476 Districts Covered under NFSM

The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) is implemented in 476 Districts of 17 States of the country. The crop-wise identified districts are as follows: NFSM-Rice: The NFSM-Rice is implemented in 138 district of 14 States, i.e., Andhra Pradesh (11districts), Assam (13districts), Bihar (18 districts), Chhattisgarh (10 districts), Gujarat (2 districts), Jharkhand (7 districts), Karnataka (7 districts), Kerala ( 1 district), Madhya Pradesh (9 districts), Maharashtra ( 6 districts), Orissa (15 districts), Tamil Nadu (5 districts), Uttar Pradesh (26 districts) and West Bengal (8 districts). NFSM-Wheat: The NFSM-Wheat is implemented in 141 districts of 9 States i.e. Bihar (25 districts), Gujarat (4 districts), Haryana (7 districts), Madhya Pradesh (30 districts), Maharasthra (8 districts), Punjab (10 districts), Rajasthan (15 districts), Uttar Pradesh (38 districts) and West Bengal (4 districts). NFSM-Pulses: Under NFSM-Pulses, 467 districts of 16 State are included. All the districts in 4 states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and 10 districts of Assam and 15 districts of Jharkhand are included under NFSM-Pulses. The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) aims to achieve an additional production of 20 million tones of foodgrains i.e. 10 million tones of rice, 8 million tones of wheat and 2 million tones of pulses by the end of Eleventh plan (2011-12). The focused and target oriented technological interventions under NFSM have made a significant impact since its inception which is reflected by the fact that the production of rice, wheat and pulses is increased from 93.35 million tones, 75.81 million tones and 14.20 million tones in 2006-07 to 94.01 million tones, 81.47 million tones and 16.51 million tones respectively in 2010-11 (2nd Advance estimate). During 2010-11, the production of rice, wheat and pulses is also expected to increase further once the rabi & Summer cropping season of 2010-11 is over.