Subject: Agriculture Context: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane payable by sugar mills for 2020-21sugar season (October-September) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister urges Centre to hike minimum support price for milling copra to ₹125 a kg Concept: Minimum support price MSP is the minimum price paid to the […]
Subject: Agriculture Context: Centre has launched the Rs 1 lakh crore Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) to be used over the next four years. This fund will be used to build post-harvest storage and processing facilities, largely anchored at the Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), but can also be availed by individual entrepreneurs. Concept: FPO A Producer Organisation […]
Subject: Agriculture Context: Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh soils are degraded and depleted because ‘organic matter’ is quite below (0.5-0.2 per cent). Concept: Organic matter is the very foundation of good soil health. It consists of plants, animal material which gets converted into humus after decomposing. It improves soil quality and fertility. It supplies nutrients, increases water-holding capacity, prevents soil erosion. Supplication of organic matter into […]
Subject: Agriculture/Schemes Context: In a world battered by the COVID pandemic, the demand for healthy and safe food is already showing an upward trend and hence this is an opportune moment to be captured for a win-win situation for Indian farmers, consumers and the environment. Concept: Organic farming is a farming method that involves growing […]
Subject: Environment/Agriculture Context: Professor Rattan Lal, the winner of this year’s World Food Prize spoke about importance of soil. Improving soil health not only boosts crop productivity, and makes farming profitable, but also mitigate the effects of climate change. Concept: Soil is living because it has 25 per cent of all biodiversity. There are […]