Explain the role of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India.
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13 questions on Farm Subsidies, MSP & PDS from GS-III. Practice answer writing organized by UPSC syllabus subtopics.
13
Questions
4
Subtopics
10
Years
Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System — objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing.
Number of questions asked each year
Explain the role of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India.
Elucidate the importance of buffer stocks for stabilizing agricultural prices in India. What are the challenges associated with the storage of buffer stock? Discuss.
What are the direct and indirect subsidies provided to farm sector in India? Discuss the issues raised by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in relation to agricultural subsidies.
What are the major challenges of Public Distribution System (PDS) in India? How can it be made effective and transparent?
What are the salient features of the National Food Security Act, 2013? How has the Food Security Bill helped in eliminating hunger and malnutrition in India?
What are the reformative steps taken by the Government to make the food grain distribution system more effective?
What do you mean by Minimum Support Price (MSP)? How will MSP rescue the farmers from the low income trap?
How do subsidies affect the cropping pattern, crop diversity, and economy of farmers? What is the significance of crop insurance, minimum support price, and food processing for small and marginal farmers?
Given the vulnerability of Indian agriculture to vagaries of nature, discuss the need for crop insurance and bring out the salient features of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY).
Livestock rearing has a big potential for providing non-farm employment and income in rural areas. Discuss, suggesting suitable measures to promote this sector in India.
In what way could replacement of price subsidy with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) change the scenario of subsidies in India? Discuss.
Food Security Bill is expected to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in India. Critically discuss various apprehensions in its effective implementation along with the concerns it has generated in WTO.
What are the different types of agriculture subsidies given to farmers at the national and at state levels? Critically analyse the agricultural subsidy regime with reference to the distortions created by it.
13 questions on Farm Subsidies, MSP & PDS have appeared in GS-III from 2013 to 2024.
The UPSC syllabus subtopics under Farm Subsidies, MSP & PDS include: Farm subsidies and minimum support prices (6 questions); Public Distribution System — objectives, functioning, limita (2 questions); Buffer stocks and food security (4 questions); Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing (1 questions).
In the most recent years: 2024 (2 questions), 2023 (1 questions), 2022 (1 questions). This shows Farm Subsidies, MSP & PDS remains a consistently important topic for GS-III.
Focus on high-frequency subtopics: Farm subsidies and minimum support prices, Public Distribution System — objectives, functioni, Buffer stocks and food security. Practice answer writing with previous year questions.