Farm Mechanisation 2 Flashcards
Aim of Agri Export policy is to double exports from?
Double Agri Exports: from $30 - $60 billion by 2022
India’s largest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) under SECI, MoNRE, is located in?
Rajnandgaon, Chattisgarh
India’s largest solar tree is located in? It is by?
Durgapur
By CSIR-CMERI
India’s installed renewable energy target wrt to the 2015 Paris Agreement is?
175 GW Renewable by 2022
Where, 100 (solar) + 60 (wind) + 10 (biomass) + 5 (small hydro) = 175 GW
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant is called, it’s located in?
Bhadla Solar Park
Rajasthan
India’s Largest Hybrid Renewable Energy Park is in?
Kutch, Gujarat
2nd largest solar park in India?
Shakti Sithala Solar Power Plant,
Tumakuru Karnataka
3rd largest solar park in India?
Ultra Mega Solar Park
Kurnool, AP
OSOWOG was launched whe and where?
in 2018
at the 1st ISA Assembly
Share of total primary energy coming from biomass is? Share of India’s population depending on it?
32%
>70%
National Policy for Management of Crop Residue was launched in?
2014
Estimated crop residue generated annually? Which state is the highest generator?
500 Mt
UP, followed by Punjab
When was the Crop Residue Management scheme for North India launched?
2018-19
Financial Assistance to farmers for purchasing machinery under Crop Residue Management Scheme is?
50%
Financial Assistance to Cooperative Societies, FPOs and Panchayats for establishing CHCs under Crop Residue Management Scheme is?
80%
When was The Crop Residue Management Scheme for North India, merged with SMAM then RKVY?
2022
Target year for blending 20% ethanol in petrol in National Policy on Biofuels
2025
National Policy on Biofuels was launched in?
2018
1st Gen biofuels use?
food sources like sugar, starch, vegetable oil
2nd generation Biofuels use?
Non-food crops like stems, husks
or Municipal Solid Waste
3rd Gen Biofuels use?
micro-organisms like algae
4th Gen biofuels are characterised by?
They are carbon negative
GMO crops with higher carbon intake —2nd gen tech—> Fuel—> geo-sequestered
Recommendation of Shant Kumar Committee for Grain Storage
- To implement Food Security Act - 61 MMT
- Create Strategic Reserve - 5 MMT
- Use as Forex Reserve sufficient for import - 3MMT wheat & 2MMT rice
Capacity of Traditional Storage type and improved storage type?
T = 1-50 tonnes
I = 1.5-150 tonnes
What is traditional type of storage aka?
12 types:
Morai, Bukhari, Kothar, Mud Kothi, Muda, Kanaj, Kuthla, Metal, Steel Bin, Bag
What does the word CAP mean in Grain Storage and its main purpose is?
CAP means Cover (top) and Plinth (bottom)
Open Storage suitable for Short transits
Silage is aka?
Storage fodder
Types of silos?
Deep (Vertical)
- Flat Bottom
- Hopper Bottom
Shallow (Squat)
Types of Farm Silos
2 types:
- Tower
- Horizontal - Pit & Trench
Storage structure used mostly in dairy farms can be surface level or below surface level?
Horizontal Silo
Spoilage of sillage in Horizontal Silo?
20-30%
A storage structure that’s a circular deep well, made in areas in with low water-table, lined on all sides, sealed from the bottom so that water may not rise into it.
Pit silos
An easily made storage structure, preferably built on sloping ground to facilitate drainage where walls are lined with bricks, concrete or cement with reinforcing wire mesh
Trench Silo
What is the difference between Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) & Controlled Atmosphere Packaging (CAP)?
MAP - fixed gas mixture (changes over time naturally)
CAP - Gas mixture can be adjusted as needed
The MAP is Fixed, the CAP can be Adjusted
NAFED - National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India - was lauched on?
2nd Oct 1958
Which nodal agency is responsible for implementing the price stabilizing measures under Operation Greens? Under which ministry is Operation Greens?
NAFED
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Under which scheme is Operation Greens (2018)?
PM Krishi Sampada Yojana - 2017 (PM KSY)
Ministry of Food Processing Industry
How many crops are under Operation Greens under PMKSY?
Initially TOP then in 2020,
all 22 perishable crops
Mega Food Park Project (2008) under PMKSY is being implemented by?
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
Registered under Companies Act
Scheme funded by World Bank & Centre, to help cottage industries, FPO & individual food processors, to bolster unorganised food processing sector by increasing capacity, upgrade technology, entrepreneurship development, etc.
Gram Samriddhi Yojana
Aim of Agri Export Policy 2018?
- Double Agri Exports: from $30 - $60 billion by 2022
- Enable farmers to get benefit of export opportunities in overseas market
- Representatives from ministries, agencies & state governments to oversee implementation of policy
- Promote ethnic, organic, traditional & non-traditional Agri-product exports
Under Scheme for Formalisation of micro food Processing Enterprises (FME), individual micro units get credit linked subsidy at ____ for project cost up to ____
Subsidy at 35%
For project cost up to Rs. 10 lakh
Under Scheme for Formalisation of micro food Processing Enterprises (FME), seed capital for SHGs as loan is?
Rs. 4 lakh per SHG
NIFTEM - National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship & Mangement is located in?
Haryana
IIFPT - Indian institute of Food Processing Technology is located in?
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
ICAR-CIPHET - Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology, is located in?
Ludhiana, Punjab
When was the SMAM scheme launched? How many parameters are there under the scheme?
2014-15
7 parameters
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), financial assistance provided for hiring of machinery?
40% to 50% depending on category of farmers
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), financial assistance provided for establishment of CHCs and Hi-tech hubs?
Upto 40%
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), financial assistance provided to cooperative societies, FPOs, panchayats for setting up Farmer Machinery Banks (FMBs) is? Also for NER?
80% of cost of FMB, upto 10 Lakh
95% of cost of FMB, upto 10 Lakh
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), financial assistance for Training and Demonstration is?
Training: Rs. 25 lakh
Demonstration: 100% at Rs 4000 per ha, upto Rs.100 per season
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), financial assistance to Farm Machinery Training to purchase drones and take up its demonstration?
100% assistance or Rs. 10 Lakh
Whichever is lower
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), financial assistance to FPOs for demonstration of drones?
75%
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), contingency expenditure provided to implementing agencies that do not want to purchase drones but will rent for demonstrations, from CHCs, Hi-tech hubs, drones, manufacturers, etc.
Rs. 6000 per ha
Under the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), Agriculture Graduates establishing CHCs are eligible to receive a financial assistance for drone purchases of?
50% of basic cost of drone
OR
Upto Rs.5 lakh in grant
Whichever is lower
Ministry of Civil Aviation and Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), have permitted drone operations through conditional exemption route of “Drone rules 2021”, published on?
25th Aug 2021
A farming machinery used for removing weeds between crop rows?
Cultivator
Which state has made rooftop rainwater harvesting compulsory to all houses?
Tamil Nadu
What kind of tiller is a happy seeder?
No-till planter
In North India, A happy seeder is used to?
To show wheat after paddy harvest
Depth of deep and ordinary ploughing?
Ordinary: 50cm - rarely exceeds 20 cm or 8 inch
Deep: >50cm (>20 inch)
Depth category of an indigenous plough is?
Ordinary
(<50cm)
Depth category of chisel plough?
Deep (>50cm)
At 60-70cm
Depth of water at the time of puddling? Depth of water after initial ploughing?
2.5 cm
5-10cm
World Biofuel Day?
10 Aug
Cono weeder is used for which crop and why?
Paddy
For weeding between rows of paddy crop
Which state has the max CHCs? CHCs should ideally be located within a radius of ____ kms of land holdings
Punjab
5-7 kms
A tractor mounted implement and depth of operation is controlled by hydraulic system. It is popular in black soils. This cultivator is mostly used in hard soils for shallow ploughing. identify
Duck Foot Cultivator
Theme of OSOWOG?
The sun never sets
Krishi Yantradharee Driver App that allows drivers to complete bookings transparently from CHCs to S&M Farmers at the hobli level is from state?
Karnataka
1st milking machine patent was to?
Anna Baldwin
Power operated paddy transplanter being manufactured in India by?
Mitsubishi Ltd
Pyrolysis, producing liq fuels in agri fields, is done through ____ energy
Biomass energy
thermochemical process