Farm Mechanisation 2 Flashcards by Debangana Brahma

Aim of Agri Export policy is to double exports from?

Double Agri Exports: from $30 - $60 billion by 2022

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India’s largest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) under SECI, MoNRE, is located in?

Rajnandgaon, Chattisgarh

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India’s largest solar tree is located in? It is by?

Durgapur
By CSIR-CMERI

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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

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World’s Largest Solar Power Plant is called, it’s located in?

Bhadla Solar Park
Rajasthan

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India’s Largest Hybrid Renewable Energy Park is in?

Kutch, Gujarat

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2nd largest solar park in India?

Shakti Sithala Solar Power Plant,
Tumakuru Karnataka

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3rd largest solar park in India?

Ultra Mega Solar Park
Kurnool, AP

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OSOWOG was launched whe and where?

in 2018
at the 1st ISA Assembly

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Share of total primary energy coming from biomass is? Share of India’s population depending on it?

32%
>70%

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National Policy for Management of Crop Residue was launched in?

2014

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Estimated crop residue generated annually? Which state is the highest generator?

500 Mt
UP, followed by Punjab

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When was the Crop Residue Management scheme for North India launched?

2018-19

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Financial Assistance to farmers for purchasing machinery under Crop Residue Management Scheme is?

50%

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Financial Assistance to Cooperative Societies, FPOs and Panchayats for establishing CHCs under Crop Residue Management Scheme is?

80%

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When was The Crop Residue Management Scheme for North India, merged with SMAM then RKVY?

2022

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Target year for blending 20% ethanol in petrol in National Policy on Biofuels

2025

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National Policy on Biofuels was launched in?

2018

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1st Gen biofuels use?

food sources like sugar, starch, vegetable oil

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2nd generation Biofuels use?

Non-food crops like stems, husks
or Municipal Solid Waste

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3rd Gen Biofuels use?

micro-organisms like algae

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4th Gen biofuels are characterised by?

They are carbon negative
GMO crops with higher carbon intake —2nd gen tech—> Fuel—> geo-sequestered

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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

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Capacity of Traditional Storage type and improved storage type?

T = 1-50 tonnes
I = 1.5-150 tonnes

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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

Production linked incentive scheme for food processing was launched in?

2021

To improve food grain storage, especially in hilly & remote areas, the govt is exploring the use of ____ a mobile storage unit, in collab with World Food Programme

Flospan | Installed in 6 states

Warehousing development and regulation act was enacted in?

2007

2nd generation ethanol has the same chemical properties as?

Conventional ethanol

2nd gen ethanol is ____ than 1st gen and has the potential to be carbon ____

Cleaner Neutral

In order to boost ethanol production, govt has launched PM ____ yojana

PM Ji-Van Yojana (March 2019-2029) | Jaiv IndhanVatavaran Anukool Fasal Awashesh Nivaran

1st 2G ethanol plant under PM Ji-Van Yojana was launched in 2022 by?

Indian Oil (IOC) - Panipat, Haryana

Women Farmer's Day & National Farmer's Day, are on?

WFD: 15th Oct NFD: 23rd Dec

Farm Mechanisation 2 Flashcards

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