farm machineries & Implements like tractor, power tiller, power thresher, solar pumpset, power sprayer, combined harvester, paddy transplanter etc.

To maintain ecological balance, the Agriculture Department is emphasizing on organic farming / sustainable farming and use of bio-fertilizers / organic manures and bio-pesticides in crop production are being given top most priority.

ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT OF THE DISTRICT

Sl No.	Name of the Block	Panchayet		Mouza	Inhabitant Village	Municipality
		Samity	Gram
Tamluk Sub-Division
1	Tamluk	1	12	118	107	1
2	Sahid Matangini	1	10	88	87	x
3	Panskura	1	14	248	247	1
4	Kolaghat	1	13	114	112	x
5	Nandakumar	1	12	100	100	x
6	Chandipur	1	10	114	114	x
7	Moyna	1	11	85	85	x
8	Mahisadal	1	11	76	75	x
9	Sutahata	1	6	138	81	x
10	Haldia	1	4	82	24	1
11	Nandigram – I	1	10	99	99	x
12	Nandigram – II	1	7	41	41	x
	Total	12	120		1172	3
Kanthi Sub-Division
13	Kanthi – I	1	8	243	225	1
14	Deshapran	1	8	168	169	x
15	Kanthi – III	1	8	166	165	x
16	Ramnagar – I	1	9	150	150	x
17	Ramnagar – II	1	8	137	137	x
18	Bhagawanpur – II	1	9	168	168	x
19	Khejuri – I	1	6	42	42	x
20	Khejuri – II	1	5	99	99	x
	Total	8	61	1173	1155	1
Egra Sub-Division1
21	Bhagawanpur – I	1	10	167	167	x
22	Egra – I	1	8	147	133	1
23	Egra – II	1	8	118	117	x
24	Patashpur – I	1	9	140	140	x
25	Patashpur – II	1	7	151	151	x
	Total	5	42	723	708	1
	Grand Total	25	223	3199	3035	5

LAND UTILIZATION STATISTICS

2009-2010 and 2010-2011

(Area in Hectare)

Sl No.	Items	2010-2011	2020-2021
1	Geographical Area	395954.85	395954.85
2	Forest	3326.26	3372.21
3	Area under Non Agricultural use	90107	92342
4	Barren and Unculturable Land	11785.67	10538.24
5	Permanent Pasture	334	212.6
6	Area under Fruit Crops, Misc. Tree crops and others.	8833.5	8965.48
7	Culturable Waste Land	3006	2803
8	Current Fallow	10333.5	8952.5
9	Net Area Cultivated	296951.17	*285382.5
10	Area Cultivated more than once	221124.83	212836.3
11	Gross cropped area	518076	509624
12	Cropping intensity	170%	*178%

Net cultivated area decreased due to fishery in agril. Land in some of the blocks(9-10 nos.)

AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE

1	Agril. Sub-Division	3 nos.
2	Agril. Block	25 nos.
3	Seed Farm	6
4	Research Station	0
5	Cold Store	1
6	Seed Production Agency	0
7	Warehouse	0

REVIEW OF THE PAST

(Area in ha.)

Crops	2015-2016	2016-2017	2017-2018	2018-2019	2019-2020
Aus	12790	12823	8715	11604	6020
Aman	206476	254604	255520	251706	248670
Boro	132085	127328	137845	138804	130195
Rabi Pulse	16624	18203	15665	16155	17890
Potato	4360	3810	3166	3760	3870
Murtard	4110	3695	2942	2475	3830
Ground Nut	15963	16834	14980	15625	15320
Vegetables	40235	35941	32634	34156	32799
Total	432643	473238	471467	474285	458594

AREA OF H.Y.V (%)

Crops	2015-2016	2016-2017	2017-2018	2018-2019	2019-2020
Aus	96.5	97.7	99.2	99.8	100
Aman	75	78	81	85	88
Boro	100	100	100	100	100

AVERAGE RAINFALL IN THE DISTRICT (IN MM.)

Month	Normal	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
January	11	9.8	0	0	0	53.5
February	27.3	51	1.3	1.2	134.4	11.7
March	39.8	22.4	84.5	1.9	39.6	34.1
April	52	5	25	69.2	75.3	81.7
May	124.9	158.1	85	125.9	74.9	385.7
June	273.1	177.3	179.5	263.3	143	205.4
July	312.1	316.2	451.3	326.7	133.8	161.5
August	359.2	377.5	307.8	260.3	368.6	396.5
September	296.3	260.1	178.6	288.9	401.7	223.9
October	123.6	174.3	203.7	146.6	247.4	154.1
November	36.2	68.1	42.9	18.4	110.4	11.7
December	7.9	0%	12.6	11.9	10.4	0
Total	1663.4	1619.8	1572.2	1514.3	1739.5	1719.8

AREA, PRODUCTIVITY & PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENT CROPS OF PURBA MEDINIPUR DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR 2017-2018

Sl No.	Crop	Area (ha.)	Productivity (Kg./ha.)	Production (MT)
1	Aus Paddy	8715	2615	22789.7
2	Aman Paddy	255520	3403	869534.56
3	Boro Paddy	137845	5673	781994.7
4	Potato	3166	23770	75255.8
5	Pulses	17735	872	15464.9
6	Oilseed	19418	2596	50409.1
7	Vegetables	32634	16200	528670.8

AREA, PRODUCTIVITY & PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENT CROPS OF PURBA MEDINIPUR DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR 2018-2019

Sl No.	Crop	Area (ha.)	Productivity (Kg./ha.)	Production (MT)
1	Aus Paddy	11604	3441	39929.36
2	Aman Paddy	251706	4282	1077805.09
3	Boro Paddy	138804	5602	777580
4	Potato	3760	22346	84020.96
5	Pulses	21641	782	16923.26
6	Oilseed	20092	2558	51395.33
7	Vegetables	34156	16545	565111.02

AREA, PRODUCTIVITY & PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENT CROPS OF PURBA MEDINIPUR DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR 2019-2020

Sl No.	Crop	Area (ha.)	Productivity (Kg./ha.)	Production (MT)
1	Aus Paddy	6020	3571	21497.42
2	Aman Paddy	248670	2852	709206.84
3	Boro Paddy	130195	5686	740288.77
4	Potato	3870	21930	84869.1
5	Pulses	21182	745	15780.59
6	Oilseed	23055	2512	57914.16
7	Vegetables	32799	16765	549875.24

DIFFERENT SCHEMES IMPLEMENTED FROM MAY’ 2011 TO TILL DATE IN PURBA MEDINIPUR DISTRICT.

Name of the Sector	Name of the Scheme	Name of the Block where the scheme is implemented	Sanctioned Amount(in lakh)	Fund utilized(in lakh)	Physical progress
	1)Farmer’s Old Age pension (FOAP)	25 blocks	3523	3487.54	5157 nos.
	2)Krishak Bandhu(Assured Income)	25 blocks		36601.1728	769914 nos.
	3)Krishak Bandhu(Death Benefit)	25 blocks		4272	2136 nos.
	4)State Disaster Relief Fund(SDRF)	25 blocks		52846.36336	2361268 nos.
Agriculture	5)Farm Mechanization	25 blocks		2463.47	24228 nos.
	6)Custom Hiring Centre(CHC)	13 blocks		410.19	37 nos.
	7)Agriculture Technology Management agency(ATMA)	25 blocks	2779.555	2532.159	DC-10560 nos.
					Training-2355 nos.
					Exposure visit-397 nos.
					FIG-242 nos.
					Farm school-275 nos.
	8)Kishan Credit Card(KCC)	25 blocks		959231.4256	585831 nos.
	9)Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojona(RKVY)	25 blocks	58.73	58.23	35000 ha
	a)Seed Treatment Campaign
	b)Infrastructure Dev. & Seed production in govt. Farms	6 nos. govt. Farms	50.86	42.84
	c)Folk & Aromatic rice Demonstration	10 no. blocks	7.655	4.095	170 ha
	10)National Food Security Mission(Rice)	25 blocks	810	800	13500 ha
	a)Cluster Demonstration i)Aman paddy
	ii) Boro paddy	22 blocks	1058.4	1000	12600
	b)Subsidy sale of Paddy seed	25 blocks	18	16	180 MT
	i)Aman paddy
	ii)Boro Paddy	22 blocks	20	19	100 MT
	c)Distribution of Micronutrients	25 blocks	180	175	36000 ha
	d) Distribution of Plant Protection Chems.	25 blocks	450	450	90000 ha
	e)Distribution of Weedicide.	25 blocks	225	223	45000 ha
	f)Farmers Training Meeting	25 blocks	31.5	31	225 nos.
	11)Targetting Rice Fallow Area(Pulse)	20 blocks	119	118	2000 ha
	a) Cluster Demonstration
	i)Lentil
	ii)Khesari	20 blocks	456	455	8000 ha
	iii)Black Gram	25 blocks	31.25	30.5	500 ha
	iv)Bengal Gram	20 blocks	170	165	2000 ha
	b)Integrated Nutrient Management	25 blocks	10	10	2000 ha
	i)Micronutrient
Agriculture	ii)Bio Fertilizer	25 blocks	66	65	22110 ha
	c)Integrated Pest Management-PP Chems.	25 blocks	110	108.75	22000 ha
	d)Farmers Training Meeting	10 blocks	5	4.75	35 nos.
	12)Targetting Rice Fallow Area(Oilseed)	25 blocks		929.34	14740 ha
	a) Cluster Demonstration-
	Oilseed
	b)Micronutrients & PP Chems.	25 blocks		30	3200 ha
Agriculture	c) Distribution of Fertilizer	25 blocks		107.66	11800 ha
	d) Training Meeting	25 blocks		18.4	108 nos.

SPPLY PLAN OF DIFFERENT CHEMICAL FERTILIZER FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2021 IN PURBA MEDINIPUR DISTRICT

Name of the Fertilizer	Requirement of the District (in MT)	Opening Stock(in MT)	Company wise and Product wise Supply Plan(in MT)		Short fall/Excess(in MT)
UREA	7005	120.5	IFFCO	2800	(-) 974.5
			GRASIM	600
			NFCL	1200
			NFL	50
			RCF	160
			YARA	1100
			Total	5910
M.O.P.	895	48	IPL	1000	1453
			PPL	400
			MOSAIC	900
			Total	2300
S.S.P.	1490	0%	INDORAMA	400	3010
			JAYASHREE	300
			SAI	2500
			PHOSPHATE CO.	1300
			Total	4500
D.A.P.	1339.83	573.3	IFFCO	1700	5933.47
			PPL	2000
			INDORAMA	3000
			Total	6700
N.P.K. COMPLEX	2385	1181.75	IFFCO	3600	9896.75
			CIL	5400
			INDORAMA	1000
			PPL	1060
			RCF	40
			Total	11140