SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 19 of 95

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Which of these schemes is implemented to promote organic farming?

(a)PM-KMY (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana)
(b)PKVY (Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana)
(c)SHC (Soil Health Card Scheme)
(d)ATMA (Agricultural Technology Management Agency)

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana is the Centre's scheme for organic farming, launched in 2015-16 as a component of Soil Health Management under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture.

Farmers form clusters, receive support over three years to convert to organic practice, and certify their produce through PGS-India, a participatory peer-review system. That is option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
PM-KMY (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana) — PM-KMY is a pension scheme for small and marginal farmers. It secures income in old age and says nothing about how the land is farmed.
(c)
SHC (Soil Health Card Scheme) — The Soil Health Card tells a farmer the nutrient status of the soil and recommends fertiliser doses. It targets balanced nutrient use on any farm, not organic farming as such.
(d)
ATMA (Agricultural Technology Management Agency) — ATMA is a district-level agency for agricultural extension, carrying research and training to farmers. It spreads farm technology in general rather than promoting organic farming.

Concept

Farm schemes are easiest to hold by their one purpose.

Organic farming: PKVY across the country, and MOVCDNER for the North-East.
Old-age income: PM-KMY, a pension for small and marginal farmers.
Soil testing: the Soil Health Card.
Extension: ATMA at district level.

PKVY uses a cluster approach, with certification through PGS-India, a peer-review system in which farmers assess one another instead of a third-party certifier.

The stem asks which scheme is implemented to promote organic farming, so it is a purpose-matching question. The three wrong options are real schemes with other purposes.

Key facts

PKVY was launched in 2015-16 to promote organic farming.
PKVY is a component of Soil Health Management under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture.
PKVY produce is certified under PGS-India, a participatory guarantee system.
MOVCDNER is the separate organic-farming mission for the North-Eastern Region.

Study next

National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture and its componentsPGS-India versus third-party organic certificationPradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana and its slogan Har Khet Ko Pani

Common traps

Picking the Soil Health Card because organic farming is about soil, when the card only reports nutrients and recommends fertiliser doses.
Confusing PM-KMY, the farmers' pension, with PM-KISAN, the income-support transfer.

Organic farming appears as an NMSA aim at 17 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.4.
PKVY is a wrong option at 15 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.18, where the slogan Har Khet Ko Pani is keyed to the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana.

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