GOVERNMENT OF KER ALA PERFORMANCE BUDGET 2018-2019 AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT & FARMERS’ WELFARE DEPARTMENT FINANCE DEPARTMENT PERFORMANCE BUDGET 2018 -19 AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FARMERS’ WELFARE DEPARTMENT FINANCE DEPARTMENT CONTENTS Page s Executive Summary 1 - 4 Chapter - 1 Introduction 5 - 34 Chapter – II Financial outlays and 35 - 66 quantif iable deliverables Chapter - III Reform measures and 67 – 69 performances Chapter – IV Review of past performance 70 – 88 Chapter - V Financial Review 89 – 100 Chapter –VI Review of performance of 101 – 176 autonomous bodies 1 Vegetab le & Fruit Promotion 105 – 128 Council, Keralam 2 Kerala Land Development 129 – 156 Corporation Ltd 3 Kerala State Horticultural 157 – 164 Products Development Corporation Ltd. 4 Kerala Agro Industries 165 – 176 Corporation Ltd Chapter –VII Comments of the Finance 177 - 210 Department EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Government have re-introduced Performance Budget for Development Schemes and related expenditure in selected Departments on the basis of the recommendation of the Public Accounts Committee in its 140th report (2008-2011). As such we have been preparing Performance Documents of Agriculture Development and FarmersÊ Welfare Department, Forest & Wildlife Department and Water Resources Department since 2013-14. The Documents are prepared and placed before the Legislative Assembly along with other Budget Documents. The preparation of documents is based on the model of the Performance Budget Documents of the Central Government. The exercise generally focuses on the Developmental Schemes (Plan Schemes) and related expenditure with regard to the demands / appropriations and expenditure of the departments concerned. It doesnÊt give importance on routine administrative expenses. It takes care to ensure the figures of Budget Allocation, expenditure, etc included in the documents will conform to those adopted in the Budget Documents and related documents of the Government. Performance Budget broadly indicates the physical dimensions of the financial budget and also the actual physical budget and look into whether both the physical and financial targets are achieved or not within the stipulated time. The guidelines for the preparation of Performance Budget of 2018-19, has been issued, vide Circular No.52/2019/Fin dated 23/05/2019. The copy of the circular had been send to the concerned Heads of department. Performance Budget had been prepared by interactions with Heads of the department, Officers and Staffs in the department, last but the least mainly with the help of constraints and suggestions arised from the farmers. Performance Budget in respect of Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare Department for 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017- 18 were prepared and placed before the Legislative Assembly along with other Budget document in consecutive years. This has been Performance Budget 2018-19 1 Agriculture Development & Farmers Welfare Department done to ensure the public money is well spent. It aims to bring transparency as well as efficiency to a great extent to the implementation of the schemes. The Performance Budget 2018-19 of Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare Department consists of seven chapters. The details of chapter I to VI were furnished by the Agricultural Development and Farmers Welfare Department. Chapter VII is an analysis of schemes by Finance Department, which includes conducting field visits and data obtained from the implementing offices/ head of department. A summary of contents (Chapter wise) is given below. Chapter I Introduction The chapter contains a brief introductory note on the functions of the department, goals / objectives, organizational set up, its mandate and list of major programmes / schemes implemented by the department. Chapter II Financial outlays and quantifiable deliverables Chapter-II includes a tabular format, which visualizes as „Vertical compression and Horizontal expansion‰ of statement of budget estimates. The main objective is to establish a one to one correspondence between financial budget 2018-19 of various schemes and programmes implemented by the Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare Department. Details are furnished in Annexure-I. Chapter-III Reform measures and performance This chapter describes reform measures and policy initiatives, if any, taken by the department and how they relate to the intermediate outputs and financial outcome in various areas/fields, such as public private partnerships, alternative delivery mechanisms, Performance Budget 2018-19 2 Agriculture Development & Farmers Welfare Department social empowerment processes including the empowerment of women and children, greater decentralization, transparency etc. Chapter-IV Review of past performance This chapter contains the review of past performances in comparison to that of the current year stated in the report. Chapter- IV provides the details regarding with the performance of the Agriculture Development and Farmers' Welfare Department during the year 2017-18 in terms of target already set. It reviews the scheme wise past performance of various programmes and activities undertaken by the Department. The details are given in Annexure II. Chapter-V Financial Review Financial review covering overall trends in expenditure vis-a-vis Budget Estimate/Revised Estimates in recent years, including the current year ie, 2019-20 (Scheme wise, object head wise and institution wise in the case of autonomous institutions) and the position of outstanding utilization certificate and unspent balances with departments and implementing agencies are included in this chapter. The details are provided in Annexure-III. Chapter-VI Review of performance of autonomous bodies This chapter includes the review of performance of autonomous and statutory bodies under Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare Department. There are nine such autonomous bodies under the Department. They are a. Kerala Land Development Corporation b. Kerala State Horticultural Products Development Corporation Ltd. c. Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council, Kerala d. Kerala State Agro Industries Corporation Ltd. e. Plantation Corporation of Kerala f. Kerala State Warehousing Corporation. g. Kerala Agro Machinery Corporation. h. Oil Palm India Ltd Performance Budget 2018-19 3 Agriculture Development & Farmers Welfare Department I. State Farming Corporation of Kerala. Of these, the following bodies had been selected by Finance Performance Budget. a. Kerala Land Development Corporation b. Kerala State Horticultural Products Development Corporation Ltd. c. Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council, Kerala d. Kerala State Agro Industries Corporation Ltd. Chapter VII Comments of Finance Departments Chapter VII contains a peripheral analysis of schemes based on the details furnished by Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare Department and the data collected by conducting selected field visits in implementing offices by Finance (Performance Budget) team. Performance Budget team had conducted interactive sessions with Head of Departments, Officers, staff and farmers explaining salient features of performance budgeting and collected feedback from them to form a basis of Performance Budget report for the year 2018-19. Adverse climatic conditions prevented Finance (Performance Budget) Department from a more extensive coverage of field offices during this year. As part of Performance Budget 2018-19 of Agriculture Department, Finance (Performance Budget-A) team visited the following offices of Assistant Directors of Agriculture and selected Krishi Bhavans under them. 1. Office of Assistant Director of Agriculture, Attingal dated on 29/06/2019. 2. Office of Assistant Director of Agriculture, Sasthamcotta dated on 10/07/2019 3. Office of Assistant Director of Agriculture, Chalakudy dated on 18/07/2019 The major constraints, suggestions and the recommendations can be seen in chapter VII. Thiruvananthapuram February 2020 Performance Budget 2018-19 4 Agriculture Development & Farmers Welfare Department CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION The agricultural system in Kerala is unique and distinct from other states in terms of land utilization and cropping pattern. Plantation and cash crops , food crops, and homesteads are the predominant system of crop production in the state. The Department of Agriculture was established in the State of Kerala in 27th May 1908, has celebrated its 100th year in the service of farming community. All these years the Department had been giving a helping hand to the farmers of the State through the efforts in agricultural extension and farm research activities. In the present set up, the Department started functioning from 1987 onwards for the overall development of agriculture in the State. Consequent to the adoption of farmer welfare activities along with agricultural development activities, the Department has been renamed as „Department of Agriculture Development and Farmers ' Welfare‰ in 2016. VISION Self sufficiency in food production through enhanced agricultural productivity of crops so as to make agriculture a sustainable and viable enterprise, providing livelihood support is the vision of the department. MISSION The mission of the Department is to:- • Transform agriculture into a more profitable crop production intensification system by converging all subsectors of agriculture and revitalization of extension mechanism. • Safeguard the interest of the farmers, ensure food and nutritional security and support Kerala's agricultural economy. • Achieve targeted