Strategies and Roadmap for Self-Sufficiency

• Horizontal Expansion: Increase area under pulses by using rice fallow lands, intercropping with crops like sugarcane, restructuring rice–wheat systems, and applying the district-wise quadrant strategy for targeted interventions.
  • Quadrant Strategy: Employing a district-wise four-quadrant approach (High Area-High Yield, High Area-Low Yield, Low Area-High Yield, and Low Area-Low Yield) helps categorize districts for targeted interventions.
• Vertical Expansion: Enhance productivity through improved seed varieties, modern farming machinery, optimal agronomic practices, and better stress management (abiotic & biotic).
• Varietal Development: Develop climate-resilient, short-duration, nutrient-rich, pest- and disease-resistant, and machine-harvestable varieties using advanced breeding and genomics.
• Seed Quality & Access: Establish “One Block–One Seed Village” hubs via FPOs to ensure availability of high-quality seeds, treatment kits, and end-to-end traceability, supported by seed subsidies.