Ans: A

Exp:

Statement 1 is incorrect: The Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) is a sub-scheme of the Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) and is implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. Its focus is on enhancing storage capacity in rural areas, not specifically urban areas.

Statement 2 is incorrect: The government provides subsidy rates of 25% and 33.33% based on the category of the eligible beneficiary, not a uniform rate of 30%.

Statement 3 is correct: The scheme offers assistance to a variety of beneficiaries, including Individuals, Farmers, Group of farmers/growers, Agripreneurs, Registered Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs), Cooperatives, and state agencies.

Ans: B

Exp:

Statement 1 is incorrect: The Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) is a Rs. 1,00,000 Crore fund designed to provide medium-long term loan facilities for investment in viable projects for post-harvest market infrastructure. All loans under this financing facility have an interest subvention of 3% per annum up to a limit of Rs.2 crore, and this subvention is available for a maximum period of 7 years.

Statement 2 is correct: AIF provides financial support for post-harvest management projects like Warehouses, Cold Chains, Silos, etc. Beneficiaries include Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), Startups, Agri-entrepreneurs, and several other entities.

Ans: A

Exp:

Statement 1 is incorrect: 100% FDI is permitted in Animal Husbandry through the automatic route, which includes activities like breeding of dogs, fish farming, and aquaculture under controlled conditions.

Statement 2 is correct: The “Prime Minister’s AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan” introduced a stimulus package that highlighted the creation of the Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) with an allocation of Rs.15,000 crore. The main aim of this fund is to enhance milk and meat processing capabilities, diversify products, increase farmers’ price realization, promote exports, and augment the export contribution of the livestock sector.

Ans: D

Exp:

The One District One Product (ODOP) initiative is designed to foster balanced regional development by selecting, branding, and promoting at least one unique product from every district in India. This approach ensures that each district, irrespective of its current economic status, gets an opportunity for holistic socioeconomic growth. As per the initiative, 1102 products have been identified from 761 districts across the nation.

Ans: B

Exp:

Statement 1 is incorrect, Statement 2 is correct: It is an application that will enable sms messages to be read out loud, for the benefit of farmers who may have difficulty in reading. It is usable by people who cannot read. A large population of farmers belongs to this category. So, when they receive an SMS message either containing agriculture-related advice or some other thing, this app will read aloud the content.

Statement 3 is correct: The Sandesh Pathak application developed jointly by C-DAC Mumbai, IIT-Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, and C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram. Sandesh Pathak is an Indian language SMS Reader. It captures incoming sms and reads it aloud. Currently it supports eight Indian languages (viz. Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam & Kannada) and three flavours of Indian English ( English-Hindi, English-Tamil & English-Telugu). There are options to select language and select speed of voice (normal, slow, slower, fast, faster). Users may adjust the speed of voice as per suitability.