Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Department is making all out efforts for conveying the benefits of the state government's welfare schemes to farmers with a view to making agriculture a profitable business. As a result of these efforts, Madhya Pradesh now stands on top as far as production of pulses, oilseeds, gram, maize and soyabean is concerned. State's share in soyabean production is 57.42 per cent. This is the result of Agriculture Fortnights organised before Rabi as well as Kharif sowing to make farmers aware of latest techniques of farming and sowing and method of choosing the crop. Similarly, the department has introduced novel schemes including Kisan Rath and Agriculture Fair in the field of agriculture extension. National Productivity Council, New Delhi has awarded the state for excellent performance in agriculture extension. With a view to benefiting farmers more, Patwari Halqa was made the implementation unit of National Crop Insurance Scheme in place of Tahasil for paddy irrigated, paddy non-irrigated, soyabean and Tuar pulses for Kharif-2006 and wheat irrigated, wheat non-irrigated, gram and mustard for Rabi-2007. National Foodgrains Security Mission was launched by National Development Council on May 29, 2007 under which Central Regional Scheme has been implemented in Madhya Pradesh during the year 2007-08. With a view to facilitating agricultural works in the rural background and saving bovine species, a scheme to grant subsidy on the purchase of bullock-carts from the year 2007-08. Under the guidance of the Union government, National Agriculture Insurance Scheme has been implemented by Madhya Pradesh government to give financial assistance to farmers in case their crops are devastated by natural calamities. Under this scheme, there is provision of giving insurance money to affected farmers through co-operative banks, Regional Rural Banks as well as commercial banks. The unit of this scheme was tehasil which has been shifted to Patwari Halqa since Kharif 2006 and it gave insurance cover to paddy irrigated, paddy non-irrigated, soya bean and Tuar. From Kharif-2007, maize and millet were included in the crop insurance cover. Patwari Halqa has been made unit of implementation of this scheme since Rabi-2006-07 for giving insurance cover to wheat irrigated, wheat non-irrigated, gram and mustard. For the year 2007-08 Patwari Halqa would be scheme's unit for Rabi crops of wheat irrigated, wheat irrigated, gram and mustard while for the rest of crops tehsil would be the unit of implementation of National Agriculture Insurance Scheme.