Atal Bamboo Samruddhi Scheme
Bamboo is a versatile forest product and is called “green gold” because of its economic importance. Bamboo is the “timber of the poor” as it is an easily available and affordable forest product to meet the needs of human wood.
It is also called. Bamboo is a fast growing, evergreen and long lasting species. Bamboo cultivation has the potential to provide economic security to the farmers.
The market for bamboo in the country is around Rs. 26,000 crore which includes bamboo furniture, bamboo pulp, bamboo mat board, cartridge industries, ply board etc. Bamboo also has unlimited potential to overcome global warming by absorbing carbon at high speeds. Taking all these factors into consideration, the Central Government has launched the National Bamboo Mission to ensure proper development of bamboo and to make full use of the potential of bamboo for the economic and social development of the poor and for the development of the entire country.
(National Bamboo Mission) has been established.
Bamboo cultivation will improve the economic condition of the mourners and help in raising their standard of living. For this, farmers need to be provided with good bamboo seedlings.
At present bamboo tissue culture plants are available from states outside Maharashtra. A scheme to produce high quality berry seedlings in the state and make them available to the farmers at a discounted rate for cultivation on land and on farm dams on 27th June.
Approval has been given in the cabinet meeting on 2019. In line with this recognition, the government was considering launching a new scheme to supply tissue culture bamboo seedlings to farmers at a discounted rate.
Ruling: –
शासना The government is approving the implementation of a new scheme called “Atal Bamboo Samrudhi Yojana” to supply tissue culture bamboo seedlings at concessional rates to farmers for planting bamboo on agricultural land as well as on show dams.
Objectives of Atal Bamboo Samrudhi Yojana: –
1. To supply tissue culture bamboo seedlings to the farmers.
2. To supplement the income from agriculture, increase the area under bamboo cultivation on the land.
3. Bamboo cultivation will help the farmers to make a living and improve the economic condition of the Hotaks and help them to raise their standard of living.
Tissue Culture Bamboo Plants Needed: –
1. According to the characteristic of bamboo, bamboo dies when it blooms. Bamboo flora falls into the following two trends.
2. A) Sporadic flowering: –
It does not have all the bamboo flowers in a row in the bamboo area but a few selected bamboos come in rare places.
B) gregorius flowering –
It contains all the bamboo flowers in a row in the bamboo field.
Since the life cycle of bamboo is 40 to 100 years, its seeds are not available on time. Also the place and duration of gregorius flowering is not fixed. Therefore, it is not possible to produce the species from these seeds commercially.
● Germination of bamboo seeds is very low and its viability is only 3 to 6 months. Due to this uncertainty, bamboo seedlings are made by bamboo grafting (Vegetative Propagation). Tissue culture bamboo seedlings are a great option for maintaining the quality of good bamboo seedlings and species purity and for producing large quantities of bamboo seedlings.
● If farmers do not know the species after purchasing bamboo seedlings from other nurseries available in the market and planting them in the field, they will not get the expected yield from that species after 5 years of hard work. This will cause a lot of loss to the farmers. The main objective of bamboo development is to provide purity and identification of species. This objective can be achieved by providing tissue culture bamboo seedlings to the farmers.
Species for tissue culture bamboo seedlings: –
● In Maharashtra, Dendrocalamus strictus, Katang (Bambusa bambusa) are found in Vidarbha region and Manga (Oxytenenthara stocksii) is found in large numbers in Konkan region. In addition to the above 3 endemic species, the following 5 species have been selected in consultation with experts who have been working in the bamboo field for many years: –
1) Bambusa balcooa
2) Dendrocalamus brandisii
3) Bambusa nutan
4) Dendrocalamus asper
5) Bambusa tulda
According to the commercial approach of the National Bamboo Campaign, the first 4 large bamboos out of 5 cultivable species are suitable for farmers and biomass will be available from them in a good way. Bambusa tulda is a species suitable for agarbatti and other handicraft work.
Atal Bamboo Prosperity Tissue Culture Laboratory: –
In Maharashtra today, various laboratories are available for the preparation of tissue culture seedlings of bananas, pomegranates, orchards, ornamental plants, etc. and other trees. The Maharashtra Bamboo Development Boards, in collaboration with the Government’s Mahabeej and other Tyrew Culture Laboratories, have provided one week training to each of the technicians at the Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bangalore. Has come.
An agreement has been signed between the Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board and the Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST) for providing technology and training. The Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST) will provide protocols of 7 species and their base cultures. Through this training, bamboo tissue culture seedlings will be prepared in various laboratories spread across Maharashtra and made available to the farmers. At present bamboo tissue culture plants are available from states outside Maharashtra. If seedlings are produced and hardened in these laboratories in Maharashtra, the chances of successful planting of bamboo on the farmland of the farmers will increase. Local tissue culture laboratories in Maharashtra will also be encouraged and bamboo seedlings will be supplied to farmers from nearby laboratories. This program will be continued by Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board.
Benefits / Features of Bamboo Cultivation –
Since the life cycle of bamboo species is 40-100 years, there is no need to cultivate bamboo every year. (Bamboo does not need to be planted every year like food grains as well as vegetables. The life cycle of bamboo is that bamboo is alive till it blooms.)
● Bamboo does not suffer as much damage as agriculture even if it receives more or less rain. Every year 8-10 new bamboos are produced in the bamboo islands. Bamboo can be grown successfully on wetlands, alkaline soils as well as fallow soils. Compared to other crops, bamboo stalks cost 30-40% less.
Sustainable income can be obtained as bamboo can be extracted after the third year, except for the first and second year bamboo.
● Bamboo cultivation will also benefit both soil erosion and water conservation.
● The above mentioned features will provide sustainable support and economic security to the farmers. In addition, bamboo has the capacity to produce 26 value-added products from bamboo shoots to leaves. E.g. From bamboo shoots, pickles, vegetables, wood, curtains, furniture, incense sticks, textiles, energy (CNG, Ethanol, Charcoal) etc. It is in the interest of the farmers and the environment to encourage them to cultivate large quantities of bamboo in the field for the availability of raw material of bamboo.
Efforts will be made through Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board to provide market to the farmers for the products produced from bamboo.
Rate of Tissue Culture Bamboo Plants: –
Tissue culture bamboo seedlings cost about Rs. 25 / – per plant. Farmers will buy bamboo seedlings in advance and plant them on the land. After the inspection of bamboo cultivation on the land, the government will deposit 80 per cent of the price of bamboo saplings directly to the land holders of 4 hectares or below and 50 per cent subsidy to the land holders who have more than 4 hectares. Also, the farmers have to bear the cost of the remaining bamboo seedlings at the rate of 20 and 50 per cent respectively.
Selection of Beneficiaries for Atal Bamboo Scheme: –
The following criteria are being fixed for selection of beneficiaries: –
In order for farmers to get bamboo seedlings at a discounted rate, they will be required to submit an application in the form prescribed by the Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board along with the following documents.
(1) Agricultural Village Sample 7/12, Village Sample Eight, Copy of Village Map.
(2) Proof of residency from Gram Panchayat / Nagar Parishad / Nagar Panchayat.
(3) Drip irrigation and bamboo to get the expected yield of bamboo in the field to be planted.
A protective fence to protect the seedlings from pigs when the seedlings are small
Guarantee of being.
(4) Copy of Aadhar Card.
(5) Bank account details and copy of passbook / photocopy of blank check.
(6) The applicant shall be required to link his bank account with Aadhar number and
For this, a copy of the letter given to the bank and the receipt of receipt received from the bank.
(7) Guarantee in the prescribed form regarding the presence of well / farm / borewell in the field.
(8) Guarantee / bond in the prescribed form regarding care and protection of bamboo plants.
(9) Guarantee for sending photos through Geo Tag / GIS.
(10) To show the area on which bamboo is to be planted on the hot land and also on the embankment of the show in green color on the area map.
Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board will invite online application for bamboo cultivation by giving wide publicity in the newspaper. Those who are not able to submit online application will have to submit a written application to the office of the concerned Forest Range Officer (Regional) in their area. In case of selection of farmers, in case of receipt of more than the target number of applications, the applicants will be selected on “drop” basis. The applicant who is selected as above will be given a letter of selection from Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board. After that the applicant is required to purchase and plant the seedlings from the nursery certified by Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board. Thereafter, the applicant should apply to the Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board for a grant. Grant will be distributed to the applicant in the prescribed manner after inspection of cultivation by Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board / Forest Department. Grant will not be admissible if the applicant has planted bamboo other than the applicant selected by the above method.
Method of implementation of Atal Bamboo Samrudhi Yojana: –
Bamboo cultivation will be completed with the participation of Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board and Forest Department. First the farmers should purchase and plant bamboo saplings from the nursery certified by Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board under the guidance of Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board and Forest Department.
Planting of tissue culture seedlings is to be done at the rate of 500 seedlings per hectare (at a distance of 5 m. 54 m). For farmers with less than 4 hectares, a total of 500 bamboo saplings for 1 hectare with 20% Marali as well as 100 for a total of 600 bamboo saplings at 80% discounted rate and for farmers with more than 4 hectares with a total of 500 bamboo saplings for 1 hectare with 20% Marali Thus, a total of 600 bamboo saplings of 100 will be allowed at 50% discount. After inspecting and certifying the plantation by Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board, the financial assistance received from the government will be credited directly to their bank account / postage savings account. The remaining 20% and 50% of the cost of bamboo seedlings are to be borne by the farmers themselves. (E.g. if the price of tissue culture bamboo sapling is Rs. 25 / -, Rs. 20 / – per sapling (80%) for farmers with less than 4 ha and Rs. 12 / – per sapling for farmers with more than 4 ha. 50 / – (50%) will be payable by the Government. In addition the remaining amount of Rs. 5 / – and Rs. 12.50 / – per plant will have to be paid by the farmer himself)
This scheme will be implemented from 2019-20.
Expert guidance will be given on cultivation of bamboo species considering the soil texture of the farm land, irrigation facilities, nearby markets, local demand for bamboo etc. Technical guidance will be provided by advisors, experts appointed by the Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board, experts, and local field officers / staff of the forest department on the care, protection, water content, fertilizer, insecticide spraying, intercropping, etc. after planting bamboo in agriculture. The Forest Department’s “1926-Hello Forest” call center will also provide guidance and assistance.
● Beneficiary farmers should purchase bamboo saplings from the nursery certified by Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board on Cadillac method. For that, he has to provide the price to the seller from his own bank account corresponding to his Aadhaar number. This means that the price must be provided by Electronic Fund Transfer or Demand Draft / Check by NEFT, RTGS, IMPS etc. and proof of this must be provided while claiming the grant.
After purchasing bamboo saplings as above, the beneficiary Shahotak should take two copies of the payment from the concerned nursery and submit a self attested copy of one of the payments to the concerned officer / office of Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board or Forest Department.
After the above procedure, the entire amount of subsidy should be credited to the farmer’s account through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
Monitoring and Evaluation: –
Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board appointed to evaluate the number of live bamboo seedlings planted in agriculture, growth and full growth of seedlings, pre-harvest and post-harvest monitoring and management as well as market available for sale of bamboo in future, farmers’ economic and social progress, scheme success etc. This should be done by consultants, experts and local field officers / staff of the forest department.
After planting bamboo on farm land, it should be geo-tagged and field polygons should be created in GIS and the progress of bamboo cultivation should be monitored frequently through Google Earth.
Committee for selection of suppliers for supply of tissue culture bamboo seedlings: –
Structure of the Committee:
1. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Chief of Forest Force) State of Maharashtra, Nagpur – President
2. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Production and Management), State of Maharashtra, Nagpur – Member
3. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Budget, Planning and Development), Nagpur – Member
4. Managerial
Scope of the Committee: –
Under “Atal Bamboo Samrudhi Yojana”, tissue culture bamboo seedlings are to be supplied to the cultivators for cultivation of bamboo on the farm land as well as on the Shota dam to uplift the living standards of the farmers. To select the supplier on the basis of rate and quality by obtaining competitive rates through e-tender as well as publication in national level newspapers.
Powers and Duties of the Committee: –
1. Determining rates by evaluating the rates received through e-tender for supply of bamboo plants.
2. Determination of Panel of Selected Suppliers for Supply of Tissue Culture Bamboo Plants.
Atal Bamboo Samrudhi Scheme Online Application –
https://intranet.mahaforest.gov.in/forestportal/index.php?option=bambooapp&AntiFixation=ed28987b44a1d4c03ae5e2e318e85f15
Source: Forest Department, Government of Maharashtra
