Which one among the following schemes focuses on developing modern infrastructure and optimizing supply chain from farm to retail in Indian agriculture sector?
- (a)Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY)
- (b)Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)
- (c)Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana (PMKMY)
- (d)Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY)
Correct — A, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). Sampada stands for the Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters, run by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. It is a package of component schemes — mega food parks, integrated cold chain and value addition infrastructure, creation and expansion of food processing capacity, agro-processing clusters, backward and forward linkages, and food safety infrastructure — whose stated purpose is to create modern infrastructure with efficient supply chain management from the farm gate to the retail outlet. That end-to-end farm-to-retail phrasing in the stem belongs to this scheme and to no other option here.
- (b)Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) — Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana is a state-plan flexible funding scheme that lets states choose agricultural investments to suit local priorities. It funds a wide range of activities but is not built around a farm-to-retail supply chain.
- (c)Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana (PMKMY) — Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana is a contributory old-age pension scheme for small and marginal farmers, paying a monthly pension from the age of sixty. It has nothing to do with infrastructure.
- (d)Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) — Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana promotes organic farming through cluster formation, certification and market linkage. Its subject is the method of cultivation, not processing and supply chain infrastructure.
Post-harvest losses in perishables are the problem this family of schemes addresses. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana, under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, bundles infrastructure components that together join the farm to the consumer: aggregation and primary processing near the farm, cold chain and controlled-atmosphere storage in the middle, and processing capacity and retail linkage at the far end. The logic is that a cold chain broken at any point wastes the investment in every other point, so the components are funded as one scheme.
One printed detail is worth flagging honestly. The paper prints the abbreviation PMKSY against Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana, whereas PMKSY is more usually seen for Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, the irrigation scheme. Both expansions are in circulation and the paper's usage is not an error of substance, but a candidate who reads only the initials could answer the wrong scheme entirely. Read the expanded name, not the abbreviation. Beyond that, this item is answered by matching the verb in the stem — developing infrastructure and optimising the supply chain — to the scheme whose components are all infrastructure.
- Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana is run by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
- Sampada expands to the Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters.
- Its components include mega food parks, integrated cold chain, agro-processing clusters, and backward and forward linkages.
- Its stated aim is modern infrastructure with efficient supply chain management from farm gate to retail outlet.
- The abbreviation PMKSY is also used for Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, the irrigation scheme, so read the full name.
- Answering from the abbreviation PMKSY, which is also used for the irrigation scheme.
- Confusing a pension scheme for farmers with an infrastructure scheme because both carry the word Kisan.
- Assuming Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana covers processing because it funds a wide range of state projects.
Asked as a scheme-identification item where the stem paraphrases the scheme's own objective and the distractors are other well-known agriculture schemes with different purposes.
With what purpose is the Government of India promoting the concept of "Mega Food Parks"? 1. To provide good infrastructure facilities for the food processing industry. 2. To increase the processing of perishable items and reduce wastage. 3. To provide emerging and eco-friendly food processing technologies to entrepreneurs. Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 1 and 2 only
- (c) 2 and 3 only
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(b) 1 and 2 only
Mega Food Parks is one of the component schemes inside Kisan Sampada, and its two accepted objectives — infrastructure for processing and reduced wastage of perishables — are the same objectives the umbrella scheme states for the whole chain.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana is administered by which ministry?
- (a)Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- (b)Ministry of Food Processing Industries
- (c)Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- (d)Ministry of Rural Development
Answer(b) Ministry of Food Processing Industries — Sampada is its umbrella infrastructure scheme.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which scheme provides a monthly pension to small and marginal farmers on attaining sixty years of age?
- (a)Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana
- (b)Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
- (c)Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana
- (d)Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
Answer(c) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana — a contributory pension scheme, not an infrastructure one.