“From both economic and environmental standpoints, cultivation of pulses make sense.” Explain.

Keeping  both environment and economic point of view .Main contributions of pulses to indian agricultural and economic development are as fallows. Pulses are rich in proteins and found to be main source of protein to vegetarian people of India.2. It ..

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"While Green Revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains, it has also led to many unintended ecological and socioeconomic repercussions in the country". Do you agree? Discuss with the help of examples.

Green revolution has always been considered as one of the biggest achievement in the field of food production. It is referred as a situation wherein there is quantum jump in production of food grain with the use of high yielding ..

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While establishing "access to food" as a crucial link between food security and climate change, provide contours of India's stand on food security in WTO.

India’s strong stand on food security at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has threatened to derail the first multilateral trade agreement reached in the last two decades. Developed countries have complained that India is going back on its promise made ..

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Mention the advantages of cultivation of pulses because of which the year 2016 was declared as International year of Pulses by the United Nations.

The 68th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has declared year 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (IYP). Objective of IYP was to increase the public awareness about the nutritional protein power and health benefits of pulses as part of ..

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As per latest Global Hunger Index (GHI), India is ranked 100th out of 119 countries. What steps do you think should be taken to improve India's ranking?

The global hunger index not only considers calories intake but it also considers child wasting (low weight for height), stunting (lower height than typical for age) and under-5 mortality within the definition of hunger.  As per recent Global Hunger Index ..

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Despite of increased output and productivity, there is a demand –supply gap in the oilseeds in India, particularly in Edible oils. While analyzing the reasons, discuss the steps that should be taken to address the issue.

India is one of the largest oilseeds producers, despite that fact, India is unable to meet its domestic edible oil requirements. Due to huge Demand supply gap, there is import dependency in case of edible oils. Presently, India is world’s ..

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