RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Agricultural marketing is a process that involves functions of__.

• Storage

• Distribution

• Processing

• All the above

During 2007-12, agriculture output has grown at__.

• 3%

• 3.2%

• 2%

NABARD was set up in __.

• 1892

• 1952

• 1982

__ is a women-oriented community based poverty reduction programme implemented in Kerala.

• TANWA

• Kudumbashree

• RRB

__ is an alternative marketing channel operated in Punjab

• Hadaspar Mandi

• Apni Mandi

• Rythu Bazars

___ credit provisions are referred to as micro-credit programmes.

• RRB

• SHG

• Cooperatives

How did famines became events of the past?

• Improved literacy rate

• Increased Rainfall

• Maintenance of Buffer stock

TANWA is a project initiated in TamilNadu to train women in __.

• Industrial techniques

• Household techniques

• Agricultural techniques

By March end 2003, more than __ SHGs had reportedly been credit linked.

• 7 lakhs

• 8 lakhs

• 9 lakhs

__ is an assurance to the farmers that a minimum price will be fixed by the government to purchase farmers produce.

• Maximum support price

• Minimum support price

• Maximum retail price