Agriculture: Overview of Data and Major Crops

[ word=”650″] Model Questions Prelims MCQ Topics Gross Cropped Area and Net Cropped Area, The share of agriculture in GDP of India, Share of agriculture in GCF (Gross Capital Formation), Current Growth Trends in Indian Agriculture, Issues with Agricultural Productivity, ..

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  1. anand4upsc

    September 23, 2015 at 10:04 am

    sir, i was trying to answer the questions , what should be the word limit ?

    • Suresh Soni

      September 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm

      Hello Anand, The typical questions coming in exams are 200 words answers.

  2. arvind0308

    September 23, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    Sir, how we can identify that our answer writing is in correct way or not?

    • Suresh Soni

      September 24, 2015 at 10:27 am

      Arvind, I have done a test series last year and was able to correct some 700 answer sheets. Based on that experience will write to your group how to go about it.

  3. ahmed786

    September 23, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    Sir one general question…
    Sir who fix the rate of Sugarcane per ton… Should farmers abide the rate fixed by Govt/A Corporate body…?
    & Why there is pending of bill by Sugar factories…. Does Govt has no responsibility to remove grievance of farmers….
    Due to pending of Bills many farmers attempted/committed Suicide…

    Sir please explain…. This question may be silly but felt like asking….

    • Suresh Soni

      September 24, 2015 at 10:25 am

      Hello Ahmed,
      The FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price ) is fixed by Centre (CCEA) on recommendation of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) after taking into consideration the margins for sugarcane farmers, based on the cost of production of sugarcane, including the cost of transportation. States fix SAP (State Advised Price). Usually states like UP fix this price above the FRP. So problem in that state is not for farmers but for the sugar factories. So, you don’t find much distress in sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh. Currently, most sugarcane farmers suicides are happening in Karnataka I think.
      The major issue of conflict of interest between government and industry. Governments want to keep rates higher to support farmers that is good. But then, who will buy sugarcane? Its industry which will buy at price mandated by the Government. They will buy it , but what if they have no money to immediately pay? So payments go into arrears and arrears keep piling up. I hope you got the issue.

  4. ahmed786

    September 24, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    Ok Sir…

    Thanx for explaining.. Sir

  5. ahmed786

    September 24, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    Sir One more question just arise… Plz make it clear…..

    Sir Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) has any Constitutional Status….? or is just appointed by Centre to come up with a general consensus for fixing prices….

    • Suresh Soni

      September 24, 2015 at 12:43 pm

      It is neither constitutional nor a statutory body. It was established by on the basis of recommendations of LK Jha committee (aka. Foodgrains Price Commitee) in 1965 and at that time it was called Agricultural Prices Commission. It was later renamed as CACP in 1985. This is discussed in next module.

  6. dksharma

    September 24, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    Sir, one more question…

    In your module one, you have mentioned the percentage of vegetarians as 42 or somewhere near.
    How did you get these figures?
    I think in Census blank form, there was no mention of food habits of individuals.

    • Suresh Soni

      September 24, 2015 at 6:30 pm

      Hello,
      This is not a Census figure, its an NSSO figure rather. The particular numbers in my document appear from this article, which is one of many which I used to write this module.

    • dksharma

      September 24, 2015 at 6:36 pm

      Thnk u sir

  7. ramsmca0609

    September 25, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    Sir, I want some clarification on “India’s Agricultural Imports” section in this module. Since edible oil is mentioned as largest import in above section, can we read in this section as import and not export and any other corrections needed here?

    • Suresh Soni

      September 25, 2015 at 4:11 pm

      Hello,
      On Page-11 its a correction; export was typo (its import). Please check the document should show correction.

  8. dksharma

    September 25, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    Sir,
    Regarding sugarcane industry, in the graphics you have shown the comparison after and before rangrajan committee and govt decisions. Just below the graphics, “abolition of the levy system” is mentioned, but it is not crossed/marked in after April 2013 scenario. is it because it has been abolished for 2 years or some other reasons?
    Please clarify.

  9. dksharma

    September 26, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Sir,
    Where can we post general questions or doubts?

    plz tell

  10. maheep2005

    September 26, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    Sir
    What will be answer for Pulses?
    1) Rabi 2) Kharif 3) Zaid

    • Suresh Soni

      October 1, 2015 at 11:49 am

      Hello Maheep, pulses are grown in Rabi , Kharif as well as Zaid seasons. Gram, pea, Khesari and lentil constitute the major rabi pulses, while redgram, blackgram, greengram, horsegram and moth comprise the Kharif pulses. The area as well as production is more in case of Kharif Pulses. Moong and urad are also grown as Zaid Crops.

    • maheep2005

      October 1, 2015 at 7:36 pm

      Sir my question is if pulses is given in option i think one question already asked UPSC in which pulses was mentioned in question.

  11. maheep2005

    September 26, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    I have doubt regarding sesame, as per your module it is Rabi but i think it is kharif crop because i saw it grown in July/aug periods.

  12. maheep2005

    September 26, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    Coarse Cereal include which crops?

  13. maheep2005

    September 26, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    In module it is mentioned that In 1966, India imported high yield varieties of wheat from use during Green Revolution. My question is which other crops seeds (other than wheat )also imported by India during same period.

    • Suresh Soni

      September 29, 2015 at 8:00 pm

      Hello Maheep, 18,000 tons of HYV wheat seeds were imported from Mexico; and at that time, I believe only wheat was brought from Mexico. Along with this some other such as IR-8 of rice was imported from IRRI but that rice was not suitable for Indian environment.

  14. maheep2005

    September 29, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    That means sir if both options (Rice & wheat) is mentioned in answer choice, answer will be wheat only.

    • Suresh Soni

      September 29, 2015 at 8:07 pm

      I think this fact does not make any sensible objective question.

  15. maheep2005

    September 29, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    But sir one line option may be asked in correct / incorrect type question.

  16. dksharma

    September 29, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    Sir,
    On page 12, it is mentioned that Brown rice is rich in some vitamins mainly Thiamine and B1.

    But vitamin B1 and thiamine are both same, I guess.
    Is it a typo?

    • Suresh Soni

      October 1, 2015 at 9:35 am

      Hello, Yes it was error. It could be Thiamine (B1) and others.

  17. sneh.prabha

    October 5, 2015 at 11:47 am

    Brown rice is rich in Vitamin B1, B6 & Vitamin C (water soluble).

  18. ravimjpr

    October 6, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    Sir can we have a graph of agriculture growth with five year plan? so it will be good I think to write in this way

  19. ravimjpr

    October 7, 2015 at 1:38 pm

    Sir regarding question no 4 ..service sector outperformed agriculture exports ..to answer this question I think we need to understand how it outperformed agriculture exports ..can we have data and detailed explanation to this?

    • Suresh Soni

      October 7, 2015 at 1:44 pm

      We are moving toward that direction →Manufacturing, followed by Service Sector, followed by Public Finance and Government Budgeting in milestone-1

  20. ravimjpr

    October 7, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    Sir regarding question no 6 ..exactly what we have to right I mean right way to write this answer ?

    • Suresh Soni

      October 8, 2015 at 6:19 pm

      Different rice cropping patterns mentioned on page-15.

  21. Sravyasri

    October 9, 2015 at 6:30 am

    Sir there is problem in downloading.that link is not opening.plz help

  22. varunias2016

    October 9, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    Hi Gktoday Team,
    I am unable to download pdf for module1, while downloading it terminates in between.

    Please solve this issue .

    Thanks
    Varun

    • Suresh Soni

      October 11, 2015 at 12:04 am

      Hello Varun, Please take a screenshot and share that to [email protected] . In my side, i don’t see any error in error logs.

  23. monojdas.prep

    October 13, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    What is ‘institutional’ credit? can you please elaborate.

    • Suresh Soni

      October 13, 2015 at 7:30 pm

      Hello Manoj,
      Institutional credit is credit from banks, cooperatives and other such financial institutions. This is opposite to credit from private money lenders.

  24. ravimjpr

    October 14, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    Sir regarding Rangrajan recommandation on sugrcane
    I could not understand three points clearly
    1.export and import policy ( what was the quantative control and export quotas.)
    2In past how they controlled molasses and free up power cells
    3.cane area reservation
    4 what is the rationalisation of cane pricing policy
    Sir just simple explanation so I can understand this

  25. alkarawat

    October 15, 2015 at 9:27 am

    sir i am unable to download any link…

    • Suresh Soni

      October 15, 2015 at 10:51 am

      Hello Alka,
      Please check the link or blue download button image below model questions in every document.

  26. pranjal

    October 15, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    Dear sir some download link are not working

    • Suresh Soni

      October 16, 2015 at 12:45 pm

      Hello Pranjal, which download link is not working please write here.

  27. Captcha

    October 29, 2015 at 3:41 am

    Unable to download 4 docs: Modules 1,2, 3 and also the worksheet of Agriculture

    • Suresh Soni

      October 29, 2015 at 12:19 pm

      Hello Captcha, please try now.

  28. Captcha

    October 29, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    It worked. Thanks Sir!

  29. success2016

    October 29, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    Sir, unable to download this module…can you help me out

    • Suresh Soni

      October 30, 2015 at 8:15 am

      please refresh the page and try again.

  30. IAS

    November 3, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    SIR , UNABLE TO DOWNLOADING …..

  31. iascracker2016

    November 5, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    Hello sir,
    Could you please tell me whether I have to follow the GS manuals of 2014, or will those be revised in near future ?
    Subjects like Ancient History wont be changing I guess, So can I safely start my preparation from old books ?.

    • Suresh Soni

      November 5, 2015 at 3:49 pm

      Hello, minimum changes will occur in history and geography documents. Max changes are in economy documents which shall be finished in next few days. Whatever is new in history part will come as new document only. So, please leave economy part.

  32. ssaurabh0711

    November 5, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Hello
    Indian Agriculture-1,2,3 download link not active…

    • Suresh Soni

      November 5, 2015 at 4:20 pm

      Hello Saurabh, Kindly refresh

  33. srikanthkln87

    November 6, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    hello sir, the hyper link of “download link” is not active

  34. iascracker2016

    November 9, 2015 at 11:00 pm

    Hello Sir,

    I’m thankful that these new documents are made in kindle-friendly format. But the GS manuals 2014 are having some font encoding issues. When I open in Kindle, I see strange characters coming in.

    Even on laptop, I cant even search for any text in the main topic, apart from the dialog boxes where the font is different. Little bit of googling helped me figure out the problem is with font-mapping in the pdf. Probably font of main content is not mapped properly.

    Is there any viable option for accessing the manual content on kindle ?
    Or at least, Can I get the fonts used in the document, which might help me to solve that font-mapping issue ?

    And when we are provided with new manuals, please try to minimise usage of icons for bullet points. Kindly try to use default icons ( circle, numbers etc ) instead.

    • Suresh Soni

      November 9, 2015 at 11:54 pm

      Hello, previously we used to work on ms word so many fonts I used. Click control + d on file to see what fonts are there in particular file. The current format has only 5 font and is more tab friendly. looking forward to making it mobile friendly.

  35. shameellamba

    November 25, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    Sir, there is no download option.

    • Suresh Soni

      November 26, 2015 at 8:15 pm

      It must be working now.

    • shameellamba

      November 26, 2015 at 8:55 pm

      Yes Sir. It is working. Thank You.

  36. rupindersidhu

    November 29, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    Sir…aftet downloading file is not opening…please help

  37. Traun

    December 3, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    Sir..Please Explain what do you mean by GI-Tag, as there was an information in the document regarding Darjeeling Tea is the 1st Indian product to be rewarded ?

  38. Traun

    December 3, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    Many Thanks Sir..

  39. ajaymotog

    December 22, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Not Able to Download this Module —please help

    • Suresh Soni

      December 22, 2015 at 4:36 pm

      Hello Ajay, Are you able to see the download link? Please revert.

  40. ajaymotog

    December 22, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    Sir….now problem resolved..

  41. ajaymotog

    December 22, 2015 at 7:28 pm

    Sir , will you update these pdfs once data and figures mentioned in them changes or any new event occurs??

    • Suresh Soni

      December 23, 2015 at 7:13 pm

      Hello Ajay, If there is a major update like adding new content, you will be notified. Minor changes can be done when some spelling / grammar issues are corrected.

  42. iascracker2016

    December 23, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    Hello Sir,
    One statement says ….
    27% of Total population = Agril workers as per 1951 census and that marginally came down to 21.7 % as per 2011 census ..
    But usually we say 60% of people dependent on Agriculture but they contribute ~18% of GDP..

    Aren’t the statements contradictory ?.

    • Suresh Soni

      December 23, 2015 at 7:12 pm

      I have written: The above data also demystifies the false notion that half of India’s population is involved in agriculture. Its a myth actually. The fact is that 54 per cent of total workers and 42% of rural workers is still part of the agriculture sector but they are not all farmers or cultivators.

  43. Kalbhaishaki

    February 3, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    Hi Sir,
    I suppose this file Indian Agriculture-1 is corrupted. I am not able to download. Can you please look into this.
    Thanks

    • Suresh Soni

      February 3, 2016 at 6:06 pm

      Please check now. R u able to download the complete file or downloading is dying mid-way. Please reply.

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