CA : April 2019 onwards

2019-04-28 06:33:08

Protect Ongole Cattle bull #scheme : is indigenous to Andhra, humpback, resistance to mouth and foot mad cow disease.
Rashtriya Gokul Mission #scheme : augment milk production, increase bovine pop, under National Prgrm for Bovine breeding and Dairy development; Gokul grams to develop indigenous breeds
National Animal Disease Control Program (NADCP) for foot and mouth disease and brucellosis, affects hoofed cattle particularly Bovines aims at 500mil vaccinations. #scheme
African Swine fever : highly contagious and fatal w/ fatality rate close to 100% was first detected in Africa 1920 and has no approved vaccine.
20th Livestock census : total livestock pop is 535.78 mil inc 4.6%, total bovine pop 302mil, dec of 6% indigenous cattle. #report
Special Livestock sector packgage by CCEA to boost sector, make it more remunerative.
- Revise existing animal husbandry scheme into 3 categories. 1. Dev programs 2. Disease Control 3. Infra Dev fund.
True Cost Accounting TCA : does not just looks at financial values but also calculates the impacts on natural and social environment.
Export of Sugar has inc 10x in last 4 years due to high demand of IN sugar and centre gives export subsidy of Rs 6000/tonne.
Fair and Remunerative Price FRP aka MSP for Sugar : min price at which sugar mills have to purchase sugarcane from farmers.
- Announced by CCEA on recom of CACP and is governed by the Sugarcane Control Order 1966. Mandates payment within 14 days of date of delivery of the cane.
- Based on Ranjarajan #committee report.
- State Advised Prices SAP slightly higher than FRP for key sugarcane producing states.
Palk Bay fishing #scheme : to encourage deep sea fishing in the Palk bay area. Projects wants to replace trawler boats and introduce deep sea fishing boats. Provides subsidies for buying them.
- Bottom Trawling : involves dragging weighted nets along seafloor -> catches juvenile fishes, affects marine conservation efforts. Solution to it is deep sea fishing (depth at least 30m) by designing boats that would give access to deeper parts of the Ocean.

Other CA

2020-08-20 13:05:24

Streptomycin and Tetracycline are ==TB durgs== used in crops as pesticides banned.
Surplus rice to make Ethanol for sanitizers.
MACS 4028 biofortified high protein wheat.
three major types of fertilizers used are ==Urea, Muriate of Potash and Diammonium Phosphate==.
Whiteflies are pests that mostly attack cotton, Bt cotton is not immune to it, Tectaria marcrodonta is a fern that repels it.
Modified New Pricing Scheme III:- incentive to domestic urea manufacturers, encourage urea production.
Banana : 37% of total fruit production in IN, 13% of area. Assam, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Methanotropic bacteria reduce methane emission from rice plants through anaerobic metabolism
Kisan Rail #Scheme : cold supply chain for fish, milk and meat (perishable goods), PPP.
AGRO water soluble fertilizers import from CN.
Vertical Farming : grown in vertical stacks, uses same amt of water, less raw material, with or without soil, indoors, low carbon foot print
Geranium : plant that is anti-inflammatory and anti-septic agent, from South Africa.
Seed Treaty : International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) w/ CBD,
Portable Cold Storage by IIT Madras solar powered, 500kg capacity.
Wheat genome decoded 40x larger than rice and 5x human genome.
Direct ethanol production from ==B-molasses, earlier C-molasses==.
IN has 5th largest crop area under GM crops BT Cotton after US, BRA, ARG, CAN.

Static - PDS Objectives, Functioning, Limitations, Revamping, Issues of Buffer Stocks and Food Security; Technology Mission; Economics of Rearing Animans

2020-10-22 07:59:08

#todo

Static : Technology Missions

2020-10-22 08:00:14

#todo

Static : Economics of Animal Rearing

2020-10-22 08:00:23

#todo

Mo Food and Public Distribution #scheme

2020-06-11 19:13:29

National Food Security Act, 2013 by Mo Food and Public Distribution:

subsidized food grains to approximately 2/3rd of India’s population with uniform entitlement of 5 kg/person/month.
converts the various existing food security schemes into legal entitlement a change from welfare based approach to rights based approach
includes the Midday Meal Scheme, ICDS scheme, the PDS etc.
Rs. 3, Rs. 2 , Rs. 1 per kg for rice, wheat and coarse grains respectively price will not exceed MSP.
pregnant and lactating mother is entitled to a free meal at the local anganwadi as well as maternity benefits of Rs.6,000 in installments
identification of eligible households is left to state governments

Price Stabilisation Fund

PSF Scheme for maintaining a strategic buffer to maintain price and discourage hoardings. Encourages purchase from Mandis

Antyodaya Anna Yojana

aims to make Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) more focused and targeted towards the poorest section 35 kg of rice and wheat distributed at rates of Rs 3 and Rs 2 per kg covers 2.50 Cr households

Seva Bhoj Yojana

: Central Sector Scheme under which CGST and IGST paid by Charitable Religious Institutions on purchase of specific raw food items shall be reimbursed.

PYQ

2020-10-30 16:47:21

MSP and PDS

What are the major challenges of Public Distribution System (PDS) in India? How can it be made effective and transparent? (भारत में साव्भजननक नवतरण प्णाली (पी.डी.एस.) की प्मुख चुनौनतयाँ क्ा है? इसे हकस प्कार प्भावी तथिा पारदिथी बनाया जा सकता है?) 2022

What are the reformative steps taken by the government to make food grain distribution system more effective? (अनाज नवतरण प्णाली को असधक प्भावी बनाने हेतु सरकार द्ारा कौन-कौन से सुधारात्मक कदम उठाए गए हैं ?) 2019

What do you mean by Minimum Support Price (MSP)? How will MSP rescue the farmers from the low income trap? (न्ूनतम समथि्भन मूल (एम० एस० पी०) से आप क्ा समझते है? न्ूनतम समथि्भन मूल कृ षको का न ं नम्न आय फं दे से हकस प्कार बचाव करेगा?) 2018

How do subsidies affect the cropping pattern, crop diversity and economy of farmers? What is the significance of crop insurance, minimum support price and food processing for small and marginal farmers? (सहाययहकयां सस्न प्नतरूप, सस् नवनवधता और कृ षको की आर्थिक स् ं स्नत को हकस प्कार प्भानवत करती हैं ? लघु और सीमांत कृ षको के ल ं लए, फसल बीमा, न्ूनतम समथि्भन मूल और खाद्य प्सं स्रण का क्ा महत्त्व है ?) 2017

“In the villages itself no form of credit organisation will be suitable except the cooperative society.” - All Indian rural credit survey. Discuss this statement in the background of agriculture finance in India. What constrain and challenges do financial institutions supplying agricultural finances? How can technology be used to better reach and serve rural clients? (‘‘गाँवो में सहकारी स ं गमनत को छोडकर, ऋण सं गठन का कोई भी अन् ढांचा उपयुति नही होगा।’’ - अखखल भारतीय ग्रामीण ऋण सवदेक्ण। भारत में कृ नष नवत की पृष्ठभूगम में, इस कथिन पर चचा्भ कीजजए। कृ नष नवत् प्दान करने वाली नवत्ीय सं स्ाओ को ं हकन बाध्ताओ और कसौ ं हियो का सामना करना प ं डता है? ग्रामीण सेवार्थियों तक बेहतर पहंच और सेवा के ललए प्ौद्योगगकी का हकस प्कार इस्तेमाल हकया जा सकता है?) 2014

Food security bill is expected to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in India. Critically discuss various apprehensions in its effective implementation along with the concerns it has generated in WTO? (खाद्य सुरक्ा नबल से भारत में भूख व कु पोषण के नवलोपन की आिा है। उसके प्भावी काया्भन्वयन में नवशभन्न आिं काओ का समालोचनात्मक ं नववेचना कीजजए। साथि ही यह भी बताएं हक नवश् व्यापार सं गठन (WTO) में इससे कौनसी चचताएं उ ं त्न्न हो गई हैं?) 2013

What are the different types of agriculture subsidies given to farmers at the national and state levels? Critically analyze the agriculture subsidy regime with the reference to the distortions created by it. (राटिट्ीय व राजकीय स्तर पर कृ षको को दी जाने वाली ं नवशभन्न प्कार की आर्थिक सहायताएँ कौन-कौन-सी है? कृ नष आर्थिक सहायता व्यवस्ा का उसके द्ारा उत्न्न नवकृ नतयो के सं द ं भ्भ में आलोचनात्मक नवश्ेषण कीजजए।) 2013