agriculture sector subsidy & food processing section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

In Cooperative tenant farming, the society holds the land and leases it to individual members.

Answer: (a)

The Intensive Agriculture District Programme (IADP) was launched as the first major experiment in intensive agriculture development in the year 1960.

The intensive Agriculture Development program (IADP) was the first major experiment of the Indian government in the field of agriculture and it was also known as a “package programme” as it was based upon the package approach.

The core philosophy was to provide loans for seeds and fertilizers to farmers.

Answer: (d)

In the year 1999, the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme was introduced by replacing the comprehensive crop Insurance Scheme. NAIS covers all food crops (cereals and pulses), oilseeds, horticultural and commercial crops.

It covers all farmers, both loanees and non-loanees, under the scheme. The growth rate of the primary sector reached above 8% with the green revolution. Both the given statements are not correct.

Answer: (a)

The decision to partially decontrol the sugar sector was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).

This gives millers the freedom to sell in the open market and remove their obligation to supply the sweetener at subsidised rates to ration shops.

The Rangarajan Committee has recommended total decontrol of the sugar industry by doing away with the levy sugar obligation, release mechanism and freeing of export-import.

Answer: (c)

Livestock contributes 25 per cent of gross value added in the agriculture sector and provides self-employment to about 21 million people.

Growth of livestock output averaged 4.8 per cent per annum during the Eleventh Plan recovering from an average of 3.6 per cent in the Ninth and the tenth Plans.

Answer: (a)

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) regulates organic foods in India. FSSAI in Nov 2017, published regulations on organic food which regulates the manufacture, sale, distribution and import of organic food in India.

As a consequence, any food to be sold as ‘organic’ in India will have to be certified under either of the two prevailing systems. The two systems are National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) and the Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India).

Prior to the application of these regulations, only food products meant for export have to be certified and that too under the NPOP system. The PGS-India system is meant for the domestic market only. Drafted with an objective of addressing the problem of fraud and mislabelling in food claimed as ‘organic’, the organic regulations allow the import of organic food into India without being re-certified in India if the organic standards of the exporting country have been recognised as equivalent to NPOP.

Apart from operationalising these regulations, FSSAI has also developed a common logo for organic food from India called ‘Jaivik Bharat’ which would integrate the logos of both—the NPOP system and PGS-India.