by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Agriculture
India is the world’s second-largest fish producer with exports worth more than ` 47,000 crore. Fisheries are the country’s single-largest agriculture export, with a growth rate of 6–10 per cent in the past five years. Realising the importance of fisheries in export...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Agriculture
A high-powered committee (HPC) of chief ministers for ‘Transformation of Indian Agriculture’ was set up by the prime minister on July 1, 2019. The HPC was set up subsequent to the deliberations of the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog and in keeping with the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Agriculture
The government in its first Cabinet meeting, in May 2019, extended the assured income support Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme for farmers to benefit over eight lakh big landholders countrywide—having a landholding size of 10 ha (nearly 25 acres)...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Agriculture
In order to address the gaps in the procurement system and the Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme, the Union Cabinet, in September 2018, approved a new umbrella scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan’ (PM-AASHA), a robust mechanism, to give a major...
by Spectrum | Jul 3, 2020 | Agriculture
The Modi government, on August 9, 2019, launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana (PM-KMY), a social-security programme, aimed at 120 million cultivators categorised as ‘small and marginal’ as they own less than two hectares of land. Eligible farmers can...
by Spectrum | Jul 3, 2020 | Agriculture
Being one of the largest producers of poultry in the world, India lacks a coherent poultry policy which now poses a serious threat to the survival and growth of the entire poultry sector. Concerns In April 2019, the Government of India permitted JBS, the largest...
