Agri allied sector

e-Gopala App is a comprehensive breed improvement marketplace and information portal for use of farmers.
The e-Gopala App will provide solutions for farmers:
-Managing livestock including buying and selling of disease-free germplasm in all forms (semen, embryos, etc.);
-Availability of quality breeding services (Artificial Insemination, veterinary first aid, vaccination, treatment etc.)
-Guiding farmers for animal nutrition, treatment of animals using appropriate ayurvedic medicine, veterinary medicine.
-Mechanism to send alerts (on due date for vaccination, pregnancy diagnosis, calving etc.) and inform farmers about various government schemes and campaigns in the area.

“Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana – A scheme to bring about Blue Revolution through sustainable and responsible development of fisheries sector in India”
-Scheme intends to address critical gaps in fish production and productivity, quality, technology, post-harvest infrastructure and management, modernization and strengthening of value chain, traceability, establishing a robust fisheries management framework and fishers’ welfare.
-It would also address issues like low productivity in inland Aquaculture, disease, sustainability of marine fisheries, sanitary and phyto-sanitary matters that impact the competitiveness of India’s exports along with global bench marking.
Statement 1 is incorrect. The PMMSY will be implemented as an umbrella scheme with two separate Components namely Central Sector Scheme (CS) and Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS).
The funding pattern for CSS: 60% Central share and 40% State share, 90% Central share in North Eastern & Himalayan States.
Statement 2 is correct. For optimal outcomes, ‘Cluster or area-based approach’ would be followed with requisite forward and backward linkages and end to end solutions. Suitable linkages and convergence will be fostered with other centre and state government schemes wherever feasible.

Statement 1 is correct. Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) aims for development and conservation of indigenous breeds through selective breeding in the breeding tract and genetic upgradation of nondescript bovine population.
The scheme comprises of two components namely National Programme for Bovine Breeding (NPBB) and National Mission on Bovine Productivity (NMBP).
Statement 2 is correct. Rashtriya Gokul Mission components:
-Integrated cattle development centres ‘Gokul Grams’ to develop indigenous breeds including upto 40% nondescript breeds.
-Establishment of Field Performance Recording (FPR) in the breeding tract.
-Implementation of Pedigree Selection Programme for the Indigenous Breeds with large population.
-Establishment of Breeder’s Societies: Gopalan Sangh.
-Distribution of disease free high genetic merit bulls for natural service.
-Incentive to farmers maintaining elite animals of indigenous breeds.
-Award to Farmers (Gopal Ratna) and Breeders Societies (Kamadhenu)
Statement 3 is correct. Rashtriya Gokul Mission is implemented through the State Implementing Agency (SIA viz. Livestock Development Boards).

Milk production in India.
•India continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world.
•Milk production in the country was 187.7 million tonnes in 2018-19 and registered
a growth rate of 6.5 per cent over the previous year.
•The per capita availability of milk has reached a level of 394 grams per day during
2018-19.

The Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) aims to enhance fish production to 220 lakh metric tons by 2024-25 from 137.58 lakh metric tons in 2018-19 at an average annual growth rate of about 9%.•The Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Giriraj
Singh, said the ambitious scheme will result in doubling export earnings to Rs.1,00,000 crore and generate about 55 lakhs direct and indirect employment opportunities in fisheries sector over a period of next five years.
•Dedicating the PMMSY to fishers, fish farmers, fish workers, fish vendors and other stakeholders associated with the fisheries sector, Shri Giriraj Singh said that insurance coverage for fishing vessels is being introduced for the first time.
•The PMMSY will be implemented over a period of 5 years from FY 2020-21 to FY 2024-25 in all States/Union Territories.
•The Fisheries Minister said that about 42% of the total estimated investment of the PMMSY is earmarked for creation and upgradation of fisheries infrastructure facilities.
•Focus areas include Fishing Harbours and Landing Centers, Post-harvest and Cold
Chain Infrastructure, Fish Markets and Marketing Infrastructure, Integrated
Modern Coastal Fishing Villages and Development of Deep-sea Fishing.
•Besides creating critical fisheries infrastructure by attracting private investments in fisheries sector, the scheme plans to reduce post-harvest losses from the present high of 25% to about 10% by modernizing and strengthening value chain.
•Under the Swath Sagar plan, activities envisaged with a view to modernize the fisheries sector include promotion of Bio-toilets, Insurance coverage for fishing vessels, Fisheries Management Plans, E-Trading/Marketing, Fishers and resources survey and creation of National IT-based databases.

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has flagged off “Apiary on Wheels”.
• Apiary on Wheels is a unique concept designed by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) for the easy upkeep and migration of Bee Boxes having live Bee colonies.
• It is a holistic approach to address the challenges faced by the beekeepers.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Government has constituted Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog by a resolution in February, 2019 under Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

Statement 2 is correct. The Aayog is a high-powered permanent apex advisory body with mandate to help the Central Government to develop appropriate programmes for conservation, sustainable development and genetic upgradation of Indigenous breeds of cows.

The Aayog is to review existing laws, policies as well as suggest measures for optimum economic utilization of cow wealth for enhanced production and productivity, leading to higher farm income and better quality of life for the dairy farmers.

It also aims at transmission and application of improved technology and management practices at the farmers’ doorstep through coordination with dairy cooperatives, farmer producer companies and dairy industry as well as research institutions.
# Recently, Gausatva Kavach, a chip made of cow dung manufactured by Rajkot-based
Shrijee Gaushala, was unveiled by Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA) chairman and claimed that it reduces radiation from mobile handsets and it will be a safeguard against diseases.

The KVIC’s Honey Mission aims to create an end-to-end implementation framework for beekeeping skill development, which provides employment opportunities and income generation to agriculturists, beekeepers rural & urban unemployed youth.

–Enforce nationally acceptable standards of Good Beekeeping Practices (GPB) in the country.

–Develop a network of quality master trainers in the field of beekeeping for imparting Good Beekeeping / Apicultural Practices.

–Offer a passage for overseas market for hive products.

–Enable pathways from novice beekeepers to viable commercial beekeeping by handholding to credit linkages.

–Promote convergence and co-ordination between all the stakeholders of beekeeping in India.

Farm forestry is a term applied to the process under which farmers grow trees for commercial and non-commercial purposes on their farm lands.
• Forest departments of various states distribute seedlings of trees free of cost to small and medium farmers.
• Several lands such as the margins of agricultural fields, grasslands and pastures, land around homes and cow sheds may be used for raising trees under non-commercial farm forestry.

In an effort to help aquaculture farmers, the Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fisheries University has developed a new feed that will aid in the growth of the vannamei shrimp and the tilapia fish.

•Using biofloc, a new technology that obviates the need for the use of plankton in aquaculture, the feed, called Nutrifloc, and has been developed.
• “We balance the carbon-nitrogen ratio in the water due to which certain microbes develop. These microbes help maintain the quality of the water and reduce formation of sludge”.
• The technology reduces the use of water, which earlier had to be changed on a regular basis, brings down power consumption and cuts the cost of feed.
• With the adoption of the technology, aquaculture can be done indoors as well since sunlight would be required only for those using plankton.