Government Intervention

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What do you mean by agricultural marketing?

Q.

Write a short note on NABARD.

Q.

What is meant by 'Food For Work' Programme?

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Do you think various measures taken by the government to improve agricultural marketing are sufficient? Discuss.

Q.

In the chapter, 'commercialisation of agriculture' has been cited as a reason for the dismal state of farmers at the time of Independence.
In the context of the present time, do you think that such a concern over commercialisation of agriculture is justified?

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Mention some obstacles that hinder the mechanism of agricultural marketing and create a need for the government to interfere in this sector.

Q. What is budget line?

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'Agricultural marketing refers to the farmers' act of bringing their produce to the market for sale'. Is the statement correct?

Q. Distinguish between:

1. Desire and demand

2. Increase in demand and decrease in demand

3. Individual demand and market demand

4. Inferior goods and superior goods

Q.

How are credit and marketing significant for the progress of agriculture?

Q.

Point out any concerns in Indian agriculture.

Q. The issues of storage and transport that farmers face have to be resolved by .

1. Rural Infrastructure
2. Mandis
3. Cooperative Society
4. APMC

Q. Write notes on:
(a) Minimum support price
(b) Buffer stock
(c) Issue price
(d) Fair price shops

Q. Farmers are paid a pre-announced price by the government for their crops. It is called _______.

1. Issue price
2. Minimum Support Price
3. Invested price
4. Market price

Q. The Minimim Support Price refers to that has been fixed by the government.

1. equilibrium price
2. price floor
3. price ceiling
4. monopoly price

Q. The minimum assured price offered by the government to the farmers for the purchase of their output is called____________.

1. ceiling price.
2. equilibrium price.
3. support price.
4. market price.

Q. is a marketing board that oversees matters of agriculture marketing, and is set up by the State Governments.

1. NABARD
2. APMC
3. AMUL
4. GCMMF

Q. The general factors affecting the productivity (or efficiency) of workers are basically influenced by geographical and regional conditions.

1. true
2. false

Q. In India, absolute number of people employed in Agriculture had___________ from the period of independence.

1. increased
2. decreased
3. remained constant
4. nothing can be said

Q.

Which of the following is expected to improve the marketing system?

1. Regulated markets

2. Improvement in transportation

3. Minimum Support Price

4. All of these

Q. Ram : My corn harvest this year is poor.
Krishna : Don't worry. Price increases will compensate for the fall in quantity supplied.
Vinod : Climate affects crop yields. Some years are bad, others are good.
Madhur : The Government ought to guarantee that our income will not fall.
In the conversation the normative statement is made by ______________.

1. Ram
2. Krishna
3. Vinod
4. Madhur

Q. The government has reduced the Public Distribution System prices by _____________ % from July 2001.

1. 10
2. 20
3. 30
4. 50

Q. What are the problems of the functioning of ration shops?

Q. Minimum Support Price is related to the ________________.

1. Agricultural sector
2. Service sector
3. Industrial sector
4. None of the above

Q. Price mechanism functions under the control of a specific controlling agency in the economy.

1. True
2. False

Q.

Which of the following measures are adopted by the government of India to improve the system of agricultural marketing?

1. Minimum Support Price (MSP)

2. Maintenance of Buffer Stock.

3. All of the above

4. Public Distribution System (PDS)

Q. How the problems of distribution could be solved by an economy?