National Food Security Mission (NFSM)

1. Introduction

1.1 The National Development Council (NDC)

in its 53rd meeting held on 29th May, 2007

adopted a resolution to launch a Food Security

Mission comprising rice, wheat and pulses to increase

the production of rice by 10 million tons, wheat by

8 million tons and pulses by 2 million tons by the

end of the Eleventh Plan (2011-12). Accordingly, A

Centrally Sponsored Scheme, 'National Food Security

Mission', has been launched from 2007-08 to

operationalize the above mentioned resolution.

1.2 The National Food Security Mission will

have three components (i) National Food Security

Mission - Rice (NFSM-Rice); (ii) National Food

Security Mission - Wheat (NFSM-Wheat); and

National Food Security Mission - Pulses (NFSMPulses).

2. Mission Objectives

2.1 Increasing production of rice, wheat and

pulses through area expansion and productivity

enhancement in a sustainable manner in the

identified districts of the country;

2.2 Restoring soil fertility and productivity at the

individual farm level;

2.3 Creation of employment opportunities; and

2.4 Enhancing farm level economy (i.e. farm

profits) to restore confidence amongst the farmers.

3.1 To achieve the above objectives, the Mission

would adopt following strategies:

National Food Security Mission

Operational Guidelines

i. Implementation in a mission mode

through active engagement of all the

stakeholders at various levels.

ii. Promotion and extension of improved

technologies i.e., seed, Integrated Nutrient

Management including micronutrients,

soil amendments, IPM and resource

conservation technologies along with

capacity building of farmers.

iii. Flow of fund would be closely monitored

to ensure that interventions reach the

target beneficiaries on time.

iv. Various interventions proposed would be

integrated with the district plan and targets

for each identified district would be fixed.

v. Constant monitoring and concurrent

evaluation for assessing the impact of the

interventions for a result oriented approach

by the implementing agencies.