Differentiate between Straight, Complex and Mixed Fertilizers. Briefly explain the use of various chemical fertilizers in Indian Agriculture.

Hint: Straight fertilizers supply only one primary plant nutrient, either N or P or K. Example Ammonium Sulphate (AS), Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN), Ammonium Chloride and Urea. Complex fertilizers provide two or three primary nutrients in which nutrients of at ..

What are Foundation Seeds, Breeders Seeds and Certified Seeds? Examine the importance of Breeder's seeds in seed development and multiplication.

Hint: Breeder seed is produced in isolation from nucleus seed by a certified breeder. Foundation seed is the offspring of the Breeder seed which can be clearly traced to Breeder seed. The offspring of foundation seed , further certified is ..

What are buffer norms and Buffer stocks? Why they are needed?

Hint: The Buffer norms are the minimum food grains the Centre should have in the Central pool at the beginning of each quarter to meet requirement of public distribution system and other welfare measures. They are needed to Feed TPDS ..

Discuss the need and importance of Soil Health Card. Evaluate the progress done by government in Soil Health Card scheme so far.

Hint: Soil deterioration due to mindless use of chemical fertilizers, unwise distortion of NPK ratio due to many reasons including subsidy regime; low use of organic matter and non-replacement of depleted micro and secondary nutrients in the soil and consequent ..

Discuss the key thrust areas of National Seed Policy and seed bill in India

Seed development policy was introduced in India in 1988, to remove the roadblocks in the import of horticultural seeds and to allow the import of a limited quantity of seeds of course cereals, pulses, and oilseeds. After that the National ..

Discuss various phases of Green revolution and their impacts on social economy of India.

The Green Revolution is the period when the Indian agriculture sector was transformed into an industrial system after the adoption of modern scientific methods and techniques like using high yielding variety seeds, modern agricultural equipment, upgraded irrigation facilities, high-quality pesticides, ..

“In the resource constrained and dry areas, the farming is a survival mechanism rather than a growth oriented activity.”With this reference bring out various problems faced by farmers in Rainfed Areas

Agriculture in India has been practiced since the time of the Indus Valley Civilization. The rank of India is second in terms of the total farm output. About 50% of India’s population is associated with the agricultural sector that contributes ..

What do you understand by Food Insecurity? Differentiate between Chronic and Transitory Food Insecurity.

Hint: Food insecurity exists when people lack sustainable physical or economic access to enough safe, nutritious, and socially acceptable food for a healthy and productive life. Food insecurity may be chronic, seasonal, or temporary. Nutritional consequences of insufficient food or ..

“The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act 2001 not only gives intellectual property protection to the plant breeders, but also upholds the legal space for farmers to save, use, exchange and sell the farm saved seeds.”Discuss citing salient features of the act.

The Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, 2001 was enacted by the act of the Parliament of India that intended to establish an effective system for the protection of varieties of plants, rights of farmers and plant breeders. ..

First Green Revolution ran out of steam mainly because it was focused only on grain production, with this context; present a conceptual framework upon ushering India into Second Green revolution.

Hint: First Green Revolution did not help the dry land farming and it was not scale neutral and thus helped only large farmers. The call for second green revolution focuses on these issues by adopting a different strategy to follow. ..