Parliament Question: Operation Greens

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 816 ANSWERED ON 23RD JULY 2026 OPERATION GREENS

816. SHRI BRIJMOHAN AGARWAL:

Will the Minister of FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES be pleased to state:

(a) the details of the budget allocated and actual expenditure utilized for the Short-Term Interventions component of Operation Greens in 2025-26 and 2026-27 till date;

(b) whether retrospective Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) data severely delays the Trigger Price Mechanism, causing Farmer Producer Organisation (FPOs) to face distress sales before transport and storage subsidies are officially activated and if so, the details thereof;

(c) the number of FPOs from Chhattisgarh’s aspirational districts that successfully claimed this fifty per cent subsidy during recent tomato and minor fruit price crashes; and

(d) the corrective measures proposed, such as integrating the SAMPADA portal with real- time e-NAM APIs for predictive advance subsidy alerts or providing upfront subsidy vouchers instead of delayed reimbursements? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SHRI RAVNEET SINGH)

(a) to (d): Under short term interventions component of Operation Greens scheme, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) was providing transportation and storage subsidy for eligible perishable crops @50% of eligible cost. However, the same was transferred to Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) in 2023-24. Hence, no budget has been allocated to MoFPI for the short-term interventions’ component of Operation Greens in 2025-26 and 2026-27.

Investment & Price Support Division under DA&FW deals with the implementation of Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) under the integrated Scheme of Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) for the procurement of agricultural and horticultural commodities which are perishable in nature and are not covered under the MSP regime. The sanction details under MIS since 2025-26 to 2026-27 (as on 17.07.2026) is given in the Annexure.

The objective of MIS is to protect the growers from making distress sale in the event of a bumper crop during the peak arrival period when the prices tend to fall below economiclevels and the cost of production. There should be at least a 10 percent decrease in the ruling market prices over the previous normal year. The scheme is implemented at the request of a State/UT government, which is ready to bear 50 percent of the loss (25 percent in case of North- Eastern States), if any, incurred on its implementation. The extent of total amount of loss to be shared on a 50:50 basis between the Central Government and the State Government is restricted up to 25 percent of the total procurement value based on Market Intervention Price (MIP) which includes cost of the commodity procured plus permitted overhead expenses. The total procurement value is the cost of procured quantity at Market Intervention Price (MIP) determined by MIS Committee plus permitted overheads expenses, which is generally of 25% of MIP. Under this scheme, the procurement is carried out by State designated agency upto 25% of estimated state production of the particular crop at fixed MIP. However, States/UTs have also an option to make the differential payment between the MIP and Sale Price to the farmers without physical procurement.

Further, in special cases, where there is a price difference of TOP crops (Tomato, Onion and Potato) between the producing and consuming states, in the interest of the farmers, the operational costs incurred by Central Nodal Agencies (CNAs) like National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Limited (NCCF) and State designated agencies in storing and transporting crops from the producing state to other consuming states will be reimbursed.

*****ANNEXURE ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 816 FOR ANSWER ON 23.07.2026 REGARDING ‘OPERATION GREENS’ The sanction details under MIS since 2025-26 to 2026-27 (As on 17.07.2026) Year Commodity State MIP Sanctioned Status Mode (Rs. Per Qty MT) (MT) 2025- Red chillies Karnataka 105,892 73,732 Not Price 26 (season 2024-25) implemented Difference payment Red chillies Telangana 103,740 172,135 Not Price

(season) implemented Difference payment Ginger Mizoram 27,800 15,058 Implemented Physical Procurement Mango Karnataka 16,160 250,000 Implemented Price (season 2025-26) Difference payment Totapuri Mango Andhra 14,907 162,500 Not Price (season 2025-26) Pradesh implemented Difference payment Onion (Kharif Andhra 10,000 97,887 Not Price season 2025-26) Pradesh implemented Difference payment 2026- Potato Uttar 6,500.90 20,00,000 Not Physical 27 Pradesh implemented Procurement Totapuri Mango Karnataka 17,500 1,30,000 under Price implementation Difference Payment Totapuri Mango Andhra 17,470 2,16,250 under Price Pradesh implementation Difference Payment Totapuri Mango Tamil 15454.10 96,879 under Price Nadu implementation Difference Payment *****