Pursuant to the Budget Announcement 2023 and on the recommendations of the EFC, the CCEA in its meeting held on 28th June, 2023, has approved Market Development Assistance (MDA) @ ₹1,500/MT to promote organic fertilizers, produced at plants under umbrella Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBARDHAN ) initiative covering different Biogas/CBG support schemes/programs of stakeholder Ministries/Departments such as Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP & NG), ‘Waste to Energy’ program of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) of Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (DDWS), etc. with total outlay of ₹1451.84 Crore (FY 2023-24 to 2025-26), which includes a corpus of ₹360 Crore for research gap funding etc.
Main provisions of the Policy on Promotion of Organic Fertilizers are as under:
- The Market Development Assistance @ 1,500/MT will be provided to promote organic fertilizers, produced at plants under umbrella Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBARDHAN ) initiative covering different Biogas/CBG support schemes/programs of stakeholder Ministries/Departments.
- All manufacturing-cum-marketing entities including CBG/Bio-gas operators, marketers/distributors under umbrella GOBARDHAN initiative; and registered on Unified GOBARDHAN portal of Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (DDWS); and Fertilizer Marketing Companies marketing their organic fertilizers, shall be eligible for Market Development Assistance (MDA) for promotion of organic fertilizers.
- There will be a corpus for gap funding/research to be utilized only by Central/State Research Institutes or non-private fertilizer cooperatives.
- A Steering Committee chaired by Secretary (Fertilizers) and comprising of at least Joint Secretary level officers of line Ministries/Departments will oversee operational aspects and detailed guidelines for Market Development Assistance, subject to the approval of Hon'ble Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers.
- The provision of Market Development Assistance (MDA)/Corpus is for three years (FY 2023-24 to FY 2025-26).
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