National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
- December 1, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
Subject – Agriculture
Context – Extreme weather: Over 5 million hectares of crop lost due to rain in 2021.
Concept –
- The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), which is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) seeks to address issues regarding ‘Sustainable Agriculture’ in the context of risks associated with climate change by devising appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies for ensuring food security, equitable access to food resources, enhancing livelihood opportunities and contributing to economic stability at the national level.
- NMSA has been formulated for enhancing agricultural productivity especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management and synergizing resource conservation.
Mission Interventions: NMSA has following four (4) major programme components or activities:
- Rainfed Area Development (RAD): RAD adopts an area based approach for development and conservation of natural resources along with farming systems.
- On Farm Water Management (OFWM): OFWM focuses primarily on enhancing water use efficiency by promoting efficient on – farm water management technologies and equipment.
- Soil Health Management (SHM): SHM aims at promoting location as well as crop specific sustainable soil health management including residue management, organic farming practices by way of creating and linking soil fertility maps with macro – micro nutrient management, appropriate land use based on land capability, judicious application of fertilizers and minimizing the soil erosion/degradation.
- Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: CCSAMMN provides creation and bidirectional (land/farmers to research/scientific establishments and vice versa) 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 system suitable to local agro – climatic conditions.