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Agriculture being a state subject, the primary responsibility for increasing agriculture production,enhancing productivity, and exploring the vast untapped potential of the sector rests with the state governments. However, in order to supplement the efforts of the state governments, a number of centrally sponsored and central-sector schemes are being Imple mented for enhancing agricultural production and productivity in the country and increasing the income of the farming community.
agriculture and allied sectors from 4.88 per cent of total State Plan expenditure in 2006-07 to 6.04 per cent of in 2010-11 (Revised EstimatesRE).
Extension Services
The Support to State Extension Programmes for Extension Reforms Scheme was launched in 2005-06, aiming at making the extension system farmer driven as well as accountable to farmers by providing for new institutional arrangements for technology dissemination. This has been done through setting up of Agricultural Technology Management Agencies (ATMA) at district level to operationalize the extension reforms. The ATMA has active participation of farmers/farmer groups, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders operating at district level and below. Gender concerns are being mainstreamed by mandating that 30 per cent of resources on programmes and activities are utilized by women farmers and women extension functionaries. Since inception, 1.70 crore farmers of which 25 per cent are women farmers, have been benefited under various extension activities. Certain other schemes which support agriculture sector are mass media support to agriculture focusing on Doordarshan infrastructure and All India Radio (AIR) broadcasting agriculturerelated information; kisan call centres to provide agricultural information to the farming community through toll free telephone lines; agri-clinic and agribusiness centres by agriculture graduates to provide extension services to farmers on payment basis through setting up of economically viable self employment ventures, and information dissemination through agri fairs. Further, extension education institutes at Nilokher (Haryana), Rajendra Nagar, (Andhra Pradesh), Anand (Gujarat), and Jorhat (Assam) are operating at regional level to improve the skills and professional competence of extension field functionaries of agriculture and allied departments. In addition, there are model training courses on thrust areas of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, and fisheries with the objective of improving the professional competence, upgrading the knowledge, and developing technical skills of subject matter specialists/extension workers of Agri -culture and allied departments. MANAGE, Hyderabad, an apex Institute at the national level, provides training to middle and senior level officers of agriculture and allied departments of the states/UTs.