Krishi Karman Awards
2014 – 15
Prime
Minister Mr. Narendra Modi conferred National Krishi Karman Awards for the year
2014-15 in New Delhi. The awards were presented to 8 State Governments, which
were received by the Chief Minister of respective states. The objective of
these awards is to encourage and motivate the states to enhance production and
productivity of rice, wheat, pulses and coarse cereals and oilseeds.
Prime
Minister also launched a mobile application for farmers – "Kisan
Suvidha." This will provide information to farmers on subjects such as
weather, market prices, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and agriculture
machinery.
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Winner States of Krishi
Karman Awards 2014-15
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Category
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Purpose
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Winner
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Prize
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I
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Production greater than 10 million tonnes
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Madhya Pradesh
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Each award winning state received a trophy, a citation and a cash
award of 5 crore rupees
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II
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Production between 1 and 10 million tonnes
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Himachal Pradesh
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Odisha
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III
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Production less than 1 million tonnes
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Arunachal Pradesh
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Meghalaya
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Individual Crops
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Rice
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Haryana
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Each award winning state received a trophy, a citation and a cash
award of 2 crore rupees
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Assam
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Wheat
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Rajasthan
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Pulses
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Chhattisgarh
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Oil Seeds
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West Bengal
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About Krishi
Karman awards
• These awards were
instituted in the year 2010-11 to reward the best performing States in
foodgrains and individual crops of Rice, Wheat, Pulses and Coarse Cereals.
Krishi Karman awards are given to Best performer States for raising country's
food grain production.
• The awards comprises
of three awards for total food grain production and four awards for production
of rice, wheat, coarse cereals and pulses - the crops that constitute the food
grain.
• In addition to the
above Commendation Awards are also given to States which achieved production
and productivity higher over their previous highest in 4-5 years, yet could not
qualify for Krishi Karman Awards. The amount for Commendation Award is 1 crore
rupees for each State.
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