White Revolution Subject – Agriculture Context – November 26, 2021 was celebrated in Anand, Gujarat as the 100th birth anniversary of Verghese Kurien, the leader of India’s ‘white revolution’, which increased the incomes and the wealth of millions of cattle-owning small farmers in India, many of them women. Concept – Operation Flood, launched on 13 January 1970, was the world’s largest dairy development program and a landmark project of India’s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). In July 1970 with technical assistance from the United Nations Development […]
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) Subject – Agriculture Context – Extreme weather: Over 5 million hectares of crop lost due to rain in 2021. Concept – The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), which is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) seeks to address […]
Economic and Operational cost of FCI Subject – Agriculture Context – In a move probably aimed at reducing handling costs at the initial stage of the rice procurement process, the Centre has asked Punjab to explore the possibility of auctioning paddy in some districts where there is a surplus. Concept – Food Corporation […]
Animal Husbandry Dept signs MoU with Food Processing Ministry Subject – Agriculture Context – Animal Husbandry Dept signs MoU with Food Processing Ministry Concept – The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Food Processing Industries for extending the benefits of various schemes to […]
Coffee Subject – Agriculture Context – ₹1,200-cr development plan brewing for coffee sector Concept – Geographical Conditions Coffee plant requires hot and humid climate with temperatures ranging between 15°C and 28 °C and rainfall from 150 to 250 cm. Frost, snowfall, high temperature above 30°C and strong sun shine is not good for […]
Food Miles Subject – Agriculture Context – The trend of eating locally produced, seasonal foods that our previous generations swore by has been discarded by most of us. Concept – Food miles is the distance food is transported from the time of its making until it reaches the consumer. Food miles are one […]
Integrated Farming Systems Subject – Agriculture Context – Integrated farming systems emerge as possible climate adaptation solution Concept – Integrated Farming System (IFS):- A sub system of a high level land use system like a village or a watershed which includes crop production, raising livestock, fishery, poultry, beekeeping etc. on a particular farm […]
Landraces Subject – Agriculture Context – Among the winners of this year’s Padma awards is RahibaiPopere, popularly known as Seedmother, from Akole taluka of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. Her Padma Shri is a recognition of her work that has helped save hundreds of landraces (wild varieties of commonly grown crops) at the village level. Concept […]
New Scheme To Digitise PACs Subject – Agriculture Context – Centre holds consultations with States and UTs on new scheme to digitise PACs Concept – The Centre held a virtual consultation with 32 States and Union Territories on a new central scheme to modernise and digitalise over 97,000 primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACs) […]
Rainfed Farming Subject – Agriculture Context – Agro-ecology in dryland regions can bolster nutrition security Concept – The United Nations Environment Program defines agro-ecology as “an ecological approach to agriculture, often described as low-external-input farming. Other terms such as regenerative agriculture or eco-agriculture are also used. Agro-ecology is not just a set of […]