Indian Dairy Sector: Production by Masses
Context The dairy sector in India is distinguished by production by masses rather than mass production, as it employs more than 8 crore families in the country. PM Modi made this statement recently at the International Dairy Federation World Dairy Summit 2022 in Greater Noida. He also stated that the central government is working hard […]
Path To Intelligent And Precise Agriculture
Context The Green Revolution in India, which began in the 1960s, enabled the country to make significant strides in domestic food production and contributed significantly to progress in agriculture and allied sectors. It transformed India from a food-deficit country to an export-oriented country with a food surplus. In India, 70% of rural households still rely […]
What Are Coarse Cereals?
Context: Government push to coarse cereals as climate change affects wheat, paddy cultivation. Relevance: GS III: Agriculture Dimensions of the Article: What are Coarse Cereals? Significance Why has the Government changed its attention to Coarse Cereals? What are Coarse Cereals? The country’s agroclimatic zones with limited resources have traditionally grown coarse cereals. Agroclimatic zones are […]
Integration of ODOP With ONDC
Focus: GS III- Agriculture Why in News? Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles called for the integration of One District One Product (ODOP) initiative with Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). The Minister said that ONDC would help in further expanding the frontiers of ODOP by bringing […]
One Nation One Ration Card
Focus: GS III-Food Security Why in News? Over 77 crore portable transactions recorded in One Nation One Ration Card Scheme (ONORC). About One Nation One Ration Card Nodal: Ministry of Finance One Nation One Ration Card System is an important citizen centric reform. Its implementation ensures availability of ration to beneficiaries under National Food Security Act […]
Wheat Waiver” Risky WTO Demand
Context The WTO ministerial meeting in June in Geneva did little to address the issue of public food stockpiling Relevance Mains Paper 3: PDS, Buffer Stock & Food Security Mains Question Why should developing countries keep pushing for a permanent solution to the World Trade Organization’s decision on whether to allow public stockholding of food […]
EU Palm Oil Alternatives
Context Indonesia and Malaysia claim the EU’s palm oil restrictions are unfair and “discriminatory,” and they are hoping for a WTO resolution. Meanwhile, the EU has imposed new restrictions on the use of palm oil as a fuel. Relevance GS Paper 2: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests GS […]
Direct Seeding of Rice
Context: Punjab is not only a long way away from its target of Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) for this year (as it could only achieve 6.7% of the total target) but also the state has seen 85.7% decline in DSR area from the last season. Relevance: GS III- Agriculture Dimensions of the Article: What […]
What is Minimum Support Price?
Context: The Centre has finally constituted a committee headed by former Union Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal here to look into the issues of Minimum Support Price (MSP), as promised to protestant farmers after the repeal of three farm laws. Relevance: GS-III: Agriculture (Agriculture Pricing), GS-II: Social Justice (Welfare Schemes) Dimensions of the Article: What is […]
Rice Shortage In India
Context While overall crop coverage has increased since last year, rice crop coverage has decreased. One of the causes is a lack of rainfall in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. However, adequate stocks and widespread cultivation indicate that there should be no cause for concern. Relevance GS Paper 3: Agriculture– Major cropping patterns in various parts of […]