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Agricultural Development - Short Trick

Revolutions, land reform, irrigation and fertiliser, credit and insurance, MSP and PDS, farm institutions — one sentence each

4 trick sentences9 pairs6 parts
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How to read
  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Output, the Green Revolution and the Coloured Revolutions

Where India is first and second in the world, the foodgrain split, the Green Revolution’s elements, the BGREI states, farm growth in the Plans and what each revolution stands for.

Trick 1

India in the world — first and second

⇄ Any order

FirstRita and Mini put spices in the juice.

SecondWendy’s super cool granny flew.

  1. Rice
  2. Milk
  3. Pulses
  4. Spices
  5. Jute
  6. Wheat
  7. Sugarcane
  8. Cotton
  9. Groundnut
  10. Fruit and vegetables

India is third in tea · third in total food-crop output (after China and the United States) · except for groundnut, every major crop’s yield per hectare is still below the world average.

Trick 2

Foodgrain (357 MMT) — the split

➜ largest first

Rita washed Maya’s mittens.

  1. 1Rice150 MMT
  2. 2Wheat117
  3. 3Maize43
  4. 4Millets18

Pulses 25.68 · oilseeds 43 · sugarcane 454 MMT · horticulture 362 MMT — ahead of foodgrain for the first time · agriculture’s share: 15.2% of GVA, 46.1% of jobs, 11.2% of exports.

Trick 3

Three basic elements of the Green Revolution

➜ in order

Ekta doubled her income.

  1. 1Expanding the farmed area
  2. 2Double-cropping (two crops on the same land)
  3. 3Improved (high-yielding) seeds

After 1965, improved seed, fertiliser and irrigation came together · its drawbacks — overuse of fertiliser and pesticide, falling soil nutrients and groundwater, rising input costs.

Trick 4

Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) — the states

⇄ Any order

Chhotu rode Uttam’s bike west carrying Asha’s jhola to the Ola stand.

  1. Chhattisgarh
  2. Eastern Uttar Pradesh
  3. Bihar
  4. West Bengal
  5. Assam
  6. Jharkhand
  7. Odisha

BGREI began in 2010-11 under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) — better use of resources to speed up foodgrain output in the eastern states.

Pairs

Agriculture in the Five-Year Plans

2 sentences

The third class scored the lowest and the eighth class the highest.

Third Plan (1961-66) · Eighth Plan (1992-97)=Lowest farm growth — the 3rd Plan (0.73%), even though IADP and HYVP began in it · highest — the 8th Plan (4.68%, favourable weather)

Six years on the fields turned green again.

Sixth Plan (1980-85)=1983-84 is called the year of the "Second Green Revolution" · growth 2.52%

1st Plan (1951-56) — the food crisis came first, over 14% of plan spending went to agriculture, growth 2.71% · 4th Plan (1969-74) — planned use of science and technology, 4.16% · 12th Plan — target 4%.

Pairs

Coloured revolutions — what each stands for

7 sentences

White milk in a glass

White Revolution=Milk and dairy products

A blue sea full of fish

Blue Revolution=Fisheries

Yellow mustard gives cooking oil.

Yellow Revolution=Edible oil

Pink prawns and meat on a plate

Pink Revolution=Prawns and meat processing

Golden honey drips.

Golden Revolution=Honey

Golden fibre makes a jute sack and silver fibre makes a cotton shirt.

Golden Fibre Revolution · Silver Fibre Revolution=Golden fibre — jute · silver fibre — cotton

Silver hens lay eggs.

Silver Revolution=Egg and poultry

Two names carry "golden" — Golden (honey) and Golden Fibre (jute); and two carry "silver" — Silver (eggs) and Silver Fibre (cotton). Hear "fibre" and think jute or cotton.

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Land, Land Records and Seeds

The four parts of land reform, the three principles of land records, the SVAMITVA scheme and the farmer’s seed rights.

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3

Irrigation, Mechanisation and Fertiliser

The four parts of PMKSY, the seven Atal Bhujal states, and the fertiliser, soil and drone schemes.

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4

Credit, Insurance and Marketing

The three tiers of co-operative credit, the Kisan Credit Card, crop-insurance premiums, e-NAM and the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund.

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5

Farmer Income, MSP and Food Security

PM-KISAN, Maan-Dhan, Dhan-Dhaanya, the KUSUM components, who does what for the MSP, the commercial crops, the PDS timeline and the NFSA.

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Farm Institutions, Missions and Allied Sectors

When each institution was set up and what it does, the oilseed mission’s crops, the Digital Agriculture Mission’s pillars and the poultry centres.

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