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

Answer: (d)

The importance of agriculture in the Indian Economy is indicated by its contribution to national income, industrial development and supply of foodgrains.

It contributes around 13.7% to GDP, supplies raw material for the development of industries along with supplying foodgrains for livelihood.

Answer: (d)

In an e-NAM sales, traders from all over India could bid and whoever quotes the highest price, the farmer can sell his produce to that trader (it may be across the state).

Then farmer will receive the payment in his account and then only the trader can take the physical product from the mandi. The transportation charge will be on the trader's account.

(Because of the transportation cost involved, e-NAM would not be able to ensure that the people get the agro commodity at the same price across the country. E-NAM will help that the farmers get the same price across different mandis).

Even if a farmer wants to sell his products online through e-NAM, presently, he needs to take the product in physical APMC mandi and then log in to the online portal. Govt is working on the modalities so that the farmers will be able to sell their produce online sitting at their home through their mobile with their physical produce at home, but it may take a year or more.

But on 2nd April 2020, new features were enabled in e-NAM through which:

Farmers stocking their produce in registered warehouses and having Electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (e-NWR), will be able to trade on e-NAM without physically bringing their produce in the APMC mandis.

FPOs can trade their produce on e-NAM, from their collection centre without bringing the produce to APMC mandi.

Answer: (b)

The Indian dairy sector has acquired substantial growth momentum from the Ninth Five-Year Plan onwards, as a result of which the country now ranks first among the world’s milk-producing nations.

The per capita availability of milk has reached a level of 337g per day in the year 2017, which is more than the world average of 229g per day.

Answer: (d)

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: (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.