agriculture sector subsidy & food processing section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

The growth performance of the agriculture sector has been fluctuating across the plan periods. It witnessed a growth rate of 4.8 per cent during the Eighth plan period (1992–97).

Answer: (a)

The former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh announced the launch of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana at the 53rd meeting of NDC with a Central allocation of Rs. 25,000 crore to increase the share of investment in agriculture in their state plans so as to hike agriculture and allied sector’s growth from the existing 2% to 4%.

7,810.87 crore was the allocation under RKVY for the year 2011-12.

Answer: (a)

Rapid rate of increase of population and practice of dividing land equally among the heirs are responsible for the decrease of per capita holding of cultivated land in India.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

In July 2000, the Centre Government of India had announced the first-ever national agriculture policy.

The policy aimed at achieving a growth rate of over 4 per cent per annum by introducing ‘rainbow revolution’ in the next two decades so that the total GDP growth can be sustained at 6.5 per cent.

Import of High Yielding Varieties of crops from other countries was not included in the objective of this revolution.

Answer: (a)

National seed policy was announced in 2002. National seed policy is based on the recommendations of the M.V. Rao committee in 2002.

The Policy is meant to “strengthen the seed industry’’ in view of the liberalisation in the farm sector under the World Trade Organisation. The policy seeks to provide intellectual property protection to stimulate investment in the research and development of new plant varieties.