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With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with a cluster approach. 2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have a larger stake in this scheme. 3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro-irrigation equipment. Select the correct answer using the code given below.

With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with a cluster approach. 2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have a larger stake in this scheme. 3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro-irrigation equipment. Select the correct answer using the code given below. Correct Answer 1 and 2 only

The correct answer is 1 and 2 only.

  • Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millet Promotion (INSIMP) was launched by the central government in 2011-12 to promote millets as “Nutri-cereals”.
  • It aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies in an integrated manner with visible impact to catalyze increased production of millets in the country. Hence statement 1 is correct.
  • Technology demonstration kits of critical inputs of nutrients and plant protection measures comprising of micro-nutrients (not micro-irrigation equipment), fungicides and bio-fertilizers, DAP, urea, potash, and pesticides including weedicides at a total cost of Rs. 3,000/- per ha for sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet and Rs. 2,000/- per ha for small millets would be supplied to all the farmers in the units. It does not include micro-irrigation equipment. Hence statement 3 is incorrect.
    • These kits would be supplied free of cost to the beneficiary farmers subject to the maximum area of 2 hectares.
  • Certain districts with large crop areas under millets but with productivity less than that of the National Average Yield could be taken up for the active promotion of production technologies through block demonstrations.
    • In case of small millets, which have low productivity in general and are taken by resource-poor tribal farmers in remote interior areas, production programmes would be organized in all the identified districts irrespective of their productivity levels. Hence statement 2 is correct.

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