Question

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

• A. $1$ only
• B. $2$ and $3$ only
• C. $1$ and $2$ only
• D. $1,2$ and $3$

Answer 1

The correct option is D $1,2$ and $3$

This was launched in $2012$ as part of Rashtriye Krishi Vikas Yojana under which free 'kits' are made available to the farmers (owning upto $2$ hectares farm land).