UPSC GK Questions 2026

e-NAM was launched on 14 April 2016, the birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, as an online trading platform that links the regulated mandis of the States into one national market.

The Fair and Remunerative Price is the minimum price a sugar mill is legally bound to pay a cane grower, fixed by the Central Government on the recommendation of the CACP under the Sugarcane Control Order.

Under it, central nodal agencies, chiefly NAFED, buy pulses, oilseeds and copra at the Minimum Support Price when prices in the mandis fall below that level, and the losses are borne by the Government.

The Food Corporation of India was set up in 1965 under the Food Corporations Act of 1964, at a time of severe food shortage, to procure food grains, maintain buffer stocks, distribute grain through the public distribution system and keep prices stable for both the farmer and the consumer.

The Union Budget of 2018 announced that the Minimum Support Price would be kept at a level at least one and a half times the cost of production, and the cost used for that calculation is A2 plus FL, that is all paid-out expenses together with the imputed value of…

The C2 cost is the most comprehensive of the measures the Commission uses.

Set up in January 1965 as the Agricultural Prices Commission and renamed in 1985, it works under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

When the Government announced the rabi Minimum Support Prices for the marketing season 2021-22, it also published the margin of each price over the A2 plus FL cost of production.

The public distribution system was made targeted in 1997, when households were divided into those above and those below the poverty line and the subsidy was concentrated on the poorer group.

The Government of India announces a Minimum Support Price for twenty-two mandated crops on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.

It was founded in 1929 as the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Agriculture, has its headquarters at New Delhi and coordinates research, education and extension through a national network of institutes and agricultural universities.

Plantation agriculture is a type of commercial farming in which one crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane or banana is grown over a large area with hired labour, capital investment and a processing unit on or near the estate.

Pulses are leguminous plants whose roots carry nodules containing Rhizobium bacteria. These bacteria convert nitrogen from the air into compounds the plant can use, and part of that nitrogen stays in the soil after harvest, so the cereal that follows needs less fertiliser.

Operation Flood was the dairy development programme of the National Dairy Development Board that linked village milk producers' cooperatives to city markets and made India the largest milk producer in the world.

Jute is called the golden fibre because of its shining golden brown colour and the high export value it once commanded.

Podu is the local name for slash and burn or shifting cultivation in Andhra Pradesh, where a patch of forest is cleared, burnt and cropped for a few years and then left to recover while the cultivator moves to a fresh patch.

Black soil, also called regur or black cotton soil, covers much of the Deccan plateau and is formed from the weathering of lava.

The pink bollworm is the most damaging pest of the cotton plant.

In the colour coding of India's agricultural revolutions the Silver Fibre Revolution stands for cotton, the fibre crop of the black soil regions of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana.

Both are sown in October and November after the monsoon withdraws and harvested in March and April. Barley is a coarse cereal grown mainly in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, and gram is the most important rabi pulse of India, grown in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.