With reference to Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion, which of

Question

With reference to Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion, which of the following statements is/are correct?This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.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 microirrigation equipment.Select the correct answer using the code given below.

Accepted Answer

The statement 1 is correct. The Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies in an integrated manner with cluster approach.Statement 2 is also correct. Millets are mainly grown in regions of low annual rainfall and poor arid soil. It is poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers, who cannot afford costly irrigation practices, depend on cultivation of millets. Hence these farmers benefit from the scheme and have a larger stake in this scheme.Statement 3 is not correct. There is no such provision of encouraging farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation.