Agriculture

  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...