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

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)

A Kisan Credit Card is a credit card to provide affordable credit for farmers. It was started by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) in 1998–99 to help farmers access timely and adequate credit.

Answer: (a)

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.