About KALIA Scheme:
- It was launched by the Odisha Government in December 2018, to reduce poverty and accelerate agricultural prosperity.
- The KALIA scheme supports cultivators, small farmers and landless agricultural labourers.
- It provides payments to farmers to encourage cultivation and associated activities.
- Benefits:
- Assistance for cultivation:
- It gives financial assistance of Rs.25,000 for a farm family (small and marginal farmers) over five seasons to purchase inputs like fertilisers, seeds and pesticides.
- The farm family can also use the financial assistance towards labour and other investments.
- Assistance for livelihood:
- The assistance for livelihood provides financial assistance of Rs.12,500 to all landless agricultural households for allied agricultural activities like mini-layer units, small goat rearing units, duckery units, mushroom cultivation, fishery kits for fisherman and bee-keeping, etc.
- Assistance for vulnerable agricultural household:
- The vulnerable cultivators or landless agricultural labourers will get financial assistance of Rs.10,000 per family every year to enable them to take care of their sustenance.
- Life insurance for cultivators and landless agricultural labourers:
- It provides a life insurance cover of Rs.2 lakh to cultivators and landless agricultural labourers between 18-50 years.
- It also provides a personal accident cover of Rs.2 lakh.
- Interest-free crop loan:
- Assistance for cultivation:
- The KALIA scheme will provide crop loans up to Rs.50,000 at 0% interest for the vulnerable landless labourers, sharecroppers, cultivators, and agricultural families identified by Gram Panchayats.
Q1) What is the PM Kisan Scheme?
PM Kisan is a Central Sector scheme with 100% funding from Government of India.Under the scheme an income support of 6,000/- per year in three equal installments will be provided to all land holding farmer families.The fund will be directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
Source: Odisha CM disburses Rs 877 crore KALIA assistance to 43 lakh farmers in state
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