Q24. With reference to the organic food, consider the following.
1. The government is giving incentives to cultivators of organic food products under the National Horticulture Mission.
2. APEDA is the agency that provides the certification for the organic food products.
3. It uses minimal crop rotations growing the same single crop year after year on the same land.
4. Organic farming is labour intensive practice.
Select the correct answer using the codes given.
Q24. With reference to the organic food, consider the following.
1. The government is giving incentives to cultivators of organic food products under the National Horticulture Mission.
2. APEDA is the agency that provides the certification for the organic food products.
3. It uses minimal crop rotations growing the same single crop year after year on the same land.
4. Organic farming is labour intensive practice.
Select the correct answer using the codes given.
The correct option is A (a) Only 1, 2 and 4
The Government is promoting the production of organic crops, fruits and vegetables, etc through various schemes/ programmes under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), and Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), National Mission on Oilseeds & Oil Palm (NMOOP) and Network Project on Organic Farming of Indian Council of Agriculture Research. The government also promotes National Horticulture Mission (NHM), Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States (HMNEH), National Project on Management of Soil Health and Fertility (NPMSHF), National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF), and various schemes of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA). The government is giving incentives to cultivators of organic food products under the NHM.
Organic farmers use biological methods and management practices such as diversified crop rotations that improve soil quality while conventional farmers use synthetic chemicals. It uses minimal crop rotations growing the same single crop year after year on the same land.
Organic farming is based on labour intensive practices like manual weeding, using green manures and crop covers rather than synthetic fertilisers to build up soil
The Government is promoting the production of organic crops, fruits and vegetables, etc through various schemes/ programmes under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA), Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), and Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), National Mission on Oilseeds & Oil Palm (NMOOP) and Network Project on Organic Farming of Indian Council of Agriculture Research. The government also promotes National Horticulture Mission (NHM), Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States (HMNEH), National Project on Management of Soil Health and Fertility (NPMSHF), National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF), and various schemes of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA). The government is giving incentives to cultivators of organic food products under the NHM.
Organic farmers use biological methods and management practices such as diversified crop rotations that improve soil quality while conventional farmers use synthetic chemicals. It uses minimal crop rotations growing the same single crop year after year on the same land.
Organic farming is based on labour intensive practices like manual weeding, using green manures and crop covers rather than synthetic fertilisers to build up soil
