Rajasthan

In 2019-20, Chief Minister of Rajasthan during the budget speech of FY2019-20 declared support to natural farming to reduce input costs with a view to empower farmers through remunerative agriculture – Kheti Mein Jaan Toh Sashakt Kisan. The scheme in the form of a pilot project was initiated in three districts of the State. Under the scheme, 18,313 farmers were trained in a two-day long workshop conducted by master-trainers of the Department. 10,658 farmers were provided with drums, buckets, jugs and sprayers at a subsidy of up to 50% of their costs but limited to Rs 600 per farmer for preparing the organic inputs. In 2020-21, the scheme was implemented in 15 districts of the State 17,900 farmers were trained on natural farming under the scheme.

^ - Source - NITI Aayog webpage on Natural Farming

The current (2023) status of the scheme is not known.