2)Agriculture & Farmers
* Agriculture provides direct employment to about 62 percent of total workers of the State.
* The state has been nominated for the best State under Krishi Karmanya Award 2014-15
* Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna, launched during 12th five year plan, aims at achieving 4 percent annual growth in the agriculture sector.
* One mobile soil testing lab has been set up at Palampur in Kangra District.
* A modernised market complex at Solan is functional for marketing of agricultural produce.
* Distribution of land holdings according to 2010-11: Agricultural Census shows that 87.95 percent of the total holdings are of Small and Marginal. About 11.71 percent of holdings are owned by Semi Medium and Medium farmers and only 0.34 percent by large farmers.
* About 80 percent of the total cultivated area in the State is rainfed
* Crop Insurance Scheme provides comprehensive risk insurance against yield losses viz drought, hail storm, floods and pests and disease etc. The Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd. (AIC) is implementing the scheme
* Shepherd Insurance Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme. The shepherds of Himachal Pradesh have been covered under the scheme. The premium for the scheme is 330 per annum. It was started in the year 2007-08.
* Till date about 6.37 lakh Kisan Credit Cards (K.C.C.) were issued by the various banks in the State.
* During 2015-16 against the target of 150 biogas plant, 89 number of such plants have been installed.
* Agriculture provides direct employment to about 62 percent of total workers of the State.
* The state has been nominated for the best State under Krishi Karmanya Award 2014-15
* Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna, launched during 12th five year plan, aims at achieving 4 percent annual growth in the agriculture sector.
* One mobile soil testing lab has been set up at Palampur in Kangra District.
* A modernised market complex at Solan is functional for marketing of agricultural produce.
* Distribution of land holdings according to 2010-11: Agricultural Census shows that 87.95 percent of the total holdings are of Small and Marginal. About 11.71 percent of holdings are owned by Semi Medium and Medium farmers and only 0.34 percent by large farmers.
* About 80 percent of the total cultivated area in the State is rainfed
* Crop Insurance Scheme provides comprehensive risk insurance against yield losses viz drought, hail storm, floods and pests and disease etc. The Agriculture Insurance Company of India Ltd. (AIC) is implementing the scheme
* Shepherd Insurance Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme. The shepherds of Himachal Pradesh have been covered under the scheme. The premium for the scheme is 330 per annum. It was started in the year 2007-08.
* Till date about 6.37 lakh Kisan Credit Cards (K.C.C.) were issued by the various banks in the State.
* During 2015-16 against the target of 150 biogas plant, 89 number of such plants have been installed.
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