UPSC CSE Prelims
Question 37
With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
- This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.
- Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
- An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and microirrigation equipment.
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Correct answer: C
Correct Option: C
Explanation: The intensive millets initiative emphasised cluster demonstrations, improved production and post-harvest practices to support millet growers, especially small and tribal producers; it was not a mass inducement to shift cash-crop farmers using free irrigation kits.
Statement/Pair-wise Analysis:
Statement/Item 1: Correct - Integrated cluster demonstrations cover production, processing and value addition for millets.
Statement/Item 2: Correct - Marginal, small and tribal farmers were important beneficiary groups.
Statement/Item 3: Incorrect - The project was not principally a free micro-irrigation/input-kit conversion scheme for commercial-crop farmers.
Option-wise Analysis:
A: Incorrect - omits correct statement/item 2.
B: Incorrect - includes incorrect statement/item 3; omits correct statement/item 1.
C: Correct - includes all and only the true statements/items.
D: Incorrect - includes incorrect statement/item 3.