With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
- 1.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.
- 2.Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
- 3.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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Answer: C. Statement 1 is correct: INSIMP (under RKVY, 2011-12) demonstrated better production, post-harvest and value-addition methods in clusters. Statement 2 is correct: millets are grown largely by poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers. Statement 3 is wrong: shifting commercial-crop farmers to millets with free kits was not its objective. So 1 and 2.
Watch for: Statement 3 sounds like a helpful promotional step, so students include it.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Statement 2 is also correct.
- B. Wrong because Statement 3 is not an objective of the scheme.
- D. Wrong because Statement 3 is false.
Source to check: Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, INSIMP guidelines under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (2011-12)
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