With reference to ‘Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion’,
which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies
and to demonstrate value-addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with a cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal, and tribal farmers havea larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro irrigation equipment.
Select the the correct answer using the code given below.
Explanation
The statement 1 is correct. The Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets
Promotion aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies in an
integrated manner with cluster approach.
Statement 2 is also correct. Millets are mainly grown in regions of low annual rainfall and poor
arid soil. It is poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers, who cannot afford costly irrigation
practices, depend on cultivation of millets. Hence these farmers benefit from the scheme and
have a larger stake in this scheme.
Statement 3 is not correct. There is no such provision of encouraging farmers of commercial
crops to shift to millet cultivation. Tikdam: 3rd statement is absurd. Why would any scheme want that. If it was for a specific region, it could still make some sense like instead of sugarcane, pulse or millets in maharashtra or pulses instead of rice and wheat in punjab, haryana