Daily Practice Sheet 8 October 2021

Daily Practice Sheet

8 October 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

• Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Series
• Baltic Exchange
• Capital-to-Risk (Weighted) Assets Ratio (CRAR)
• Highest Loss In Terrestrial Water Storage
• India’s ambitious ethanol plan
• Brasilia Declaration on Road Safety
• Spike In Crude Prices
• Study finds high level of pharma contaminants in Cauvery
• Indian Space Association (ISpA)
• 35 oxygen plants set up under PM CARES
• Multidimensionally Poor
• Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
• Genetic Proof for Domestication of Sheep
• SC120-LOX
• People’s Plan Campaign
• Ajeya Warrior
• Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC)

Daily Facts

Agriculture:

• Indian agriculture is currently worth $ 370 bn
• According to 77^thround of the National Sample Survey on agricultural and rural households between 2012–13 and 2018–19, the number of agricultural households increased marginally from 90 million to 93 million.
• The declining viability of farming has reduced the share of agricultural households in total rural households from 58% to 54% during the period.
• There has been continued fragmentation has increased the share of small landholdings, of less than 1 hectare, from 67.1% in 2012–13 to 70.4% in 2018–19.
• In contrast, the share of large landowning households, with above 10 hectares, remained stable at 0.4% during the period.
• Another striking trend is the increase in land leasing. The share of land leased in for agricultural operations has doubled from 6.5% to 13% between 2002–03 and 2018–19.
• Though the share of indebted agricultural households marginally declined from 51.9% in 2012–13 to 50.2% in 2018–19, the average size of the household debt increased by more than half to `74,121, between 2012–13 and 2018–19.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: History

1. The Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure but it sparked a revolution. [Reference: The Wire, Amrit Mahotsav]
2. There were several factors both external and internal, responsible for the origin of the Ghadr Party. [Reference: Amrit Mahotsav]

GS 2: IR

1. Is AUKUS is driven by strategic concerns or entrenched interest of military industrial complex? [Reference: EPW]

GS 3: Economy

1. Can crypto currencies emerge as a competition to national currencies? [Reference: EPW]
2. Digital technology can revolutionize Indian agriculture. How far it can help in achieving the goal of doubling farmer’s income. [Reference: The Hindu]
3. Will the bad bank fix the broken banking sector? [Reference: The Hindu]
4. 77^th round of the National Sample Survey on agricultural and rural household’s survey highlights the dire plight of the farmers. [Reference: EPW]

GS 3: Science

1. The emergence and spread of block chain technology will have a profound effect on the working of the economy and society. [Reference: Allerin]

GS 4: Ethics

1. What is prejudice and systematic discrimination?