Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses Completes One Year

The correct answer is Rs 11,440 crore. The Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses was sanctioned with this allocation for the six years from 2025-26 to 2030-31, and the money pays for seed kits, certified seed, cluster-based cultivation in 489 districts and a thousand dal mills. Option A, Rs 7,047 crore, is wrong because that figure is the Minimum Support Price amount released directly to farmers by NCCF, not the Mission outlay. Option C, Rs 14,217 crore, is wrong because that is the MSP value paid out in Rabi 2026-27 procurement, again a purchase figure rather than the scheme allocation. Option D, Rs 6,431 crore, is wrong for the same reason: it is the worth of pulses bought in Kharif 2025-26. Only option B names the sanctioned outlay of the Mission itself, which is the figure asked for in the question.

The correct answer is 350 lakh tonnes. The Mission sets this as the production goal for 2030-31, to be reached with yield of 1,130 kg per hectare and a sown area taken up to 310 lakh hectares. Option A is wrong because 274.09 lakh tonnes is the output already achieved in 2025-26 on the third advance estimates, a starting point and not the target. Option B is wrong because 286.46 lakh hectares is the area under pulses in 2025-26, a measure of land and not of tonnage. Option D confuses the two measures as well: 310 lakh hectares is the area targeted for 2030-31, not the quantity of pulses to be harvested. Candidates should keep the three numbers separate, since paper setters often swap the area target and the production target.

The correct answer is NCCF and NAFED, that is the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited. Under the Mission they may buy the whole quantity of Tur, Masur and Urad offered by willing and registered farmers for four years, from 2025-26 to 2028-29, which gives growers an assured market at the Minimum Support Price. Option A is wrong because the Food Corporation of India and the Central Warehousing Corporation are not named as the procuring agencies for this Mission. Option C is wrong because NABARD is a development bank for agriculture and rural credit rather than a buyer of pulses. Option D is wrong because APEDA deals with export promotion of farm produce. Only option B names the two cooperative federations placed in charge of assured purchase.

The correct answer is the SATHI portal, which stands for Seed Authentication, Traceability and Holistic Inventory. It follows the seed through its life cycle across generations by automating the supply chain from seed production to certification and sale, so that farmers receive seed of verified quality. Option B is wrong because Krishi Mapper is a mobile application used for geo-fencing, land geo-tagging and real-time tracking of seed variety demonstrations and yields, not for seed certification records. Option C is wrong because Vistaar, like e-Samriddhi, is a verification platform meant for direct payments, live market data and price stability rather than seed traceability. Option D is wrong for the same reason. Remember SATHI with seed, Krishi Mapper with geo-tagging, and e-Samriddhi and Vistaar with payments and market information.