White Revolution was launched in 1970 through the National Dairy Development Board under the name ‘Operation Flood’. The success of the White Revolution: Quality Brands: Amul has become one of India’s most loved brands, and is respected internationally too for the quality of its products and the efficiency of its management. It has successfully competed…
Blue Revolution ‘Blue Revolution 2.0/ Neel Kranti- a revolution called by the PM in the fisheries sector; It refers to explosive growth in the aquaculture industry. A few older initiatives were launched under the 7th FYP -1980s. All these have been replaced by the PM Matys Sampada Yojana by the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of…
Animal Husbandry includes various types of practices, of which the most important ones in India include: Dairy Farming Aquaculture Sheep Husbandry Cuniculture Pig Farms Sericulture Poultry Beekeeping Editor’s Note In these chapters, we shall study the situation of India’s livestock farmers, and their economies. We shall see the backward and forward linkages therein. We shall…
In 2022-23, the Agri-exports have reached $53.1 billion with a registered growth of 18%. India supplies more than 3% of world agri-export commodities. This has been rising in the last few years in absolute terms, but it is shrinking in proportion to India’s GDP. It is noted that agri-trade in the total agri-GDP has slid…
The Government wants to diversify the agricultural markets to reduce over-reliance on the APMC system across India. For this various schemes and systems have been put in place. e-RaKAM: Rashtriya Kisan Agri Mandi or e-RaKAM brings together the farmers, PSUs, civil supplies and buyers on a single platform to ease the selling and buying process…
E-technology refers to the Internet and related information technologies. “Digital Agriculture”, a recently coined catchphrase, seems a misnomer – it actually refers to the use of digital technologies in managing the business of agriculture. ‘Digital Technologies in Agriculture’ is probably the more accurate narrative. There are three basic pillars for the digital empowerment of farmers…
Draft National Policy on Food Processing 2019: It aims to increase investment in the sector by six-fold by 2035. Promotion of cluster approach: strengthening and creation of integrated supply chain infrastructure to minimize wastages; Incentivize expansion and up-gradation of technology for processing and preservation, particularly for perishables; Increased institutional credit at an affordable cost for investment…
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Primary Secondary Tertiary Aimed at making food edible Turns ingredients into different forms with low-value addition. High-value addition can create a variety of food. Although such food is criticised for having too much sugar and salt…
Constitutional Provisions on Agriculture List II: Entry 14: Agriculture; [Thus markets are administered by the States]. Entry 26: (Trade and Commerce) and 27 (Production supply and distribution goods and services); Both subject to entry 33 of the concurrent list. List III: Entry 33 of List III: Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and…
Seed is the cheapest and basic input for sustained agricultural production. At the time of the release of a variety, a small quantity of seed normally known as nucleus seed is available with the plant breeder. The Commercial quantity of seed is produced after a series of multiplication steps. Starting from a maintenance programme in…