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Questions
1) Considering the harmful impacts of pesticide usage, minimizing its use should have become a national priority. In light of the statement, highlight the harmful impacts of excessive usage of pesticides and suggest some measures to control it.
2) Comment on the need for Public-private partnerships in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) concerning sanitation.
Answer 1
Nice Answer . You can also mention uses and benefits of precision farming in suggestion and related recent gov measures.
Excellent answer! Nothing much to improve here. Like already suggested, You can mention natural farming, precision farming and measures like fertigation to cut down use of pesticides. A high quality answer!
Answer 2
Apt answer
Que 1
Great answer! Content is good, though the balance can be improved a bit.
Good that You have highlighted the measures taken by the Government, but You can cut it short. Instead focus more on measures required. Also title sub-sections accordingly (write ‘suggested measures’ rather than ‘way forward’). Some more measures like natural farming, precision farming techniques etc. can be added.
Overall nice answer!
I will keep the points in mind. Thanks
Everything is upto the mark!!
just one little thing, I am not sure whether to use it or not, but last month there was an article in newspaper that showed that nano urea doesn’t hold any advantage over the traditional fertiliser. Might wanna consider that.
Its not have full advantage but can be consider as alternative with further researches
You can totally avoid explaining about Fertilisers.As question is “Harmful impact of pesticides and measures to be taken”.
Like nano urea can be replaced by neem coated urea.
Good answer! Content is appropriate, but I think, LHI and ISC should be presented as examples. So first provide benefits of PPP like expertise, funding, community mobilization etc. and quote these as examples. Other things look good!
Please review and let me know my mistakes
Good Answer, but try to keep the benefits part short as they have not asked for it in the question, you can then focus on adding more content in the other two parts you have written.
Right! I’ll keep that in mind. Thanku for the review
Good answer! You should emphasise the impact on human health, it has not come out properly. The point regarding upper limit on usage, elaborate it a bit more, like limiting usage at an individual farmer level? I feel this would be difficult to monitor. Some suggestions mentioned in the reference article can be mentioned. Also add precision farming techniques like fertigation can be provided.
Excellent answer! In the map, mention the metric being represented, like you have mention %, is it % share of pan India consumption, or % of farmers that use (or do not use) pesticides. Rest is awesome!
Please review my answer