agriculture sector subsidy & food processing section 7 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

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: (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: (a)

‘Guaranteed maximum prices’ has not been a component of the agriculture strategy that brought about the Green Revolution.

The strategy aimed at increasing the yield of crops using fertilizer, pesticides and high yielding varieties in agriculture.

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.