agriculture sector subsidy & food processing section 4 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

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)

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: (a)

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.