Agriculture

Topic- prelims (upsc)  GI Tag GI refers to indication of the special goods identified in a specific geographical area of any country, state, district, local bodies or villages. GI Tagging represent the goods that are secured and no other person can use that registered name except authorised user. User may be an individual,  groups, NGO, companies etc that registered themselves with geographical indication registry under registrar. The head office of GI registry is in Chennai.  Users are registered for a maximum of ten years but may be time to time renewal for next ten years and then again.......and so on. Fee is  ₹ 5000 on registration for ten years. Goods may be agricultural products, crafts, arts, fruits, textiles, metals, etc. Goods must be special, specific, unique, in production, reputation or with any extra ordinary quality belongs to that territory specially. It provides security to users to keep its products unique and gives protection from unfair competitio...

  MINIMUM SUPPORT PRICE (MSP) Cereal It is a minimum rate assured remunerative price by the government to its farmers for their agricultural produces to sale in the markets not below this minimum rate. It means that there are a fix rate of agricultural produces in a financial year for both Kharif and Ravi crops to assure the farmers that if there is no market available for farmers to sale their produces as they want on profit or getting loss on stress selling at very low price in markets then in that situation government entities will procure their products at predefined minimum rate with at least 50% remunerative ( profit) of their  average actual costs production across country.  "In 2018-19, during budget announcement   finance minister Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman announced the fixing of the MSP at a level of at least 1.5 times of the all indian weightage average cost of production" Explanation : let us assume, a farmer produces wheat in a season and total expense...

  Groundnuts production  in India   Gujarat is the largest producer of groundnuts in India, which is followed by Rajasthan Tamilnadu, Andhra-pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya pradesh, Maharasra and West Bengal.  The crop is grown in both Kharif and Ravi seasons. The Kharif has a share of more than 75% of the total production. India's groundnuts importing countries are: Indonesia  Malasiya  Philippines  Thailand Vietnam  Nepal Ukraine  China Russia United Arab Emirates etc.

  Agroforestry   Slogan for promoting agroforestry is: Har Medh Par Pedh Agroforestry is the combination of agricultural and forestry technologies to create integrated diverse and productive land use systems. It is a complex land management system of deliberate growing agriculture with forest and animal Husbandry for maximum production and income on the same unit of land as an agriculture simultaneously which become multi functional and given diverse benefits. It has been applied in both small and on large tract of land, where in small unit, trees are grown surrounding the agricultural unit;while in large tract of land, trees are aligned or grown in rows with agricultural crops in alternate manner. It has three main components that are:  Agricultural crops  Forest trees Livestock or animal husbandry  Based on these three components, there are three types of agroforestry technological practices : Agri-silviculture agroforestry : Here agri means agricultural crops...

    Gopal Ratna Award for Dairy Sector   Every year,the first day of June is observed as World Milk Day. The Minister announced the launch of the National Awards for the Cattle and Dairy sector, the Gopal Ratna Awards.  The award has three categories -   Best Dairy farmer,  Best Artificial Insemination Technician (AIT)   Best Dairy Cooperative/ Milk producer Company/ FPO.  Note- He mentioned that eligible farmers/dairy cooperative societies/ AI technicians can apply for award online and portal for award will open from 15th July 2021. Winners for the award will be announced on 31st October 2021. e-GOPALA app (Generation of wealth through Productive Livestock), a comprehensive breed improvement marketplace and information portal for direct use of farmers, had been launched by Hon’ble PM on 10th September 2020.  India is a global leader amongst dairying nations and produced 198.4 million tonnes of milk during 2019-20. Value of output o...

Background:  Edible oil crisis in India  On an average, the annual demand in India is 24 million tonnes of edible oils  While production of oils like palm oils, mustard oils, soybean oils, groundnut oils and sunflower oils are in India is only 8 to 11 million tonnes annually. India imports 13.35 million tonnes ( 133.50 lakh tonnes) oils costing 80 thousands crores. To meet this demand Government of I ndia imports 60% of its oil demand from foreign countries. It means India's edible oils dependency is more than how much it produce. To reduce this dependency  government planning to distribute free of cost soybean and palm oils seeds for boosting oil seeds production. Whenever prices of oils in international market increases the oil prices goes high immediately in India and leads to inflation. Now India looking for green revolution for oils prodution. India is the world's biggest cooking oil importer over the past two decades because:  population has increas...