Agriculture in India Notes
- Cropping Systems: Varieties – Mono-cropping, Crop Rotation, Sequential Cropping, Inter Cropping, Relay Cropping
- Direct and Indirect Farm Subsidies and Minimum Support Prices
- Concerns and Consequences of Farm Subsidies in India: Meaning, Functioning, Rationale of subsidies
- Buffer Stocks
- Public Distribution System in India: Explanation, Issues, Functioning, Necessities, Disadvantages
- Targeted PDS
- Diverse Cropping Patterns
- Irrigation Types
- Produce Transportation and Marketing, Concerns, Technological Integration
- Definitive Land Title Registration
- Biotech-KISAN Initiative
- Land ownership patterns under the British rule
- Zamindari System (Permanent settlement of Bengal)
- Ryotwari System
- Mahalwari System
- Land reforms since independence
- Objectives of land reforms in India
- Progress of Land Reforms in India
- Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana
- PM-Kisan Scheme
- Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
- Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY)
- Rythu Bandhu Scheme
- Commercial Bank
- Lead Bank Scheme
- Multi Agency Approach
- Regional Rural Banks
- National Bank for Agriculture Rural Development (NABARD)
- Kisan Credit Card Scheme
- Self Help Group (SHG) Programme
- Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)
- Historical Background
- Issues Related to Crop Insurance
- Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
- Comparison with Earlier Crop Insurance Schemes
- Challenges
- Subsidy in India
- Farm Subsidies
- Fertiliser subsidies
- Subsidy on power
- Subsidy on irrigation
- Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices
- Objectives of subsidies
- Issues of buffer stocks and food security
- Technology missions
- Economics of animal-rearing
- Public Distribution System: Objectives, Functioning, Limitations, Revamping
- Evolution from universal PDS to targeted PDS
- Buffer Stock policy and government’s intervention in food market to keep prices under reasonable limits to help consumers
- Food Security Bill
- Questions of resource mobilization for the FSB
- Agriculture Revolution in India
- Green Revolution
- White Revolution
- Yellow Revolution
- Blue Revolution
- Golden Fibre Revolution