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

Answer: (a)

Answer: (a)

The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 was enacted to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view to preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the society.

It freed all the bonded labourers from bondage with simultaneous liquidation of their debts. It made the practice of bondage a cognisable offence punishable by law.

The Act is being administered and implemented by the Ministry of Labour and the State governments concerned.

Answer: (a)

A study conducted in 2014 found that there are three specific characteristics associated with high-risk farmers:

1. “those that grow cash crops such as coffee and cotton;
2. those with ‘marginal’ farms of less than one hectare; and
3. those with debts of 300 Rupees or more.”

The study also found that the Indian states in which these three characteristics are most common had the highest suicide rates and also accounted for “almost 75% of the variability in state-level suicides.

Answer: (d)

A separate ministry “Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying” has been carved out of “Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare”

‘Department of Fisheries’ is under “Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying”

‘Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying’ is under “Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying”

Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, under “Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying” released the 20th Livestock Census.

Answer: (c)

Indian agriculture is typically characterised as land scare, labour surplus economy. India has high man/land ratio. There are large number of skilled labours but there is absence of land or capital.

Answer: (a)

CWC is a Warehousing Agency in India, established in 1957. It provides logistics support to the agricultural sector.

CWC is operating 464 Warehouses across the country with a storage capacity of 10.54 million tonnes providing warehousing services for a wide range of products ranging from agricultural produce to sophisticated industrial products.