1. The idea behind Operation Greens is to double the income of farmers by end of 2022. Operation is essentially a price fixation scheme that aims to ensure farmers are given the right price for their produce. 2. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech, has announced Operation Green on the lines of Operation Flood for enhancing the production of tomato, onion and potatoes. A sum of Rs 500 crore has been allocated for this new measure. 3. The Cabinet is likely to consider Wednesday a proposal to launch a new scheme 'Operation Green' with a corpus of Rs 500 crore to aid farmers in times of erratic price fluctuation in tomatoes, onions and potatoes, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said Tuesday.
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SUB : 1. The idea behind Operation Greens is to double the income of farmers by end of 2022. Operation is essentially a price fixation scheme that aims to ensure farmers are given the right price for their produce.
2. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech, has announced Operation Green on the lines of Operation Flood for enhancing the production of tomato, onion and potatoes. A sum of Rs 500 crore has been allocated for this new measure.
3. The Cabinet is likely to consider Wednesday a proposal to launch a new scheme 'Operation Green' with a corpus of Rs 500 crore to aid farmers in times of erratic price fluctuation in tomatoes, onions and potatoes, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said Tuesday.
REF : . What is Operation Greens?
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed to launch Operation Greens in his speech while presenting the Union Budget 2018-19 in Lok Sabha today. Jaitley proposed that it would be launched with an allocation of Rs 500 crore on the lines of Operation Flood.
But what is Operation Green all about?
*Operation Greens aims to promote farmer producers organisations, agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management. The operation aims to aid farmers and help control and limit the erratic fluctuations in the prices of onions, potatoes and tomatoes.
*Union Government proposes to launch an ‘Operation Greens’ on the lines of ‘Operation Flood’.
*‘Operation Greens’ shall promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management.
*The idea behind Operation Greens is to double the income of farmers by the end of 2022. Operation is essentially a price fixation scheme that aims to ensure farmers are given the right price for their produce.
*The MSP regulation has a key role to play here. The announcement to set minimum support price of all kharif crops at 1.5 times the cost of production will increase the farmers’ income and for consumers, tax incentives will be given under Operation Greens.
*The government aims to focus on basic ingredients and not on additional commodities in agriculture.
*Operation Greens will work to increase demand in the economy as well with its demand forecasting model.
*To help in the structural and infrastructure part of the scheme, as many as 470 agriculture market committee (APMCs) promoted markets will now be connected to the e-nam platform while the government will help in development of 22,000 agricultural markets.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed to launch Operation Greens in his speech while presenting the Union Budget 2018-19 in Lok Sabha today. Jaitley proposed that it would be launched with an allocation of Rs 500 crore on the lines of Operation Flood. But what is Operation Green all about?
Operation Greens aims to promote farmer producers organisations, agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management. The operation aims to aid farmers and help control and limit the erratic fluctuations in the prices of onions, potatoes and tomatoes.
“My Government proposes to launch an ‘Operation Greens’ on the lines of ‘Operation Flood’. ‘Operation Greens’ shall promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management. I propose to allocate a sum of Rs 500 crore for this purpose,” Jaitley said.
The idea behind Operation Greens is to double the income of farmers by the end of 2022. Operation is essentially a price fixation scheme that aims to ensure farmers are given the right price for their produce. The MSP regulation has a key role to play here. The announcement to set minimum support price of all kharif crops at 1.5 times the cost of production will increase the farmers’ income and for consumers, tax incentives will be given under Operation Greens.
The government aims to focus on basic ingredients and not on additional commodities in agriculture. Operation Greens will work to increase demand in the economy as well with its demand forecasting model. To help in the structural and infrastructure part of the scheme, Jaitley announced that as many as 470 agriculture market committee (APMCs) promoted markets will now be connected to the e-nam platform while the government will help in development of 22,000 agricultural markets.
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2. Cabinet may take up Operation Green scheme Wednesday, says Harsimrat Kaur Badal : Financial Ecpress : PTI
The Cabinet is likely to consider Wednesday a proposal to launch a new scheme 'Operation Green' with a corpus of Rs 500 crore to aid farmers in times of erratic price fluctuation in tomatoes, onions and potatoes, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said Tuesday.
The Operation Green or the TOP Scheme is a simple scheme, announced in this year’s Budget, will be implemented on a pilot basis for two years after the Cabinet nod, she said. (Reuters)
The Cabinet is likely to consider Wednesday a proposal to launch a new scheme ‘Operation Green’ with a corpus of Rs 500 crore to aid farmers in times of erratic price fluctuation in tomatoes, onions and potatoes, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said Tuesday. Another cabinet proposal to set up a non-banking financial company (NBFC) with an initial corpus of Rs 2,000 crore to meet credit needs of the food processing sector is expected to be taken up in the next week, she said.
“We are seeking cabinet approval for two schemes. I feel the TOP (tomatoes, onions and potatoes) scheme may be taken up in the tomorrow’s cabinet meeting. The NBFC proposal may come up next week,” Badal said on the sidelines of a CII event. The Operation Green or the TOP Scheme is a simple scheme, announced in this year’s Budget, will be implemented on a pilot basis for two years after the Cabinet nod, she said.
Elaborating further, Badal while addressing the event said that the TOP scheme will focus only on three produce tomatoes, onions and potatoes. Three clusters for each produce have already been identified. The clusters will be linked directly to the markets. The state governments will be roped in. The subsidy will be given for setting up of storage facility near the consumption centres, she said.
The idea is to move the produce to a consumption base during glut and before the prices fall and affect farmers income, she added. The Operation Greens aims to promote farmer producers organisations, agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management. With regard to the proposed NBFC, the minister said, “We are in the final stage of the proposal and it will come most probably in next cabinet meeting”.
“We will roll out our own financial institution which will not only lend to food processing sector but will also work in different ways in capacity building, in risk assessment and senstising the banks.” The proposed NBFC will be set up with an intial corpus of Rs 2,000 crore and the government will invest Rs 400 crore in it, she said, adding that partners will be roped in through the bidding process.
Asserting that the NDA government has focused a lot on food processing sector, the minister quoting the industry sources said that the level of food wastage has come down by up to 8 per cent on account of several steps taken over last four years. Mega food parks, backward and forward linkages and clusters are being created under the Rs 6,000 crore Pradhan Mantri SAMPADA (Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) Yojana, she said.
Already 15 mega food parks have been set up and are operational. About 280 cold chains are also in place and 60 per cent of them are functioning. 50 more cold chains are expected to be created, the minister said. “When our food security is under threat, that’s when cold chain and the storage facilities play a crucial role to ensure not only prices stay under control but there is enough food
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3. Rs 500 crore allocated for 'Operation Green' : The Hindu : Business Line
The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget speech, has announced Operation Green on the lines of Operation Flood for enhancing the production of tomato, onion and potatoes. A sum of Rs 500 crore has been allocated for this new measure.
Jaitley also announced that for the forthcoming Kharif season, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops will be 1.5 times the cost incurred by farmers. This will help increase farmers' income.
He also said that 470 Agriculture Produce Market' Committee (APMC) promoted markets would be connected to the e-nam market platform, and 22,000 Gramin agriculture markets will also be developed.
Populist measures :
Agriculture expert, Jagadish Sunkad, said that the Finance Minister has announced a lot of populist measures for agriculture, therefore the fineprint of the budget is awaited for understanding the true impact of the measures.
Linking of MSP with the cost of cultivation is unusual measure as the cost of cultivation of crops varies across the country. How this linkage would be executed is a atter of wait and watch, he said.
Sunkad, who has been a consultant with ADB said that linking of e-nam market platform with APMCs is a farce as no data on the performance of the market platform has been disclosed. On the other hand, farmers are still selling their produce through commission agents.
The budget has also increased the credit to agriculture sector from Rs 10 lakh crore to Rs 11 lakh crore. But the farmers of the country are already reeling under past debts. Are the farmers in a position to take new debts? he asked.
4. Operation Green is Modi government’s TOP priority : The Print
Operation Green had not even been planned at the time of Arun Jaitley’s 2018 budget speech, although he allotted Rs 500 crore for it.
New Delhi: At a recent pre-election rally in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that farmers were his ‘TOP’ priority. By ‘TOP’, Modi said he meant Tomato, Onion and Potato.
“Keeping these farmers in my mind, we announced Operation Green in the Budget… Operation Green will assure incomes for tomato, onion, potato,” he said, days after Finance Minister Arun Jaitely had presented the budget for 2018-19 and announced a Rs 500-crore outlay for Operation Green.
But details of the programme which grabbed the headlines had not even been formulated when the announcement was made and are still being worked out by officials, ThePrint has learnt.
“A structured discussion on the scheme began after the budget was announced,” Jagdish Prasad Meena, secretary in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, told ThePrint
“There must have been some discussions between the finance minister and prime minister,” said another senior official in the ministry.
“It (Operation Green) was announced in the budget and now the ministry is mandated to implement it. But right now there is no scheme. Stakeholders consultations will take place and then a scheme will be made,” he added.
The implementation of the scheme is likely to take time, as it will only be launched by April.
Present status
The ministry is at present consulting stakeholders to decide what shape the scheme will take.
“For Operation Green, right now, we are only consulting with the various stakeholders-state governments, farmers, existing farmers producers organisations (FPOs), experts, scientists. Based on their input we’ll formulate the program,” said Meena.
The ministry has identified 15 states that lead in the production of ‘TOP’.
A major challenge is that the current varieties of TOP are not suitable for processing. To fix this, the ministry plans to hold talks with the industries and convey their needs to farmers.
“The next step would be to circulate a spending finance committee note for taking the approval of the competent authority, which is required for a scheme with an expenditure of Rs 500 crore,” said Meena.
By the end of March 2018, the ministry aims to take the approval of an inter-ministerial committee, after which the scheme can be launched in April.
What is Operation Green?
According to the budget announcement, Operation Green will be modelled on the successful “Operation Flood”. It will use farm produce companies to manage the price volatility of perishables like TOP.
“Operation Green will help regularise supply of TOP so that the market does not face a glut,” said a senior NITI Aayog official who works on farm issues.
The government aims to create processing facilities to use excess produce.
“The government is looking at compressing the supply chains and creating appropriate climate infrastructure for natural preservation of tomatoes, onions and potatoes, promoting FPOs, agri logistics processing facilities, and professional management,” Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal told reporters recently.
Old wine in new bottle? NO, NOT ...
Over the years, the government has come up with similar programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana, which was launched in 2016. Officials, however, claim that Operation Green is overarching and is specifically targeted at TOP, unlike SAMPADA.
“The targeted programmes earlier were not executed in a holistic manner. Operation Green ties the two ends and also the consumer. It is an end-to-end solution,” said Meena
The NITI Aayog official agreed that with Operation Green gaps in the value chain logistics from farm gate to delivery point will be narrowed, with respect to pack houses, cold chains and primary processing facilities.
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NOTE :
PM felicitates crew of INS Arihant on completion of Nuclear Triad :
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi received today the crew of Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN) INS Arihant. The submarine recently returned from its first deterrence patrol, completing the establishment of the country’s survivable nuclear triad.
Stressing the significance of the successful deployment of INS Arihant for the completion of India’s nuclear triad, the Prime Minister congratulated the crew and all involved in the achievement which puts India among a handful of countries having the capability to design, construct and operate SSBNs.
Noting that the indigenous development of the SSBN and its operationalisation attest to the country’s technological prowess and the synergy and coordination among all concerned, the Prime Minister thanked them for their dedication and commitment in realising this pioneering accomplishment enhancing immensely the country’s security.
The Prime Minister commended the courage and commitment of India’s brave soldiers and the talent and perseverance of its scientists, whose untiring efforts transformed the scientific achievement of nuclear tests into establishment of an immensely complex and credible nuclear triad, and dispelled all doubts and questions about India’s capability and resolve in this regard.
The Prime Minister stated that the people of India aspire for a ‘Shaktimaan Bharat’ (Strong India) and building a New India. They have strived tirelessly to overcome all challenges in this path. He stressed that a strong India will fulfill the hopes and aspirations of over a billion Indians and will also be an important pillar for global peace and stability, especially in a world full of uncertainties and concerns.
The Prime Minister extended greetings to the participants and their families on the occasion of Deepawali, the Festival of Light. He expressed the hope that just as light dispels darkness and all fear, INS Arihant will be harbinger of fearlessness for the country.
As a responsible nation, India has put in place a robust nuclear command and control structure, effective safety assurance architecture and strict political control, under its Nuclear Command Authority. It remains committed to the doctrine of Credible Minimum Deterrence and No First Use, as enshrined in the decision taken by the Cabinet Committee on Security in its meeting chaired by the then Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on January 04, 2003.
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