Agriculture

  Topic: GS3 paper  Science and technology, indigenous development of technology,  Geography: animal conservation   IndiGau  is a cattle genomic chip of purely indigenous  cow animal breed developed by the Indian Institute of animal biotechnology Hyderabad to conserve the breed of cow. Purposes :  To achieve the goal of conservation of our own breeds with better characters. For example Gir, Sahiwal, kankrej, Ongole etc. To help toward the doubling the farmers income by 2022. Reference   https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1745479

  Aim- to facilitate farmers to get right information at right time. Benefits : Farmers can use this platform to get information  They can communicate with  scientists directly to obtain advisories on agriculture and its allied sectors of Kisan Vigyan Kendras. It empowers farmers with technological interventions to reach farmers in remote areas.  Note- It was launched on 16july 2021 at 93rd icar foundation day.

. The app is developed by the ICAR-central Institute of fresh water aquaculture (ICAR-CIFA) Bhubaneswar with funding support of national fisheries development board (NFDB). Aim : To disseminate the latest fresh-water aquaculture technologies to the aqua-farmers of the country. Features :  Matsya setu app have species wise /chapters wise learning online course modules.  Aquaculture experts explain the basic concept and practical demonstration on breeding, seed production,  grow up culture of commercially important fishes like carp, catfish,  scampi, murrel, ornamental fish, pearl farming. Better management practices to be followed in maintaining the soil and water quality, feeding and health management.  Modules are divided in to small vedio chapters for convenience. Quiz test and assessment program are available.  Upon successful completion of  each course module an e- certificate  can be  auto-generated. Farmers can also ask their doubts fro...

  Cow dung paint  It is India’s first and only made paint from cow dung in Jaipur. It is a cow dung paint. It was launched in January 12th, 2021 by the Ministry of micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). It has a potential of creating sustainable development for benefit  of the poorest of the poor.  A new plant has been installed at Jaipur with daily productions capacity of 500 litres. Which a unit of khadi and village industries commission (KVIC). The plant is equipped with modern technology and machinery that ensures high standards in terms of quality and uniformity.  This product is available in two forms: Distemper  Emulsion  Objectives : it has two objectives: To increase the farmers income  To generate employment  Advantage : it has multiple benefits that are: Eco-friendly  Cost-effective  Odorless  Non-toxic  Natural thermal insulation  Anti-fungal  Anti-bacterial  Reference  https://pib.go...

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...

AmbiTAG IITRopar develops "AmbiTAG"- India's first indigenous temperature data logger for the cold chain management

    Rural Development in India   Government of India has launched two app for the transparency and accountability in the MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL  RURAL EMPLOYMENT GAURANTEE SCHEME (MGNREGS). These two app are: National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) app The  NMMS App   will help to take a real time attendance of workers at MGNREGS' place of  work  along with locational photograph, which will increase citizen oversight of the programme and will make payment facilities faster of their work. Area officer monitoring (AOM)app Area Officer Monitoring App facilitates to the officials to record their findings online along with time stamped, tagged photograph for all the schemes - Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, PMAYG (pradhan mantri awas yojana  gramin), PMGSY(pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana) . This would enable them to keep better record of inspections and to facilitate  for analysis of the findings for better programme implementation. Benefits: Tra...

Fertilizers subsidy increased for 2021 Kharif Formers benefited and Government getting loss

  National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm The Government of India through the National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm has the objective to augment the availability of edible oils and reduce the import of edible oils by increasing the production and productivity of oilseeds and oil palm. To this end a multi-pronged strategy is being adopted which includes the following: Increasing the seed replacement ratio with focus on varietal replacement Increasing irrigation coverage Nutrient management Intercropping with cereals/pulses/sugarcane Productivity improvement and adoption of proven and climate-resilient technologies Area expansion through diversification of low yielding food grains. Targeting rice fallow areas and high potential districts Promotion in non-traditional states Encouraging mechanization Research projects Training of farmers and extension officials Supporting cluster demonstrations for the adoption of good agricultural practices Creation of 36 oilseed hubs with a foc...