Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM)

Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM)

Agriculture Mechanization is an essential input to modern agriculture to increase the productivity and for making judicious use of other inputs like seeds, fertilizers, chemicals & pesticides and natural resources like water, soil nutrients etc. besides reducing the human drudgery and cost of cultivation. 

Agriculture Mechanization also helps in improving safety and comfort of the agricultural worker, improvements in the quality and value addition of the farm produce and also enabling the farmers to take second and subsequent crops making Indian agriculture more attractive and profitable. It also helps the Indian farming to become commercial instead of subsistence. There is a linear relationship between availability of farm power and farm yield. 

Therefore, there is a need to increase the availability of farm power from 1.73 kW per ha to 2.0 kW per ha by the end of 12th FY Plan to cope up with increasing demand of food grains

 Sub Mission on Agriculture Mechanization (SMAM) was launched in the year 2014-15 with the following objectives:

• Increasing the reach of farm mechanization to small and marginal farmers and to the regions where availability of farm power is low;
• Promoting ‘Custom Hiring Centres’ to offset the adverse economies of scale arising due to small landholding and high cost of individual ownership;
• Creating hubs for hi-tech & high value farm equipments;
• Creating awareness among stakeholders through demonstration and capacity building activities;
• Ensuring performance testing and certification at designated testing centers located all over the country.