NABARD Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September – 4 October 2026

Component 1-B of PM-MKSSY meets the cost barrier by paying an eligible aquaculture farmer a one-time incentive of up to 40% of the insurance premium for one crop cycle, transferred directly to the bank account through the National Fisheries Digital Platform.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change handed over the first certificates under this scheme in New Delhi, and the certificate itself carries the name PRAMAAN.

The National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, which works under the Ministry of Rural Development, signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata for a four-year longitudinal study of roads built under PMGSY-IV and PM-JANMAN.

This is the full amount sanctioned for buying pulses and oilseeds at minimum support price in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana together for the kharif marketing season of 2026-27.

For marketing season 2027-28 the floor price of safflower was raised by Rs 675 a quintal, the biggest rupee increase among the six mandated rabi crops.

The new Act carries the same name with the new year and takes the place of the colonial-era statute, which was framed at a time when banking systems were entirely paper-based.

The correct answer is ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana, the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, which will carry out the two-year Phase-I of the project on alternatives to chemical fumigation in wheat and rice.

The consignment of frozen food products was flagged off from Sonipat in Haryana for the Canadian market, it was exported by Aterna Foods Producer Company Limited, and the Chairman of APEDA said at the event that he expected exports to Canada to grow further.

Silvio Erkens, the Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, held bilateral talks with the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in New Delhi, and the discussions covered the Centres of Excellence being set up in agriculture and horticulture, cooperation in the seed sector, market access and…

NABKISAN Finance Limited, a subsidiary of NABARD, placed India's first social bond meant only for water, sanitation and hygiene work, and investors bid for 1.8 times the paper on offer.

The target set under White Revolution 2.0 is to establish that many new cooperative dairies across the country, and alongside it to strengthen 46 thousand dairies that already exist.

The Ministry of Textiles is holding the special showcase of cotton sector reforms at Hyderabad in Telangana on 6 October 2026, and the event is run by the Cotton Corporation of India Ltd, a public sector undertaking of the ministry.

The claim process begins when the insured farmer informs the insurance company of the peril and submits the documents the policy requires; the insurer then appoints a loss assessor, the damage is evaluated and payment is made on that report, with status updates shown on the insurer portal.

The correct answer is the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation, which was certified for its plantations spread over 33,000 hectares after a field and management audit.

The study will examine that many rural roads, spread across ten States and Union Territories, fifty districts and one hundred and fifty blocks, with a household survey of roughly five thousand families to capture changes in mobility, accessibility and socio-economic conditions.

It was allotted Rs 3,992.57 crore of the sanction, the largest of the three state shares, almost all of it for tur: 4,66,000 metric tonnes worth Rs 3,937.70 crore, along with 6,250 metric tonnes of moong worth Rs 54.87 crore.

The expected return over the all-India weighted average cost of production works out to 106 per cent for wheat, the highest among the six mandated rabi crops of the season.

The backgrounder states plainly that the Act comes into force on that date and replaces the older law of the same name from then.

For decades these two have been the mainstay of post-harvest pest control in the country’s grain reserves, and their widespread, repeated use is what pushed pest resistance to 72 to 100 per cent in key states while raising fumigation cycles and costs.

The consignment comprised 2,295 boxes of frozen food products weighing 24 MT in all, and its declared shipment value was CAD 35,140, the currency being the Canadian dollar because the buyer is in Canada.

The two sides discussed the progress made on establishing twenty-five Centres of Excellence in the agriculture and horticulture sectors, and these centres are the main instrument through which Dutch expertise in horticulture and protected cultivation reaches Indian growers.

NABKISAN Finance Limited is a NABARD subsidiary, and the listing of the WASH bond was described as a step that strengthens the commitment of both NABARD and NABKISAN to new financing routes for rural development.

The Union Cooperation Minister digitally laid the foundation stone of a milk processing plant of 3 lakh litres a day there, to be built at a cost of 255 crore rupees.

It is the platform named as a key initiative of the showcase, and it carries the stages of a cotton purchase online: enrolling the grower, booking a slot, sending messages about the purchase and making payment through Aadhaar.

India is the second largest fish producing nation in the world with a share of about 8%, and its annual production touched a record 19.8 million tonnes in 2024-25.

Forest management under PRAMAAN is assessed against the Indian Forest Management Standard, and that standard is part of this Code, so certification is anchored in audited forest management rather than in a voluntary self-declaration by the producer.

The assessment is built in three stages. First comes the baseline or pre-construction survey lasting fourteen months, then a transition period of roughly twelve months, and finally the endline or post-construction survey lasting twenty-two months.

The sanction covers pulses and oilseeds only, and paddy is a cereal bought through a separate central pool arrangement rather than through the Price Support Scheme.

The rabi price revision for marketing season 2027-28 was described as being in line with the announcement made in that Budget, which set the benchmark of fixing a floor price at no less than one and a half times the all-India weighted average cost of production.

The Act allows the contents of a banker's book to be proved by a certified copy without producing the original, so an officer is not ordinarily compelled to appear, and it protects officers from routine appearance where the bank is not a party.