"Despite of heavy public expenditure on canals, our governments have not been able to reduce the groundwater depletion."Critically examine the issue.

Hint: The key reason is widening gap between irrigation potential created and actually utilized. The gap is increasing because of several reasons such as slow pace of CAD works depletion of professional staff in state irrigation agencies paucity of non ..

Discuss the key recommendations of Shanta Kumar Committee in restructuring of FCI.

Hint: FCI should transfer all procurement functions to states where the states have considerable experience and infrastructure. Such states include Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Punjab. In these states, FCI’s procurement should be only of surplus than ..

What do you understand by Command Area? Objectively differentiate between Gross Command Area and Cultural Command Area.

The command area refers to the area adjacent to the dam or water projects. The area receives ample benefits from the water available in the storage. The facilities include irrigation, flood control, electricity generation, etc. Command areas are irrigated from ..

To what extent, it is justified to call Green revolution as an agriculture revolution? Examine.

Hint: It was not a true revolution in the sense that it was confined to few crops, few people, few states and few regions only. No substantial increase in production and productivity of pulses was achieved, despite the fact that ..

The soul of any government scheme lies in its implementation. With this reference, critically discuss the drawbacks of Command Area Development Programme and Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP).In your view , how the recently launched Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana addresses these issues? Discuss.

The gap between IPC and IPU does not allow us to get maximum agricultural output. Despite heavy expenditure, the difference between IPC and IPU keeps a major part of India to be single crop area. The CAD and AIBP schemes ..

What do understand by Contract Farming? Discuss the provisions made in APMC act for promotion of Contract Farming in India.

Model Answer: Contract farming is an agreement between processing and / or marketing firms for production support at production support at predetermined prices. This stipulates that Farmer is committed to provide a specific commodity in terms of quality & quantity ..

What do you understand by operational land holding? Discuss various types of Land Holdings in India.

Model Answer: An operational land holding is a techno-economic land unit used wholly or partly for agricultural production and operated (directed/managed) by one person alone or with the assistance of others, without regard to title, size or location. A operation ..

What do you understand by Command Area Development? Why successive governments have failed in Command Area Development?

The command area refers to the area adjacent to the dam or water projects. The area receives ample benefits from the water available in the storage. The facilities include irrigation, flood control, electricity generation, etc. Command areas are irrigated from ..

Rather than import parity price (IMPP); the Gas Price Pooling Policy seems to be a better deal for Urea Manufacturers. Do you agree with this view? Discuss.

Hint: Yes. I agree with this view. The Gas Price Pooling seeks to change the industry dynamics in Urea sector by leveling gas costs for all players.  Earlier, the situation was that every plant needed make its own arrangement / ..

To what extent New Urea Policy 2015 is able to address the skewed use of fertilizers in the country. Discuss citing key features of this policy.

Hint: The new Urea Policy is mostly about making energy efficiency norms tighter for fertilizer units. What the government has done is to link their incentives with the annual energy consumption and prompted them go for most energy-efficient technologies to ..