What measures have been taken by the government to tackle spike in onion prices?

To tackle the increasing price of onions the government has taken measures such as imposing of a minimum export price (MEP) of $850/tonne, followed by a central team of bureaucrats visiting Lasalgaon which is India’s largest wholesale market of onions, ..

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What are the roles and functions of the Farmers Producers Organisations?

Farmer Producers Organizations are actually a type of farmer-owned institutions with legal backing. They are comprised of the farmers, weavers, milk-men, craftsmen, artisans, etc in the rural sectors who have shared interests and concerns. Thus, rural producers come together on ..

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While analyzing the threats caused by Agri-piracy and Bio-piracy on Indian Economy, discuss the taken so far as well as proposed measures towards handling these threats.

Piracy refers to the use of intellectual property systems to legitimize the exclusive ownership and control over biological resources and biological products and processes that have been used over centuries in non-industrialized culture”. India facing problem with Bio piracy and ..

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What are the ecological and economical challenges faced by Indian agriculture today? Discuss critically.

The major environment challenges faced by Indian agriculture include how to conserve our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity and how to make agriculture sustainable. Farming is sensitive to short term and long term climate changes. Both ..

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Agriculture sector cannot become resilient unless various risks in agriculture are reduced, profitability is increased and stable income flows to farmers is ensured. Enumerate various reforms in agriculture India needs towards these issues.

Agriculture has a major role to play in the growth of Indian economy as it employs around half of the workforce and is important for food security, source of raw material to many agro based industries. Government aims to double ..

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What do you understand by the so called trade distorting subsidies? What is India's stance on such subsidies? Discuss while highlighting India's recent activities in WTO regarding these.

Trade distorting subsidies as per World Trade Organisation are those subsidies given by state that distort the trade severely. For instance agricultural subsidies in the form of Minimum support price which are provided for food security and securing livelihood of ..

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