- Elucidate the importance of buffer stocks for stabilizing agricultural prices in India. What are the challenges associated with the storage of buffer stock? Discuss.(2024)
- Explain therole of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India.(2024)
- 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.(2023)
- What are the major challenges of Public Distribution System (PDS) in India? How can it be made effective and transparent?(2022)
- 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?(2021)
- What are the reformative steps taken by the Government to make food grain distribution system more effective?(2019)
- What do you mean by Minimum Support Price (MSP)? How will MSP rescue the farmers from the low income trap?(2018)
- Assess the role of National Horticulture Mission (NHM) in boosting the production, productivity and income of horticulture farms. How far has it succeeded in increasing the income of farmers?(2018)
- Explain various types of revolutions, took place in Agriculture after Independence in India. How these revolutions have helped in poverty alleviation and food security in India?(2017)
- 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).(2016)
- 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.(2015)
- 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.(2013)
- What are the different types of agriculture subsidies given to farmers at the national and state levels? Critically analyse the agriculture subsidy regime with the reference to the distortions created by it.(2013)
- India needs to strengthen measures to promote the pink revolution in food industry for better nutrition and health. Critically elucidate the statement. (2013)